Alibaba Group Holding Limited, (BABA) through its subsidiaries, operates as an online and mobile commerce company in the People’s Republic of China and internationally.
Linnea Deeds has joined Braumiller Consulting Group as the Director of Educational Services. Linnea with be focusing her efforts on developing educational opportunities for various clients and organizations.
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.
Within today’s ever changing international trade environment companies face a multitude of challenges when it comes to their supply-chain management (“SCM”) and how it impacts operations.
On January 16, 2015, the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) adopted recent findings in the ongoing countervailing duty cases between China and the U.S.
The Importer Security Filing (ISF) rule, also known as ISF 10+2, relates to import cargo coming into the U.S. via ocean vessel. The rule states that an ISF Importer, or their agent, must electronically submit certain advance cargo information to Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) before the goods arrive into the U.S. It is important to note that bulk cargo is not subject to this rule.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has updated its Focused Assessment (FA) and audit guidelines for the first time since 2003. FAs assess an importer’s internal controls and identify possible issues to ensure compliance with Customs law and regulations.
Picture this: Several years ago, after performing the typical due diligence on locating and choosing a distributor in Russia, you proceed to move forward.
On October 8, 2014 BIS announced that it issued a penalty of $750,000 against Wind River Systems, a subsidiary of Intel, for the unlawful exportation of encryption software products to foreign government end-users and to organizations on the BIS Entity List.
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.
Amidst the social and political turbulence in Mexico, there is new Energy Reform legislation.
On September 8th, 2014 the Court of International Trade dismissed an importer’s challenge to CBP’s liquidation of entries subject to anti-dumping duties. The importer claimed
Importers and filers have one main goal, to get the shipments from the point of sale/manufacture to the buyer with as little hassle, and as
By Paul Fudacz, Senior Attorney Section XVI of the HTS is comprised of Chapters 84 and 85 and respectively covers “Nuclear Reactors, Boilers, Machinery, Mechanical
By Jennifer Horvath, Associate Attorney Changes to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Customs or CBP) Focused Assessment program are almost here. Customs announced earlier
By Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel I previously wrote about changes to the US Munitions List (USML) in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)
By Adrienne Braumiller, Partner The Case of Trek Leather, Inc. (decided September 16, 2014) If you’ve ever heard the phrase, “it’s just business, nothing personal,”
T’was six months before Christmas and all through the land companies are stirring preparing for the busy season to come. What will be the toy
By Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel Originally all satellites, whether military, commercial, or remote-sensing were subject to controls under Cat. XV of the US Munitions
By Brenda Cordova, Mexico Attorney On December 11, 2013, the Mexican government published its new and amended Ley del Impuesto al Valor Agregado (Value Added
Braumiller Law Group PLLC, is an international
trade law firm based in Dallas, TX, U.S.A. Braumiller
Law Group provides legal services related to
international trade and Customs regulations.
This website is a resource of general information. The content provided is not to be considered as legal advice and is not intended to create an attorney-client relationship