Expeditors Newsflash

On March 20, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued guidance for industry regarding the definition of “small business” under Title 21 of

On March 26, 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued changes to the Interim Guidance for Filing TFTEA Drawback Claims.

On March 23, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Omnibus Spending Bill to fund the federal government, which contains provisions to renew the

On March 20, 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced in a Federal Register notice the eBond test program would extend until further

HM Revenue & Customs in the United Kingdom published a news article on its website providing an update regarding the intended implementation of the new

On March 23, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump approved modifications to the Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs to allow exemptions for several

On March 22, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum regarding the results of a Section 301 Investigation of “China’s Laws,

Michel Barnier (European Chief Negotiator) and David Davis (Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union) issued a joint press release in Brussels on

On March 19, 2018, the U.S. Senate confirmed Kevin McAleenan to be Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

On March 19, 2018, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published in the Federal Register, an interim final rule outlining

On March 14, 2018, the fourth World Customs Organization (WCO) Global Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Conference opened in Kampala, Uganda.

On March 15, 2018, the full text of the presidential proclamations for the steel and aluminum tariffs was published in the Federal Register. The

On March 10, 2018, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Robert Lighthizer, the European Union (EU) Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmstrom, and the

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a notice to its website announcing the April 2018 Customs Broker License Examination. CBP states that

On March 8, 2018, representatives of Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam,

On March 6, 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released its e-commerce strategy to address the increasing volume of imported small packages

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands has published a guide for the implementation of an Internal Compliance Program (ICP). An ICP in this

Between February 21 and 23, the World Customs Organization (WCO) held the 19^th Meeting of the SAFE Working Group in Brussels and finalized the 2018

On February 28, 2018, the European Commission published a draft agreement on the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union.

On March 1, 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced in Cargo Systems Messaging Service (CSMS) #18-000184 an update to the language in the

On February 28, 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a press release, marking the second anniversary of the Trade Facilitation and Trade