Category: News

USTR publishes proposed action and China reacts with it’s own list

As announced, the U.S. Trade Representative (Trade Representative; USTR) has determined that the acts, policies, and practices of the Government of China related to technology transfer, intellectual property, and innovation covered in the investigation are unreasonable or discriminatory and burden [...]

New ACE reporting to support reconciliation in ACE

As you know, CBP delivered ACE Deployment G, Release 4, on Saturday, February 24th, as promised.  One of the critical pieces of this deployment was moving reconciliation entries into ACE, along with drawback, liquidation and other functionality.  Read our prior blog [...]

U.S. Department of Commerce Announces Steel and Aluminum Tariff Exclusion Process

March 18, 2018 U.S. Department of Commerce Announcement Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced its procedures for excluding products from the recently announced tariffs on steel and aluminum product imports. As directed by President Trump, the Department will publish [...]

ITC Rules on Chinese Subsidized Plywood on ADD/CVD

Tariffs Raised By 200 Percent On Some Imports After failing to get tariffs in place for Chinese plywood twice before, the newest ruling by the International Trade Commission (ITC) is that the domestic industry is materially injured, or threatened with material [...]

Looming Government Shut Down on December 8 is Uncertain

What is actually shut down during a government shut down? Congress is debating a government shut down on Dec 8, but there is talk of it being pushed back to December 22. While anything linked to national security will not [...]

Over $1 Billion Sold by Shopify Merchants During Black Friday and Cyber Monday

According to a November 28th, 2017 Business Wire news article, Shopify merchants report 1 Billion in sales in 2017. “This $1 billion milestone emphatically stakes a flag in the ground for entrepreneurs and small business owners all around the world”, said Tobi Lutke, [...]

Tesla Reveals Groundbreaking Self-Driving Electric Semi Trucks

In an evening meeting on November 16, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced a smack-down to gasoline powered cars and trucks by announcing the prototype of their self-driving truck. This innovative design by the company that pioneered electric cars promises more [...]

NCBFAA Seeking Input from Members on Most Recent ACE Downtime

The ACE outage on November 14th causes concern over current CBP downtime procedures. For a time system errors were preventing users from logging into the ACE Portal screens as well as issues with Trade electronic EDI message processing. See the original reports [...]

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