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Source: The Korea Times KCS chief vows to place top priority on helping SMEs. Korea is seeking to become a leader in global customs services by offering solutions to complex international clearance procedures in a bid to foster trade relations between local businesses and partner nations worldwide…
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Across British industry, Brexit remains a dirty word—unless you’re a customs agent. These middlemen, who make sure goods don’t get held up at border crossings, might be just about the only businesspeople cheering for the divorce. For a quarter-century, companies across…
Source: Waging Nonviolence After two months of protest by business owners and workers in Mombasa, the government rescinded a decision that dealt a major blow to the cargo industry. On Dec. 4, Kenya’s senate committee on transport summoned the cabinet secretary for transport over his directive to…
Source: PRWIRE Simplifies and speeds up the declaration process and improves accuracy. Imports and exports to China will be streamlined using Global Trade Item Numbers (GTIN) thanks to a resolution by Chinese Customs. The General Administration of Customs of China (GAC) rolled out a GTIN reporting…
Source: CBC News The World Trade Organization says the United States can impose tariffs on up to $7.5 billion US worth of goods from the European Union as retaliation for illegal subsidies that the bloc gave to plane-maker Airbus — a record award from the trade body. The move green-lights the Trump…
IFCBA Past Chair and WCO Private Sector Consultative Group (PSCG) Vice-Chair Jaime King recently made a presentation to the World Customs Organization’s Harmonized System Committee. This presentation followed up on some of the ideas exchanged at the WCO Conference on The Future of the Harmonized…
Source: Lloyd's Loading List The US is to remain a member the world’s postal system after Universal Postal Union (UPU) members approved a compromise agreement which will allow the US Postal Service (USPS) to declare its own rates for imported small parcels from China and the rest of the world from…
The IFCBA is pleased to have received news of a special anniversary for one of our members. 10 years ago, on September 18, 2009, the Association of Customs Brokers of Uzbekistan was officially registered as a union of legal entities - customs brokers and customs warehouses. Today, the Association of…
Source: WTO At the request of the parties in the dispute “US — Countervailing Measures on Softwood Lumber from Canada” (DS533), the panel has decided to open its second substantive meeting to public observation on 16, 17 and 18 October 2019. The live screening will take place at the WTO’s…