February 16, 2023
CBP Adds Aluminum to UFPLA
In an effort to combat forced labor, Customs and Border Protection declared aluminum as the…
December 23, 2022
FMC Investigations Coincide with Rate Trouble
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is looking into retaliation behavior by ocean carriers as they…
December 7, 2022
Section 301 Extending Another 90
The United States Trade Representative has extended the Section 301 exclusions on eighty-one “COVID-related” items…
September 20, 2022
Blank Sailing & Golden Week Bound
After talking breathlessly about the possibility of a rail strike and how the world held…
June 27, 2022
OSRA is in Effect
President Biden signed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act (OSRA) of 2022 on June 16, 2022,…
May 31, 2022
Section 232 and 301 Investigation and Hearing
The United States Trade Commission has announced that it will be investigating the economic impact…
April 8, 2022
Section 301 Tariff Turnaround
The Section 301 tariff exclusions on Chinese manufactured goods have been updated to allow exemptions…
March 9, 2022
MSC Temporarily Halts Russian Bookings
On March 1, 2022, the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) introduced a temporary stoppage on all…
January 26, 2022
Updated HTS Codes Incoming
Updating the HTS codes every 5 years, the World Customs Organization has begun updating it…
November 15, 2021
Compounded Fees: Time is Money
There’s more than a bit of chaos in the port of Los Angeles and Long…
October 27, 2021
Supply and demand – More like cry and get slammed
With the holidays rapidly approaching, the supply chains across the world are being bogged down…