By: Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group
In a Federal Register Notice on Oct. 6, 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection published a 60-Day Notice and request for comments for a Global Business Identifier (GBI) Evaluative Proof of Concept (EPoC).
By: Bruce Leeds, Senior of Counsel
On Oct. 28, 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on continuing education for individually licensed customs brokers. After receiving comments and feedback from the trade, CBP published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on this proposal on Sept. 10, 2021.
By: Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel to Braumiller Law Group and George Alfonso, Of Counsel to Braumiller Law Group and President of Reigncore Lobbying
On behalf of our example, we’d like to introduce you to “Joe Compliance.” Imagine Joe Compliance is going through the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and notices license exemptions for Australia and the UK in Part 126.16 126.17.
By Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group Determining what export controls apply to semiconductor devices can be a challenging task. Most controls on semiconductor
By Bruce Leeds, Braumiller Law Group
Exporting to Russia is already a challenge. There are OFAC sanctions arising out of the Ukraine/Crimea situation, Military End User controls, and the usual export licensing requirements.
By Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group
A new year, a new administration, and new trade initiatives. Well…at least 2 out of 3. Let’s take a look at some import and Customs subjects, then turn to export controls.
By Bruce H. Leeds, Senior of Counsel, Braumiller Law Group
In a Federal Register Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, dated Oct. 28, 2020, U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) proposed a program for continuing education for licensed individual customs brokers.
By: Bruce H. Leeds Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group
Colleges and universities – Ivy covered buildings with students and faculty engaged in academic pursuits. Colleges and universities – Hotbeds of export control concerns. What?? The halls of academia have increasingly become involved with export control issues. There are several ways that universities are potentially affected …
By: Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group Determining the country of origin of imported articles has become increasingly important in recent years. There
By: Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group The US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) replaces NAFTA and goes into effect on July 1 of this year. One
By: Bruce Leeds, Of Counsel, Braumiller Law Group The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will replace NAFTA and likely go into effect by Jan. 1, 2021.
By: Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group On Jan. 1, 2020 the Japan-United States Free Trade Agreement went into effect. The agreement provides duty-free,
By: Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group Section 301 duties on French merchandise? How can that be? Doesn’t Section 301 only apply to China?
By: Bruce Leeds, Of Counsel, Braumiller Law Group Section 232? Doesn’t that apply to duties on aluminum and steel? Yes – but it could soon
By: Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group On June 24th of this year, FedEx filed a suit against the Department of Commerce “seeking to
By: Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group The Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS) of the Department of Commerce announced that it was adding
By: Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group In a Federal Register Notice dated April 12, 2019, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR)
By: Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group CBP Form 5106 is used to identify the importer of record to U.S. Customs & Border Protection
By: Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group, PLLC 2018 saw a number of administrative and legislative changes to U.S. export controls. Many of them
By Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group If you go to the Trade tab at CBP.gov one of the featured items on the menu