Forced Labor

Forced Labor ULFPA

WRO and ULFPA detentions are happening much more often with China, Malaysia and Vietnam. The supplier to your supplier is where you may often be unfamiliar with the source of manufacturing and whether forced labor is involved. How to overcome the obstacles regarding importing a product to the U.S. from these countries. Braumiller Law Group can help.

Braumiller Law Group Shipping Containers Exam

Shipping Containers Exam

There are three main exams customs will conduct to determine whether they will release or confiscate a shipment on hold. One is the x-ray exam or VACIS exam, the second is the tail gate exam or break the seal and enter, and the third is the intensive exam where they empty the container and open all contents. Not passing the exam can be very expensive. Braumiller Consulting Group can help.

Customs Brokers: Giving Credit to Accreditors

Customs Regulations

U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) published the Final Rule on continuing education for individual customs broker license holders in the Federal Register on June 23, 2023. This Final Rule made several changes to Part 111 of the Customs Regulations and imposed a continuing education requirement on individual license holders.

Driving You MAD – Customs Issues in Mergers Acquisitions & Divestitures

Mergers and Acquisitions

When one company buys another there are typically two ways the purchased company will be treated: (1) It will be incorporated into the parent company and will no longer exist as a separate entity. (2) It will become a separately incorporated subsidiary of the parent company and retain its IRS number.

Complying with BIS’s Advanced Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing Rules – Knowledge, Due Diligence, and Technology Thresholds

chinese semiconductors

U.S. industries supplying Chinese facilities with products, equipment, software, and technology used in semiconductor development and production are subject to regulatory controls under the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”). New rules published by the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) on October 13, 2022, 87 FR 62186, imposed additional license requirements regarding the […]

I Just Found Out My Imported Goods are Subject to Antidumping – What Should I do?

antidumping

Currently there are close to 400 active antidumping cases involving nearly 40 countries. The cases cover a wide range of products including steel commodity products and steel articles (number one category), chemical products, other metal commodities and articles, plastics and rubber products, food products, paperboard and manufactured articles. Key countries subject to ADD are China (number one country by far), Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam.

ICPA 2022 Annual Conference

icpa 2022 annual conference

February 27th – March 2nd, 2022
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. CST
Manchester Grand Hyatt
1 Market Place
San Diego, CA

HTS Classification Mistakes Before Customs Comes Knocking

hts classification mistakes.

By: Bob Brewer, Braumiller Law Group & Brad Menard, VP of Braumiller Consulting Group It’s a fact of life in international trade, many shipments, on a daily basis, arrive at ports in the U.S. with the wrong tariff classification code assigned to the product. No big deal? Not quite, and I can tell you this, from the […]