In the past, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) used the audit process to evaluate an importer’s compliance program – a paper heavy, cumbersome process for both CBP and the importer. One of the enhancements of ACE over ACS is the ability for CBP to manage data more effectively. CBP uses data collected via ACE to… Read more »
President Obama just announced the termination of the national emergency that President Bush declared with respect to Côte d’Ivoire in Executive Order 13396 back on February 7, 2006. The U.S. will now support the people and the government of Côte d’Ivoire in their efforts to continue to build the country’s democratic institutions by lifting the… Read more »
The 2010 International Commercial Terms, which are better known as Incoterms 2010 are being used more and more within the international trade community. As the transportation requirements change are you reviewing your international trade terms to ensure that you will not be held responsible for anything that you may have not agreed to? … Read more »
The International Civil Aviation Corporation (ICAO) has amended their dangerous goods requirements and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has published these amendments in the 58th Edition of the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations. Below is the link to IATA’s announcement and list of significant changes and amendments to the 58th Edition: https://www.iata.org/whatwedo/cargo/dgr/Documents/dgr-58-significant-changes.pdf Please make sure… Read more »
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s ACE Portal for Exports is up and running, but there is still a long road ahead. With various Participating Government Agencies (PGA) being mandated to have their required fields uploaded into the AESDirect Portal in ACE by the end of the year, you can count on seeing more and more… Read more »
The AESDirect Portal is now live in U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Automated Commercial Environment “ACE”. Have you set up your ACE Portal for exports yet? Many exporters are now using ACE AESDirect not only for the filing of their Electronic Export Information “EEI”, but for reporting purposes as well. Exporters have found the new… Read more »
Merit Tremper – Import 101 & Incoterms 2010 Trainer: Prior to becoming President of Merit Trade Consulting Services LLC, a trade consulting company. Merit was employed by RIM Logistics Ltd for sixteen years. During her time at the company, she held many titles, including most recently Vice President of Customer Solutions and Vice President of Import…. Read more »
MTC’S TRANSPORTATION 101 SEMINARS These transportation seminars are a perfect start to any importer’s or exporter’s compliance training program. You can choose to join us in any one of the three scheduled sessions that day, or you can save money by attending all three sessions. Our sessions include: Import 101 – Incoterms 2010 –… Read more »
Thirty years ago I was a very curious young woman just starting in the transportation industry. I asked a lot of questions on how things worked. I was very lucky to have people explain so I could learn and understand. I reached out many times when I was stuck. I read everything I was referred… Read more »
There is not really a lot of training that we in our industry have access to in college. Ours is more a trade industry. It’s all hands-on training. Now is the time for me to take all the information in my brain that I have accumulated over the last thirty years and write it all… Read more »
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