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World Trade Month Seminar Series for Compliance Professionals

In celebration of World Trade Month, Diaz Trade Law is hosting a World Trade Month Seminar Series for Compliance Professionals featuring U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) speakers.

In the first seminar, attendees will learn the ABC’s of Antidumping & Countervailing Duties (AD/CVD) compliance and CBP Enforcement.

In the second seminar, FDA will focus on food importations and discuss the upcoming Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) requirement under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

The TOP reasons you should attend?

For a limited time, registration is FREE!
You have the ability to hear DIRECTLY from CBP and FDA.
We want the seminars to be informative and all of your questions answered. In that vain, we are currently taking ANY questions you have related to the Centers of Excellence and Expertise (CEE) and Antidumping & Countervailing Duties (AD/CVD) for CBP, and food importation/FSMA related questions for the FDA. Please email your questions today to info@diaztradelaw.com!

Full details including registration information for BOTH seminars are below. […]

By Jennifer Diaz|2017-04-21T20:28:06-04:00April 20, 2017|AD/CVD, Bioterrorism Act, CBP 28, CBP 29, CEE, Events, FDA Issues, FDA Notice of Detention, Food, FSMA, International Law, International Trade, Pre-compliance, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)|0 Comments

Is “Made in the USA” Really Made in the USA?

Which Federal Agency Regulates the “Made in the USA” Claim?

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “the Commission”) “is charged with preventing deception and unfairness in the marketplace. The FTC created an Act that would allow the Commission to bring legal action “against false or misleading claims that a product is of U.S. origin”.

When Can I Say Made in the USA?

For a product to be considered as “Made in the USA” without qualification, that product must be “all or virtually all” made in the U.S. How the Commission determines whether a product is “all or virtually all” made in the U.S., by looking at whether there was “a ‘reasonable basis’ to support the claim at the time it is made”. To prove the “reasonable basis” standard, a manufacturer or marketer must provide “competent and reliable evidence” to the FTC.
A qualified Made in the USA claim must describe “the extent, amount or type of [its] domestic content or processing”. This allows the consumer to know “that the product isn’t entirely of domestic origin”. The FTC warns that qualified claims can be tricky, so it is best to “avoid qualified claims unless the product has a significant amount of U.S. content or U.S. processing”.
- Ex: “60% U.S. content. Made in USA of U.S. and imported parts. Couch assembled in USA from Italian Leather and Mexican Frame.”
For a complete understanding of the FTC’s Made in the USA standard, take a look at “Complying with the MADE IN USA STANDARD”.

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By Jennifer Diaz|2026-06-05T07:37:00-04:00April 4, 2017|Best Practices, penalty, Pre-compliance|2 Comments

The Centers For Excellence and Expertise Have Arrived!

What are the Centers for Excellence and Expertise?

CBP is changing how it does business. CBP envisions an end to port shopping and uniform decision making throughout all ports of entry via use of the Centers of Excellence and Expertise (CEE). We previously advised our readers that a CEE was arriving in Miami!

By way of background, in 2012, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published a Federal Register notice (77 FR 52048) that “developed a test to incrementally transition the operational trade functions that traditionally reside with port directors to the CEE.” The purpose of the test was to expand the CEEs’ ability to make decisions, by allowing the directors of the CEE to make decisions that were normally reserved for port directors. CBP’s goal for the CEEs is to “facilitate trade, reduce transaction costs, increase compliance with applicable port laws, and to achieve uniformity of treatment at the ports of entry for the identified industries (77 FR 52048).”

CBP discussed the application process, and urged importers to apply to a CEE to begin receiving the benefits of being a participating account early.

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By Jennifer Diaz|2022-07-07T12:04:05-04:00March 17, 2017|Import, International Trade, Pre-compliance|0 Comments

New Executive Order…Will Small Businesses Benefit?

On January 30th, the Office of the Press Secretary released the Executive Order (EO) on reducing federal regulations and controlling regulatory costs. This latest EO requires that all federal agencies “cut two existing regulations for every new regulation they implement”. According to President Trump, this EO is meant to help small businesses by easing “the opening and expansion of small businesses” and the “incremental costs for the new regulations in 2017 will be zero dollars”. The EO requires “for every one new regulation issued, at least two prior regulations be identified for elimination, and that the cost of planned regulations be prudently managed and controlled through a budgeting process.” There will also be “certain categories of regulations that will be exempt from this new policy, including those dealing with the military and national security”. […]

By Jennifer Diaz|2017-02-10T22:43:35-05:00February 13, 2017|Best Practices, Export, Import, Pre-compliance, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)|0 Comments

Top Successes of Diaz Trade Law (DTL) & Diaz Trade Consulting (DTC) in 2016!

DTL saved clients MILLIONS of dollars in 2016, below we list a summary of some of our compliance successes!

U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP)

Assisted an importer in having $434,486.00 worth of goods seized returned to it in a RECORD 24 working days, with a signed settlement agreement with CBP in a record 17 working days!
Assisted an importer in having $324,466.00 worth of goods seized for an underlying AES violation returned.
Assisted importers in filing prior disclosures that were accepted by CBP, advising of errors found, and avoiding substantial penalties.
Assisted importers in successfully responding to CBP 28’s and 29’s resulting in close outs, and no further enforcement action by CBP!
Assisted importers in creating and maintaining pre-compliance programs to evaluate intellectual property rights and pre-report merchandise to CBP resulting in expedited entry into the U.S. with no delays or examinations by CBP.

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By Jennifer Diaz|2022-07-07T12:00:14-04:00January 26, 2017|Best Practices, CBP 28, CBP 29, Cuba, Expert, FDA Issues, Pre-compliance, TSA, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)|0 Comments

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