Three marine terminal operators had approached the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission about forming a joint terminal services and stevedoring operation in the ports of Savannah and Charleston.

The AgTC asked the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission to extend the comment deadline to Oct. 31, calling the rule “the most relevant and far-reaching initiative taken by the FMC in many years.”

The Express Association of America said additional industry participants in Customs and Border Protection’s Section 321 pilot will “enhance” the agency’s capability to target illicit products.

The Justice Department has asked the express carrier’s lawsuit to be dismissed, stating that it should be up to Congress and not the court to decide if the Export Administration Regulations apply.

The Federal Maritime Commission welcomes container shipping industry’s comments on recommendations to bring clarity and fairness to the assessment of demurrage and detention fees.

The NCBFAA proposes amending the U.S Bankruptcy Code to allow “subrogation” rights for customs brokers who have paid duties to the U.S. government on behalf of a bankrupt importer.

The National Association of Manufacturers wants Capitol Hill lawmakers to pass another long-term extension of the bank’s charter before its Sept. 30 expiration.

Attorney Richard Luthmann received a four-year prison term and was ordered to pay $500,000 in restitution for defrauding businesses in the U.S. and overseas.

Export compliance experts find little new in the Bureau of Industry and Security’s FAQs answers related to the Chinese telecom’s placement on the Entity List and temporary general license.

A Treasury Department official reaffirmed on Sept. 8 the Trump administration’s denial of temporary waivers that previously allowed countries to import Iranian crude oil under U.N. and U.S. sanctions.

The U.S. container shipping industry is eager to weigh in on recommendations produced and approved by the Federal Maritime Commission that promise to bring clarity and fairness to the assessment of demurrage and detention fees.

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission on Sept. 6 unanimously approved a set of recommendations to bring about fairness in the way demurrage and detention fees are administered by ocean carriers […]

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control warns that companies providing bunker services must be careful not to violate the Iran sanctions, but there are exceptions.

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned 16 entities and 10 individuals, as well as 11 ships, which it identified as participants in an Iran-controlled “oil-for-terror” shipping scheme.

Resit Tavan, owner of Istanbul-based Ramor Dis Ticaret Ltd., will spend 27 months in jail for conspiring to export U.S. marine equipment to Iran.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control said additional trade regulations will take aim at the Nicaraguan president and his regime for the ongoing use of violence against the country’s people.

South Florida’s customs brokers and forwarder employees begin returning to their offices, with the region mostly avoiding the damaging effects of the hurricane.

The BIS Office of Export Enforcement has “revealed schemes” by Pakistani entities attempting to acquire U.S. technologies to support the country’s nuclear program.

OFAC has added two Taiwan entities and another in Hong Kong, as well as their managers, to its list of sanctions for illicit ship-to-ship transfers of fuel to North Korea.

After 35 years representing the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America on Capitol Hill, Jon Kent has decided it is time to retire.

Customs and Border Protection announced that it will suspend operations at the two Georgia seaports for Sept. 3-4 with the approach of Hurricane Dorian.

Many of Florida’s customs brokers and freight forwarders already have taken measures to protect their business operations from what could be a hard-hitting storm on Labor Day.

With Hurricane Dorian bearing down, Customs and Border Protections’ 2,500 staff in Florida, as well as its various marine and aircraft assets, are prepared to respond.

A Hong Kong firm was sanctioned this week by the Office of Foreign Assets Control for its alleged role in the illegal transshipment of U.S. technology to Iran.

U.S. companies with business in Russia — even those not engaged in chemical or biological exports — should understand the sanctions to avoid compliance exposure, export compliance experts say.

The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation said it will move forward with the imposition of a second round of trade sanctions against Russia.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it will introduce “in the coming months” a new automated tool for importers and exporters to submit their electronic vessel manifest confidentiality requests to the agency.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach seaport complex halted the illegal import of Chinese-made firearm parts valued at $378,225.

Three Chinese businessmen and their companies involved in the manufacture and export of deadly fentanyl have been designated as violators of the Kingpin Act.

The U.S. Justice Department said American Airlines has agreed to pay a $22.1 million civil penalty to resolve allegations that it falsely reported the times it transferred U.S. mail to foreign postal services.

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security has provided a general advisory opinion warning U.S. exporters to use caution when sharing certain technology information in global standards-setting organizations if parties on the Entity List are involved.

The National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America welcomed a recently proposed rule from U.S. Customs and Border Protection that requires customs brokers to have a more complete identification of their importer clients.

The U.S. Commerce Department has added 46 additional overseas affiliates of Chinese telecommunications technology manufacturer Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to the restrictive Entity List.

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security subjects 17 overseas entities to stricter U.S. export licensing controls by adding them to the Entity List.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has started making examples of companies that did not take its administrative subpoenas for information involving alleged sanctions violations seriously.

Customs and Border Protection has adjusted the amounts for its merchandise processing fees for fiscal year 2020 to reflect changes due to inflation.

With their vast knowledge of imports, customs brokers see themselves playing an important role in the battle against counterfeit goods.

Customs and Border Protection has updated its seizure mitigation guidelines involving licensed and non-licensed exports for its officers at the nation’s ports of entry.

FMC Commissioner Rebecca Dye is scheduled to deliver her demurrage and detention recommendations to her fellow commissioners on Sept. 3.

PACCAR agreed to a $1.7 million settlement from the U.S. Treasury Department that its European subsidiary, DAT Trucks, illegally engaged in the sale 63 trucks to Iran between 2013 and 2015.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection marks the 230th anniversary of the first customs processing of a ship in the new United States.

The State, Treasury and Commerce departments are ramping up to implement an Aug. 1 executive order from President Donald Trump that imposes a second round of sanctions against Russia.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the U.S. plans to drop trade sanctions against Venezuela once embattled President Nicolás Maduro is out of office.

Japan’s Cabinet on Aug. 2 approved a measure that will allow the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to impose new licensing policies and procedures on exports and transfers of controlled items to South Korea.

Chinese billionaire Liu Zhongtian, former president of China Zhongwang Holdings Ltd., was indicted by federal court in Los Angeles for allegedly evading $1.8 billion antidumping and countervailing duties on aluminum shipments.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence is at the center of the country’s efforts to counter national security and terrorism financing threats.

E-commerce packages are flooding the U.S. The vast majority contain legal products, but U.S. Customs and Border Patrol worries about those that contain illegal or dangerous products.

New equipment will allow U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents inspect up to 50 trucks per hour along the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico.

Nine participants from the e-commerce sector will provide Customs and Border Protection certain data elements in advance of shipments arriving in the U.S. during the yearlong pilot.

Only 16 days into the job as acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner, Mark Morgan admits that he’s still facing “a bit of learning curve,” but vowed that the agency will continue to work with the trade in a spirit of “transparency, communication and collaboration.”

Trade advisory committee tasked with proposing ways to improve economic conditions in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador will submit report at Aug. 21 meeting.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is starting a voluntary pilot Aug. 22 to collect advance data related to e-commerce shipments with import values of less than the $800 de minimis.

Louis Sola joined the Federal Maritime Commission earlier this year with the goal of working with industry to tackle inefficiencies in the U.S. container supply chain.

The new functionality will be available beginning July 27 and will allow the electronic consolidation of informal entry summaries to be processed in the express consignment environment.

Second executive of Casey’s Seafood in Newport News, Va., faces five years in jail and a fine for his role in falsely representing foreign crabmeat as U.S. product.

Eric Hirschhorn, BIS chief during the Obama administration, said interactions with industry when reforming export control regulations are vital and warned the agency needs more resources to carry out its […]

Calls for the Trump administration to impose trade sanctions against Turkey for its recent purchase of a Russian-made surface-to-air missile system are becoming louder from Capitol Hill.

The Federal Maritime Commission will monitor the transparency of bunker-adjustment factor formulas as the IMO low-sulfur fuel mandate looms, Chairman Michael Khouri said.

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation that would require congressional approval to remove Huawei from the Commerce Department’s Entity List.

An attempt to illegally ship a U.S.-made drill to Iran nets a $300,000 civil penalty and an export denial from the Bureau of Industry and Security.

Canada’s freight forwarders are working with the Canada Border Services Agency to test the processes for the country’s new paperless export reporting system, which is scheduled to become the only […]

Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins introduced legislation to reauthorize and enhance the functionality of the CBP’s Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Program.

During the first half of 2019, the International Maritime Bureau said 62 seafarers were taken hostage by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea.

The fake Edison Professional speakers, with a manufacturer’s suggested retail value of $253,572, originated in China and will be destroyed.

The American Logistics Aid Network is rallying its freight logistics and transportation service provider members to assist with the potential devastating aftermath of Tropical Storm Barry.

The Waterways Council wants lawmakers to legislate a cost-share split for inland waterways infrastructure projects that’s 25% nonfederal funds and 75% federal monies.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said China’s pursuit of U.S. military-grade technologies “cannot be tolerated and we are updating our export control policies to account for this very real threat.”

Mediterranean Shipping Co. said with the exception of a small number of containers involved in the illegal drug shipment investigation in Philadelphia, the rest of the MSC Gayane’s containers were […]

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control took PB Tankers and its six tankers off the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List after three months.

The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said it’s become increasingly concerned that South Korea’s export controls are insufficient for certain “sensitive items.”

The agency called the seizure of the 10,776-TEU MSC Gayane the largest in its 230-year history.

The Justice Department said Yi-Chi Shih illegally exported military-grade semiconductor technology to China.

Mark Morgan, formerly acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, succeeds John Sanders.

Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists in Port Manatee, Fla., discovered the potentially destructive pest in a shipment of malangas from Mexico.

It’s taken more than 20 years, but the mandatory automated submission of in-bond information to CBP via the Automated Commercial Environment starts July 29.

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida approved the $2.3 million sale of IPS Worldwide’s remaining assets to Europe Management SPRL.

GAO says a study of freight trains as long as three miles should include a strategy for both the FRA and railroads to ease impacts of delays at crossings.

Cloud-based supply chain solutions provider E2open has completed its acquisition of Amber Road by purchasing outstanding shares.

The Justice Department said a California man will face trial in a Los Angeles federal court for his alleged role in the illegal export of cesium atomic clocks to Hong […]

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has started taking applications this week to fill new agriculture specialist positions in ports of entry throughout the country.

The Bureau of Industry and Security removed the Chinese entities from the Unverified List after verifying their bona fides during end-use checks.

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has received 17 license applications and changes for review. The FMC received non-vessel-operating common carrier license applications from CJ Services International Corp., Doral, Fla. (Carla […]

The Justice Department said Höegh Autoliners’ Ingar Skiaker and Øyvind Ervik worked with other shipping companies to illegally “fix, stabilize and maintain rates.”

John Sanders, who had led U.S. Customs and Border Protection in an acting role since mid-April, will depart the agency on July 5.

The District Court of Miami gave Roberto Dip and Jason Handal jail time for their roles in a pricing-fixing scheme that occurred between September 2010 and March 2015.

Express carrier giant argues when it comes to compliance with the Export Administration Regulations that it’s “a transportation company, not a law enforcement agency.”

The president authorized financial sanctions against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and certain Revolutionary Guard officers in response to military tensions in the Persian Gulf.

The International Maritime Organization said piracy incident warnings from a Regional Maritime Information Sharing Centre email account in Yemen aren’t legitimate.

Five Chinese firms added to the Commerce Department’s Entity List operate under myriad aliases, challenging U.S. export compliance managers.

Responding to Hong Kong’s proposed extradition legislation, Congress aims to shut down the territory’s transshipment channels to China and other sanctioned countries.

Portline Bulk International in federal court Thursday agreed to pay a $1.5 million criminal fine for willfully dumping oily bilge into the ocean and falsifying its ship’s oil records.

President Trump wants the federal government to weed out hundreds of no longer needed or inactive advisory committees from its roster.

Funding means “cross-border commerce critical to our economy is not impeded,” trade groups, chambers of commerce and companies said in a letter. 

Chinese telecom giant’s CEO Ren Zhengfei expects his company to lose $30 billion in revenue in 2019, mostly due to Commerce’s Entity List and the U.S.-China trade war.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control is authorized by law to periodically adjust its civil penalty amounts for violations of various foreign financial transaction controls.

Tricon and owner Haoyang Yu were charged in a federal court in Boston on Friday with illegally exporting integrated circuits that contained stolen trade circuits from a U.S. firm.

“Authorized filers will be able to file electronically in ACE and will no longer have to submit paper nor mail in checks to pay duties for these filings,” CBP said.

While Commerce calls for increased domestic production of “critical minerals,” it highlights the need to boost investment and trade with countries friendly to the U.S.

Industry expresses disappointment that Customs’ umbrella system remains vulnerable to shutdowns.