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Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - April 2024 - Maximizing Duty Savings Series –Section 321 Duty Exemptions or De Minimis...

Welcome to the second installment in our series on duty-saving strategies. After discussing the utilization of Foreign Trade Zones and Bonded Warehouses in our previous article, we now turn to Section 321, a topic of...more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - April 2024 - De Minimis An Ever-Growing Problem of De Maximus Proportion

From Wikipedia: De minimis is a Latin expression meaning “pertaining to minimal things”, normally in the terms de minimis non curat praetor. (“The praetor does not concern himself with trifles”) or de minimis non curat lex...more

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Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Signed Into Law

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Creates A New Forced Labor “Presumption” That Would Prohibit Certain Imports From Entry Into The United States, Among Other Measures, To Address Forced Labor In China - On December 23, 2021, President Biden signed into law...more

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Trade And Investment In China Headed For More Scrutiny Due To Forced Labor Issues

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The United States Has Taken Major Steps Towards Combating Forced Labor In China, And More Action Is Coming - U.S. enforcement actions and legislative developments in Congress signal a sweeping U.S. effort to take more...more

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CBP Issues Withhold Release Order on Silica-Based Products from Chinese Entity

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on June 24, 2021, issued a Withhold Release Order (WRO) on silica-based products produced by Hoshine Silicon Industry Co. Ltd. (Hoshine) and its subsidiaries. Hoshine makes...more

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CBP Gets Tough on Forced Labor: Turning Supply Chain Risks Into Advantages

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Under the TFTEA, CBP has taken an increasingly enforcement-minded posture to prevent and penalize the importation of goods produced using forced labor into the United States. On August 13, 2020, CBP announced that it had...more

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CBP issues withhold release orders

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 11 (May 28, 2020) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued two withhold release orders in May, one against a seafood vessel and another involving hair products imported...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

Enforcement of modern slavery regulations reaches critical mass

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 2, no. 20 (October 24, 2019) - When the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced withhold release orders on Oct. 1, the mainstream media gave it considerable coverage....more

Pillsbury - Global Trade & Sanctions Law

CBP Takes Measures to Enforce Ban on Imports Made With Forced Labor and Sanctions for Forced North Korean Labor in Supply Chains

On November 22, 2017, Apple, Inc. (“Apple”) released a statement confirming reports that its major supplier in China, Foxconn Technology Group (“Foxconn”) has used illegal student labor to assemble the latest version of the...more

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