Dec 12 2019 / Cayman News Service (CNS): With over 40% of all packages coming into the Cayman Islands without the proper documentation, customs officials are urging the public to do what they can to help get all parcels cleared in time for the holiday season. To avoid delays, Customs and Border Control said they…
DetailsBy Zafar Bhutta Dec 11 2019 / The Express Tribune ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, being a signatory to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has decided to introduce a bill for creating a single window in order to facilitate cross-border trade. Pakistan has signed WTO’s Agreement on Trade Facilitation and has notified the establishment of Pakistan Single Window (PSW)…
DetailsDec 9 2019 / Lexology Sanctions Contractual Provisions Were Insufficient to Avoid OFAC Liability On November 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced a $210,600 settlement agreement with Florida-based Apollo Aviation Group, LLC (“Apollo Aviation”) to resolve 12 apparent violations of OFAC’s Sudan Sanctions Regulations (“SSR”).[1] OFAC…
DetailsMore than 50% of employees transferred to the new State Customs Service staff Dec 8 2019 / 112 International From the beginning of Sunday, December 8, a new State Customs Service officially began to function in Ukraine. This was announced by the chairman of the service Maksym Nefedov on Facebook. “Today at 00:00 the…
DetailsBy Rick Dandes Dec 7 2019 / The daily item Once a Valley business decides to enter the global export marketplace, it needs experts like Noelle Long to help them navigate the murky, sometimes choppy waters of international customs regulations, documents, and tariffs. Long, program director for the SEDA-Council of Governments Export Development Program, works with the state to provide…
DetailsBy Chris Gillis Dec6 2019 / American Shipper Agriculture shippers and forwarders work with CBP and Census in an effort to eliminate $5,000-$10,000 penalties for minor export data filing errors in the Automated Export System. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have taken to calling penalties for minor export information filing mistakes in the Automated…
DetailsBy Richard Clayton, Chief Correspondent Dec 6 2019 / Lloyd’s loading List Logistics businesses have come late to the digital era. The sector is plagued with legacy systems and processes politely described by external observers as “out-dated”. Senior management is split between those who understand the tremendous potential of analysing customer data and those who…
DetailsBy Alphea Saunders Dec 6 2019 / Jamaica Observer THE long-awaited parliamentary review of the Customs Act (2019) began yesterday with the first meeting of a 13-member joint select committee, but it will be another month before the deliberations truly get under way. The committee has agreed to give a wide cross section of stakeholders,…
DetailsBy Will Waters Dec 5 2019 / Llyod’s Loading Lists Two customs brokers have been charged over Australia’s largest ever seizure of the drug methamphetamine – after A$1 billion (US$680 million) of the drug was found hidden inside speakers shipped as ocean freight from Thailand to Melbourne. More than six months after the drugs were…
DetailsBy Hima Bindhu Dec 5 2019 / Grain Mart News The successful export or import of a shipment is dependent on several entities. No matter how big or small a shipment is, two entities stand out due to the importance of their roles in a shipment. The two entities are clearing agents and freight forwarders.…
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