Trade Law Daily is providing readers with the top stories from last week, in case you missed them. All articles can be found by searching on the title or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.
A disruption involving help desk services for customs business numbers used by Canadian importers and customs brokers is leading to delays and increased storage fees, the Canadian Society of Customs Brokers said in a letter to the government this week. The group urged the Canada Revenue Agency and the Canada Border Services Agency to fix the issue, saying the disruption is causing days worth of delays for routine procedures that previously took minutes.
A Kelley Drye attorney, who used to be part of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force due to his role at the U.S. Trade Representative's Office of Labor Affairs, said the recent 26 additions to the FLETF's Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act entity list are significant because they are not companies directly employing Uyghurs harvesting cotton or in fabric mills or cut and sew operations.
The U.S. told the Court of International Trade on May 22 that a corrected notice of denial of a customs broker license has been sent to a Georgia woman. The woman is suing the government to contest six questions on the licensing exam after scoring 73.75% on it, just short of the 75% or above she needed to pass (see 2402160040) (Skeeter-Jo Stoute-Francois v. U.S., CIT # 24-00046).
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of May 6-12:
General Motors' “about-face” decision to stop selling driver data from OnStar-equipped vehicles, shortly after a March New York Times article that “exposed its deficient privacy practices,” supports the assertion that “its customers were not aware of GM’s surreptitious data collection and sharing,” alleged a class action (docket 4:24-cv-11221) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Flint.
The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a new advisory this week to alert industry about the ways Iran-backed terrorist organizations are illegally circumventing or using the international financial system to raise, move and spend money. The advisory also includes a list of red flags to help banks and other financial institutions catch suspicious activity that may be linked to those groups.
The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated May 6 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
Lowe’s embedded spy tracking pixels in marketing emails to Arizona residents to monitor the behavior of those who subscribed to its email list, alleged a privacy class action (docket 2:24-cv-01030) against the home improvement retailer and Salesforce Sunday in U.S. District Court for Arizona.