September 2017 | Customs & International Trade Law Blog

Essential Oils Company to Pay $760K for Lacey Act Violations

The Justice Department announced YOUNG LIVING ESSENTIAL OILS, L.C., (the Company), headquartered in Lehi, Utah, plead guilty in federal court to federal misdemeanor charges regarding its illegal trafficking of rosewood oil and spikenard oil in violation of the Lacey Act and the Endangered Species Act. […]

By Jennifer Diaz|2021-11-09T13:37:29-05:00September 25, 2017|Best Practices, Investigation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)|2 Comments

CTPAT “Your Supply Chains Strongest Link”

ctpat I just attended the 2017 CTPAT conference in Detroit. After 2 days of CTPAT’ing, here a list of my top 10 takeaways including the changes I see coming to the CTPAT program.

There is a new name. Notice the – is officially gone, no more C-TPAT (despite all of us conditioned to using the -, it is no more. CTPAT it is.
There is a new slogan – CTPAT “Your Supply Chains Strongest Link”.
There is a new woman at the helm. Elizabeth Schmelzinger is the Director of CTPAT.

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The biggest take away is ….

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By Jennifer Diaz|2017-09-01T15:30:37-04:00September 1, 2017|CTPAT, Events, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)|1 Comment