Most attention and articles about Certificates of Origin concentrate on completion and accuracy of free trade agreement (FTA) certificates of origin for imports into the U.S. for NAFTA, Korea Free Trade, etc.
By: Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel I have sometimes joked about “Newton’s Law of Export-Import” that “whatever goes out comes back.” Often a company becomes
By: Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel January 16, 2016 was Implementation Day for reduced international sanctions with Iran. Now you can freely carry on trade with
By: Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel Let us start by observing that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has not been ratified by the United States and
By: Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel Those who deal with both the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR) have undoubtedly
By: Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel “Customs business” is defined in Part 111.1 of the Customs Regulations as “those activities involving transactions with CBP concerning
By: Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel A number of years ago I attended a 2-day workshop conducted by U.S. Customs. The agency was discontinuing the
The Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) allows articles to be imported into the U.S. free of duty and Merchandise Processing Fees.
Export Control Reform has been with us for more than a year. As a result, export compliance personnel affected by the change must make some significant changes to how they handle exports and process licenses.
Early in my career I took a position as Import Manager at Hughes Aircraft Company, an aerospace company in California. Hughes had imported a small natural diamond window (the size of a penny), from the Netherlands for use in a spacecraft.
By Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel I previously wrote about changes to the US Munitions List (USML) in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)
By Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel Originally all satellites, whether military, commercial, or remote-sensing were subject to controls under Cat. XV of the US Munitions
By Bruce H. Leeds, Senior Counsel Let’s say you have been asked on short notice to classify for export control purposes a military aircraft component
By Bruce Leeds, Senior Counsel July 1st not only marks the mid-point of the year, but is also the effective date of round three of
The Raytheon Company recently entered into a consent agreement with the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) of the Department of State settling allegations that
Acme Electronics (Acme) is a medium-sized company in the U.S. that makes products (primarily circuit board assemblies and wiring harnesses) used in commercial and military
Forty years ago the way an importer cleared Customs was to prepare and file a CF3461 entry at the port of entry to obtain release,
Category XI of the U.S. Munitions List (USML) controls a broad range of military electronics, placing them under the export controls enumerated in the International
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