• NCBFAA Customs Committee Tracks De-escalation of Tariffs for China-Hong Kong Products

  May 15, 2025
  The NCBFAA Customs Committee and Counsel of Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., continue to monitor and highlight key changes within the IEEPA tariff and de minimis landscape on behalf of our customs broker members. This week's IEEPA Tariff Memo outlines the changes brought by the White House’s May 12 Executive Order initiating changes to the ad valorem duty rate, tariff modifications, and de minimis for China, plus a new CBP FAQ regarding feeder vessel scenarios impacted by in-transit guidance for reciprocal entries and other sources of tariff information.
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• BIS Rescinds Artificial Intelligence Diffusion Rule

  May 15, 2025
  The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has rescinded the AI Diffusion Rule that was issued on Jan. 15, 2025, and was take effect May 15, 2025. BIS does plan to publish a regulation that will formalize the rescission of the existing rule, as well as issue a replacement rule in the future.
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• Consolidated Screening List Functionality

  May 15, 2025
  The Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration has posted a notice on its webpage stating the agency is aware of an issue with the Consolidated Screening List’s Application Programming Interface (API) functionality, which includes the CSL search engine.
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NCBFAA Webinar: Automating Your Back Office Operations

24 January, 2024, 1 PM-2 PM

Customs brokers and freight forwarders are having to take more time out of their days to solve problems with regulatory agencies and asset-owning service providers. Whether it’s the hours-long call fighting a demurrage charge or the back-and-forth with a regulatory agency securing the release of detained cargo, these tasks take time.

Automating Your Back Office Operations
January 24^th 1 – 2 pm ET
1 CCS/CES credit

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7707602235822972767

Customs brokers and freight forwarders are having to take more time out of their days to solve problems with regulatory agencies and asset-owning service providers.  Whether it’s the hours-long call fighting a demurrage charge or the back-and-forth with a regulatory agency securing the release of detained cargo, these tasks take time.

Absent adding additional staff, there have to be ways to gain time back during the work day, and the simple process of utilizing automation tools to perform manually intensive tasks is one of the easiest paths to take.

BravoTran’s founder has championed the cause of “Automating the mundane,” and helping companies do just that is their single focus. Hear how your company can use technology as a means to give talented, knowledgeable people the time to deliver better customer service and solve increasingly complex challenges for their clients’ supply chains.