There are now 107 companies flagged by U.S. regulators for using forced labor or sourcing materials from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, with the inclusion of 29 more companies, DHS said.
The number of shipments stopped in October by CBP because of concerns over forced labor rose on a year-over-year and sequential basis, even though the value of those stopped shipments decreased over those same periods, according to CBP data.
The CEO of footwear company Steve Madden expects to reduce its imports from China and increase sourcing from other regions to hedge against proposed punitive tariffs on China by President-elect Donald Trump.
As Donald Trump returns to the White House in January, a short-term spike in import volumes at U.S. ports is inevitable, given the president-elect's strident stance on tariffs, some logistics experts say.
Shuffleboard tables are classifiable under a provision for video game consoles and tables for parlor or casino games, and not in a category for chess or backgammon tables, CBP recently ruled.
DHS has updated its Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List to include textile companies that allegedly use forced labor or source material from the Xinjiang autonomous region in China, and it removed one entity from one category of alleged violations and placed it in another category, according to a Federal Register notice.
The CBP has finally let customs brokers know how many continuing education (CE) credits they must earn and when they can start earning them so that they can maintain their broker licenses.
CBP recently held that a teleprompter base is properly classified as an article of aluminum rather than as a part of an electrical machine, upholding an August 2022 ruling after an importer requested reconsideration.
SAN DIEGO -- Customs brokers shouldn’t be dismissive or fearful of artificial intelligence tools because those tools' ability to analyze massive amounts of trade data enables brokers to focus on other aspects of the business, speakers on a panel said at the Pacific Coast Council’s Western Cargo Conference (WESCCON) last week.
Rope-coiled decorative baskets imported by Kohl's are generally classified as made-up textile articles, rather than as ropes, and an especially large version of one of the baskets is big enough to be classified as furniture, CBP said in a Sept. 27 customs ruling.