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The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has adopted a new administrative enforcement approach for resolving export control violations. BIS anticipates it will result in the imposition of substantially higher monetary penalties for egregious cases, while also providing for non-monetary resolutions of less serious ones. It was implemented to address evasions of the ever-growing…
A Los Angeles County clothing brand has agreed to plead guilty to submitting fake customs forms to skirt almost $6.4 million in tariffs and to doing business with a woman who has ties to the Sinaloa drug cartel, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Ghacham Inc. and a company executive, Mohamed Daoud Ghacham, 38, will both plead…
CONCORD – Intertech Trading Corporation, an Atkinson, New Hampshire-based laboratory equipment distributor, pleaded guilty in federal court to 14 felony counts of failure to file export information on shipments to Russia and Ukraine, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.             According to court documents and statements made in court, between 2015 and 2019, Intertech exported…
Media note from the U.S. Department of State On August 10, 2022, the U.S. Department of State published a Federal Register notice of ten persons statutorily debarred for having been convicted of violating, or conspiring to violate, the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751, et seq.).  This action, pursuant to section 127.7(b) of the International…
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) went into effect on June 21, 2022. The UFLPA has three key provisions: It creates a rebuttable presumption that all items produced, in whole or in part, in the Xinjiang region of China are made with forced labor. It requires Customs and Border Protection to create an…
CBP has released a CTPAT Trade Compliance Handbook. This handbook was released in July 2022. Below are the 6 areas covered in the handbook including considerations for forced labor and the updated CTPAT Trade Compliance Questionnaire. INTRODUCTION AND PROGRAM MODERNIZATION PROGRAM DESCRIPTION AND REQUIREMENTS APPLICATION, PROCESSING, AND ACCEPTANCE PROGRAM CONTINUATION REQUIREMENTS REVOCATION PROCEDURES APPENDIX Click…
Buy American Rules Update There have been fairly significant changes to the Buy American rules under both the Federal Acquisition Regulation, or FAR, and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, or DFARS. They relate to when a product qualifies as a domestic end product, and thereby is eligible for the Buy American bidding preference….
The Federal Trade Commission’s Made in the USA Rules A notice appeared in the May 19th Federal Register detailing a consent agreement reached with a company called Lions Not Sheep over what the Federal Trade Commission alleged were false and misleading statements regarding the origin of their products. In the following transcript,…
Sanctions imposed on Russia by the BIS The February 24 sanctions imposed on Russia by the BIS have put in place a vastly expanded definition of the foreign-direct product rule, which will pose significant compliance challenges. In the following transcript George Thompson details which products are affected by the new rule and how…
The Unverified List The Commerce Department’s listing of foreign companies subject to restrictions on all items included in the Export Administration Regulations, has received increased attention as a result of the recent addition of 33 Chinese industrial and technology companies to the list. The following transcript from George Thompson‘s video, explains what the Unverified…