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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

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

U.S. Customs – Your Personal Policeman at the Border

Many companies mistakenly believe that registering a trademark or copyright with the U.S. Government provides sufficient protection and remedies, and, therefore, do not take the extra step to record those trademarks or copyrights with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (U.S. Customs).

The processes achieve two completely different goals.

Registering a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) or copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office gives public notice of one’s ownership of the trademark or copyright. On the other hand, the purpose of recording a trademark or copyright with U.S. Customs is to partner with the agency in preventing the unauthorized importation of merchandise that bears a recorded trademark or copyright. U.S. Customs prevents counterfeit and otherwise infringing products from entering or exiting the United States for registered trademark or copyright holders who have recorded their trademarks or copyrights with Customs. […]

By Jennifer Diaz|2021-12-07T14:53:59-05:00December 6, 2016|China, Counterfeits, Detention, Enforcement, Import, Intellectual Property Rights, International Trade, IPR, Trademarks and Logos, Pre-compliance, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)|8 Comments

CBP Launches New E-Commerce and Small Business Branch … Just in Time for the Holiday Shopping Season

With Thanksgiving in the rear view mirror and the Christmas holiday season kicking into high gear, now is the time to think of Pre-Compliance especially with the grave risks associated with shopping online and not knowing your supplier. As Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday commercial activity spikes, CBP is, in specific connection with online sales, warns consumers and merchants alike to be on the lookout for holiday shopping scams and/or criminal trade practices. Red flags to watch for in this regard include offers designed to induce the purchase of counterfeit and/or unsafe goods, prices that are too good to be true, e-commerce sites that lack legitimate phone numbers and/or addresses, and sellers who lack good customer feedback.

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By Jennifer Diaz|2022-07-07T11:51:37-04:00December 1, 2016|Best Practices, Counterfeits, Expert, Intellectual Property Rights, International Business, International Law, International Trade, IPR, Trademarks and Logos, Pre-compliance, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)|1 Comment

TPP: Dead or Alive?

Are you wondering whether, given President-elect Trump’s recent promise to abandon the agreement on his first day in office, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”) is even going to happen? Are you interested in knowing what all the buzz is about with the TPP? Would the TPP open up new business opportunities for your small- to medium-sized business in Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam? If you want to know more, then this FREE webinar is for you!

Top Five Reasons to Participate:

Gain insight into the nuts and bolts of how goods and services are exported from the U.S. into TPP countries.
Discover which elements of the TPP can help small- to medium sized U.S. companies save time, reduce costs, and improve certainty in TPP markets.
Hear from government officials what lies ahead with respect to the approval and entry into force of the TPP.
Take advantage of the opportunity to ask questions to and receive answers from TPP experts in real time (including whether or not they believe the TPP has a fighting chance).
Develop new contacts within the U.S. Commercial Service.

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By Jennifer Diaz|2016-11-22T22:12:57-05:00November 22, 2016|Events, International Business, International Law, International Trade, U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)|0 Comments

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