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Recap of the CBP East Coast Trade Symposium (& Dates for 2018!)

As you know (for those of you who have been following our blog), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) held its annual East Coast Trade Symposium on December 5-6, 2017, in Atlanta, GA. Below summarizes the panels I attended, would love your thoughts if you were there. For those that couldn’t make it – hope below proves useful as a summary for you!

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The event kicked off with Brenda B. Smith, CBP’s Office of Trade Executive Assistant Commissioner, introducing CBP’s trade strategy and the four important lanes CBP is focusing on:

 

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By |2022-07-06T15:57:42-04:00January 3, 2018|Best Practices, Events, Import, International Trade, International Travel, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)|1 Comment
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Importers: If you Can’t Answer These 12 Questions on Forced Labor You’re In Trouble!

An estimated 40.3 million people were living in modern slavery at any moment in time in 2016. This amounts to 5.4 victims of modern slavery for every thousand people in the world. Seventy three per cent of the victims of forced labor were female, and one in four victims were children. Forced labor accounted for 24.9 million people, while 15.4 million were in forced marriage.

What is the U.S. Doing About It? […]

By |2022-03-18T16:43:23-04:00December 12, 2017|Best Practices, Import, International Law, Investigation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)|7 Comments
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Yet Another Reason to Record your Trademark or Copyright with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

Co-Authored by Jennifer Diaz and Kristina Hernandez-Tilson, an attorney in Miami, Florida, practices in state and federal court, litigating matters of civil and administrative law. 

Whether you are importing goods to the United States, or are a U.S. trademarks or copyright owner, there is a new law on the books that should be of interest to you, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (TFTEA), which was signed into law on February 24, 2016.  TFTEA, a bipartisan piece of legislation, is comprehensive in scope. In this Article, we will look specifically at Sections 302 through 311, the section on “Import-Related Protection of Intellectual Property Rights” (IPR). The TFTEA highlights the fact that CBP treats IPR as a priority trade initiative.

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By |2021-11-09T14:32:52-05:00April 12, 2016|Best Practices, Counterfeits, IPR, Trademarks and Logos, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)|6 Comments
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