Monday Morning eBriefing

On behalf of NCBFAA's Board of Directors, Leadership and Staff, we want to take a moment to acknowledge and welcome Breeze, Capito Enterprises, NU Borders, and Remant Cool Logistics which have recently joined our association.

The benefit enrollment process can be complicated each year — both for your business and your employees. Fortunately, there are some easy ways to streamline the process and make it more likely for employees to participate.

Koverly, a B2B global payments platform, announces free foreign currency transactions—giving NCBFAA members guaranteed access to the best possible FX rates.

Pursuant to the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act (MoCRA), most cosmetics manufacturing and processing companies will need to register their facilities and likewise list their products with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To allow companies time to comply, the FDA opened its new Cosmetics Facility Registration site on Oct. 1.

In another historic first, the 118th Congress has made history by ousting a sitting elected speaker of the House. On Tuesday, Oct. 3, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was removed from the speakership by a bipartisan vote consisting of all the Democrats and eight Republican members of Congress.

The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Laredo Field Office said in an Oct. 4 update to the trade that the agency will continue to monitor the migrant situation, as well as the impact to the Ports of Del Rio and Eagle Pass due to the safety inspections by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) which are scheduled to last through Oct. 8.

The United States and international cybersecurity authorities have issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to highlight a recently discovered cluster of activity of interest associated with a China state-sponsored cyber actor, known as Volt Typhoon.

Both NCBFAA and the Airforwarders Association (AfA) have been actively alerting our respective memberships and their customers to the inevitable sun-setting of the ITS amendment on Oct. 31 to avoid disruption to the air cargo supply chain.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published its latest Trade Snapshot (Vol. 5, Issue 7). In this publication, CBP Executive Assistant Commissioner AnnMarie R. Highsmith discussed her September trip to the U.K.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Oct. 5 published a final rule making the Centers of Excellence and Expertise a permanent organizational component of the agency, effective Nov. 6.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP), along with input from the NCBFAA, recently overhauled the part 111 broker regulations. The Association responded to these changes by revising its Power of Attorney and Terms & Conditions for Members.

A summary of the latest customs and cross-border trade regulatory updates brought to you by our NCBFAA Customs Counsel firm Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg.

A summary of the latest legislative and regulatory transport, logistics and trade sector updates brought to you by our NCBFAA Transportation Counsel firm Venable.

Nearly half of Gen Zers in a recent survey are considering skilled trades as a career. Host Gene Marks gives that idea of thumbs-up and suggests a resurgence in trades is coming.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Sept. 29 provided the trade with an update of its ACE Development and Deployment Schedule.

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the Export Enforcement 5 (E5) countries published a quint seal export control guidance document to industry and academia.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced, effective Sept. 27, goods produced by Xinjiang Zhongtai Group Co. Ltd., Xinjiang Tianshan Wool Textile Co. Ltd., and Xinjiang Tianmian Foundation Textile Co. will be restricted from entering the U.S.

A summary of the latest legislative and regulatory transport, logistics and trade sector updates brought to you by our NCBFAA Transportation Counsel firm Venable.

On behalf of NCBFAA's Board of Directors, Leadership and Staff, we want to take a moment to acknowledge and welcome Bay Brokerage, DGM Florida, FLS Projects (USA), Import Export Logistics, Leyendecker Supply Chain Solutions, Shaun Thompson Customs Broker, and South East World Wide (Chicago) which have recently joined our association.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Sept. 27 noted the Appendix PGA document has been updated.