International Trade Compliance Consultants and The Value Proposition
Maximizing value is crucial when companies contemplate bringing on external support for any organizational function. While a company may consider several value categories, this article explores five primary categories – productivity, profitability, image, experience, and convenience. By maintaining a value proposition mindset when requesting consultant resources, selecting consultants, and working with consultants, trade compliance professionals leverage the benefits of external experts.
Employee Education in Compliance Training
Employee education supports organizational growth and development. Its benefits are generally well known, but how do you ensure that training, in any form, generates the outcomes and advances you desire? Measuring and benchmarking success can be especially difficult when creating customized training programs, which are often needed for international trade compliance topics.
DHS Audit of CBP’s Centers of Excellence and Expertise Yields Evidence of Mismanagement
Uniformity, or rather the lack thereof, in procedures and practices within U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Centers of Excellence and Expertise (Centers) is evidently harming compliant companies within the trade community.
Compliance Issues in Government “Buy America” Solicitations
Whether you are creating a new in-house trade compliance function or evaluating an established one, there is no getting around the perpetual question: Where should Trade Compliance report?
The FDA is Cracking Down on Supplement Manufacturers
Enter any of the more health-oriented grocery stores in the U.S., like Whole Foods, and you’ll see aisles upon aisles of supplements —everything from multivitamins to fish oil to protein powders. The supplement industry is a $61 billion market and has seen steady growth over the past decade. People who want designer supplements can even […]
The Importance of Compliance Strength During Rapid Growth
Rapid growth, which usually indicates a positive stage for companies, comes with potential downsides, as seen in the cautionary tale of Toll Holdings.
Antiboycott Compliance for U.S. Companies
A boycott is the organized and intentional refusal to engage in activity, whether directly or indirectly, with an identifiable specific group of persons in order to achieve a discriminatory policy objective based upon national origin, religion, ethnicity, race, gender, or other group characteristic.
Social Compliance, Human Trafficking and CTPAT
Attention Importers! Social Compliance, Human Trafficking and CTPAT By Judy Davis, Senior Trade Advisor, Braumiller Consulting Group Got any idea what the known-unknowns are in your supply chain? As an Importer, is there a thorough understanding of all the links from sourcing raw materials to subcontract manufacturing, to final assembly of finished goods inbound to […]
The New Administration, Freeze Order and Impacts
With a new administration comes the regulatory freeze announcement and its potential impact on organizations and their strategic planning. Issuing a freeze is so common that the communications almost appear boilerplate. President Biden made interesting changes, however, in comparison to past presidents.
Department of Homeland Security Announces Actions to Combat E-Commerce Counterfeiting
S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data shows that between the years 2000 and 2018, seizures of counterfeit goods at U.S. borders have increased 10-fold, from 3,244 seizures per year to 33,810. In response to this surge, in April of last year, the Trump Administration published its Memorandum on Combating Trafficking in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods…