By Bruce Leeds, BLG Senior Counsel Export Control Reform has been underway since 2009. The process has been to revise the U.S. Munitions List (USML)
By Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group On March 22, the President announced that the United States will be imposing special duties on certain
By Bruce Leeds, Senior Of Counsel, Braumiller Law Group Let’s assume for example, that The Giant Corporation, an organization incorporated under the laws of the
By Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel, Braumiller Law Group Congratulations, – you have now been given the responsibility for classifying products on the Commerce Control List
By Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel , Braumiller Law Group Let’s assume you are the export control person for Acme Electronics (Acme), a producer of high
By: Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel Heading 9813 in Subchapter XIII of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule contains the provisions for temporary imports under bond commonly referred
OK, here is the scenario: A U.S. baker wants to make birthday cakes outside the U.S. The baker provides cake mix, sugar, eggs, frosting and
If you are responsible for customs compliance at an importing company, or if you are a customs broker consulting with your clients, among of the
By: Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel In April of this year, the President signed the Trade Facilitation & Trade Enforcement Act of 2015. One of
By: Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel It is common these days for individuals and companies to store data in the “cloud”, which means that a
Most attention and articles about Certificates of Origin concentrate on completion and accuracy of free trade agreement (FTA) certificates of origin for imports into the U.S. for NAFTA, Korea Free Trade, etc.
By: Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel I have sometimes joked about “Newton’s Law of Export-Import” that “whatever goes out comes back.” Often a company becomes
By: Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel January 16, 2016 was Implementation Day for reduced international sanctions with Iran. Now you can freely carry on trade with
By: Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel Let us start by observing that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has not been ratified by the United States and
By: Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel Those who deal with both the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR) have undoubtedly
By: Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel “Customs business” is defined in Part 111.1 of the Customs Regulations as “those activities involving transactions with CBP concerning
By: Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel A number of years ago I attended a 2-day workshop conducted by U.S. Customs. The agency was discontinuing the
The Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) allows articles to be imported into the U.S. free of duty and Merchandise Processing Fees.
Export Control Reform has been with us for more than a year. As a result, export compliance personnel affected by the change must make some significant changes to how they handle exports and process licenses.
Early in my career I took a position as Import Manager at Hughes Aircraft Company, an aerospace company in California. Hughes had imported a small natural diamond window (the size of a penny), from the Netherlands for use in a spacecraft.