Export Compliance Daily is providing readers with the top stories for Feb. 8-12 in case you missed them. You can find any article by searching on the title or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.
Timothy Warren is Executive Managing Editor of Communications Daily. He previously led the International Trade Today editorial team from the time it was purchased by Warren Communications News in 2012 through the launch of Export Compliance Daily and Trade Law Daily. Tim is a 2005 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and lives in Maryland with his wife and three kids.
Export Compliance Daily is providing readers with the top stories for Feb. 8-12 in case you missed them. You can find any article by searching on the title or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.
International Trade Today is providing readers with the top stories from Feb. 8-12 in case they were missed. All articles can be found by searching on the titles or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.
CBP is now operating under an “informed compliance umbrella” related to penalties over faulty “transportation data” included on Automated Export System filings, said Jim Swanson, director of the Cargo and Security Controls Division, for Cargo and Conveyance Security, CBP Office of Field Operations. Swanson, who spoke Feb. 10 during a National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones virtual conference, mentioned discrepancies with filed dates and ports as things CBP would like to see corrected rather than penalized. A set of penalty mitigation guidelines for failure to comply with Foreign Trade Regulations was updated in September.
CBP posted answers to set of frequently asked questions Feb. 12 about the withhold release order aimed at goods produced using forced labor in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. The Jan. 13 WRO applies to cotton and tomato products produced in China’s Xinjiang province (see 2101130053). The FAQs add some more details for how CBP will be administering the regional WRO, which elicited some logistical questions, given the breadth of order and the number of goods it covers.
CBP's planned addition of partner government agency data functionality for foreign-trade zones (see 1702150037) has moved to the “back burner,” due to automation funding questions, said Jim Swanson, director of the Cargo and Security Controls Division, for Cargo and Conveyance Security, CBP Office of Field Operations. CBP has “reduced funds for programming this year and as a result we are working with retained funds and other funding, but we have our ongoing maintenance needs to continue to work, plus continuing changes that have to be programmed, and that comes out of the base budget for automation,” he said. “So we are not looking at taking on a lot of new causes this year unless they come with a funding package associated with it.” Swanson spoke Feb. 10 during a National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones virtual conference.
Export Compliance Daily is providing readers with the top stories for Feb. 1-5 in case you missed them. You can find any article by searching on the title or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.
CBP is expected to officially allow for the use of foreign-trade zones for goods stopped under a withhold release order while an importer works to prove forced labor was not involved in making the imported product, said Christopher Smith, a trade adviser in the Customs Coordination Center for North America for IKEA Purchasing Services. Smith, also a National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones board member, spoke Feb. 9 during a NAFTZ virtual conference. “We believe we are very close to getting a letter in hand allowing for the use of zones to store product while a company will be able to argue whether or not there is forced labor associated with that product associated with a WRO detention,” he said.
International Trade Today is providing readers with the top stories from Feb. 1-5 in case they were missed. All articles can be found by searching on the titles or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.
A fee paid by BMW of North America to its parent company in Germany to help negotiate prices for car parts from North American vendors is not dutiable under transaction value, CBP said in a newly released ruling dated Dec. 15. BMW's lawyer at Lamb & Lerch asked CBP about the dutiability of the fee.
CBP will allow for an additional day for filing entries that were due on Feb. 1 or 2 at the Ports of JFK and New York/Newark, acting Port Director Edward Fox said in an emailed notice. “As a result of this situation, we are extending one (1) additional day without penalty for any late filed entry summaries and payments of duties that were due on these days in the Ports of JFK and New York/Newark,” he said.