The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices for Nov. 6 (note that some may also be given separate headlines):
BALTIMORE -- CBP’s rewrite of its Part 111 customs broker regulations is again on hold until the agency completes regulatory changes required for implementation of the Automated Commercial Environment, said CBP Assistant Commissioner Brenda Smith at the CBP East Coast Trade Symposium on Nov. 4. The effort on broker regulations involves many of the same resources as the ACE regulatory changes, currently CBP’s top priority, meaning a proposed rule on Part 111 is at least six months away, she said.
Chris Reynolds and Andre LaMorgia, previously with OHL, recently founded a new customs consultancy and brokerage named Cardinal Trade Associates in Philadelphia (here). At OHL, Reynolds was senior manager of trade services and LaMorgia was senior trade compliance analyst.
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices for Nov. 4 (note that some may also be given separate headlines):
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., will reintroduce do-not-track legislation that would give American consumers the power to tell companies, including data brokers, that they don't want their information collected. He announced it during a Senate Privacy Subcommittee hearing on whether information held by data brokers is secure.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., will reintroduce do-not-track legislation that would give American consumers the power to tell companies, including data brokers, that they don't want their information collected. He announced it during a Senate Privacy Subcommittee hearing on whether information held by data brokers is secure.
BALTIMORE -- As efforts to facilitate trade and enhance border security continue into the future, a key factor in their success will be the trade industry’s and the government’s willingness to invest resources, said government and industry officials during a panel discussion at CBP’s East Coast Trade Symposium on Nov. 4. Continued automation and international harmonization will require a commitment from industry and the government to change business practices and educate stakeholders, they said.
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The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America named Ken Bargteil, who recently retired from Kuehne + Nagel (see 1510060056), as chancellor of the NCBFAA Educational Institute, the NCBFAA said (here).
The Bureau of Industry and Security is still striving to create a single export licensing agency with harmonized applications and terms in the coming years, but that effort won’t happen during the Obama administration, said Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Kevin Wolf, at the 2015 BIS Update conference on Nov. 2. BIS officials have repeatedly touted the merits of that harmonization (see 1507220021), claiming existing differences between the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations create an arbitrary burden on traders.