Saudi Arabia recently announced new customs duty exemptions for certain imports, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council reported Oct. 7. Saudi Arabia will exempt duties on all imported “personal shipments” worth less than $267, including the shipping charges, and will impose a standard 15% value-added tax rate on all imports “of greater values,” HKTDC said. The country also clarified some shipping obligations by saying the transport carrier is responsible for shipment and customs clearance, “but the customer must communicate with the carrier to complete the shipment clearance procedures.” The carrier’s customs broker must prepare the declaration and is required to “provide the customer with a copy of the customs declaration showing all duties and taxes imposed,” the report said.
A customs broker exam taker who is appealing his failing score is asking the Court of International Trade to overturn CBP’s denial of credit for seven questions from the April 2018 test. In a brief filed Oct. 1, Byungmin Chae says CBP erroneously graded his customs broker exam, denying him a broker license on its mistaken finding that he did not score 75 percent or higher.
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Shine Shipping and Shine International (Shine), companies that arrange for the shipment of goods with vessel operating carriers, were found not to be directly liable for the shipment of counterfeit Nike footwear by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in a Sept. 30 opinion (Nike, Inc. v. B&H Customs Services, Inc., et al., S.D.N.Y. #20-01214).
Shine Shipping and Shine International (Shine), companies that arrange for the shipment of goods with vessel operating carriers, were found not to be directly liable for the shipment of counterfeit Nike footwear by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in a Sept. 30 opinion (Nike, Inc. v. B&H Customs Services, Inc., et al., S.D.N.Y. #20-01214).
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America has brought on Lenny Feldman as its general counsel and Ashley Craig as its transportation and logistics counsel, it announced in an email. Feldman is a senior member of Sandler Travis who serves on the firm's operating committee; Craig is a partner at Venable working as co-chair of his firm's International Trade Group.
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America has brought on Lenny Feldman as its general counsel and Ashley Craig as its transportation and logistics counsel, it announced in an email. Feldman is a senior member of Sandler Travis who serves on the firm's operating committee; Craig is a partner at Venable working as co-chair of his firm's International Trade Group.
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America has brought on Lenny Feldman as its general counsel and Ashley Craig as its transportation and logistics counsel, it announced in an email. Feldman is a senior member of Sandler Travis who serves on the firm's operating committee; Craig is a partner at Venable working as co-chair of his firm's International Trade Group.
Importers can't make changes to the amount of antidumping or countervailing duties deducted from the transaction value even if there is a difference between the original cash deposit amount and the actual amount subsequently assessed on Delivered Duty Paid entries, CBP said in a May 26 ruling recently released by the agency. The ruling is a result of an internal advice request from the Industrial and Manufacturing Materials Center of Excellence and Expertise about AD/CV duties on entries of softwood lumber, CBP said. The ruling addresses multiple questions involving how and when such AD/CV duties can be deducted from the value based on a "representative entry."
Although continuing the treatment of customs brokers' pass-throughs to CBP in bankruptcy is not controversial, lawmakers say, the bill that would make this treatment permanent has a ways to go to be able to get a vote before the temporary protection expires.