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.

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

FIATA reminds air freight forwarders that new European Union (EU) requirements will enter into force under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/920, effective Sept. 1. These requirements apply to Regulated Agents (RAs), which are entities formally approved by the competent EU authority to apply security controls to cargo.

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday evening, Aug. 29, released its decision in V.O.S. Selections, Inc. v. Trump, the case challenging the IEEPA Reciprocal, IEEPA Fentanyl (China), and IEEPA Border (CA/MX) tariffs.

Customs and Border Protection on Aug. 29 provided guidance to the trade on the extension of certain product specific exclusions and certain manufacturing equipment exclusions from Section 301 duties on imports of Chinese goods through Nov. 29, 2025.

The NCBFAA Customs Committee and Counsel of Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., is actively tracking the impacts of the Aug. 29 suspension of de minimis for all commercial shipments, as well as the imposition of additional tariffs on Indian products. In addition, the Committee is closely monitoring the ongoing discussions between the U.S. and EU to reach a new trade agreement.

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a final rule to remove entities from the Validated End-User (VEU) authorization list for China.

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday evening, Aug. 29, released its decision in V.O.S. Selections, Inc. v. Trump, the case challenging the IEEPA Reciprocal, IEEPA Fentanyl (China), and IEEPA Border (CA/MX) tariffs.

Customs and Border Protection on Aug. 29 provided guidance to the trade on the extension of certain product specific exclusions and certain manufacturing equipment exclusions from Section 301 duties on imports of Chinese goods through Nov. 29, 2025.

The NCBFAA Customs Committee and Counsel of Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., is actively tracking the impacts of the Aug. 29 suspension of de minimis for all commercial shipments, as well as the imposition of additional tariffs on Indian products. In addition, the Committee is closely monitoring the ongoing discussions between the U.S. and EU to reach a new trade agreement.

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) completed its comparability findings for all worldwide fisheries under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The Federal Register notice will be published Sept 2.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) today announced the extension of exclusions in the Section 301 Investigation of China’s Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation. The exclusions were previously scheduled to expire on Aug. 31. The exclusions have now been extended through Nov. 29, 2025.

FIATA reminds air freight forwarders that new European Union (EU) requirements will enter into force under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/920, effective Sept. 1. These requirements apply to Regulated Agents (RAs), which are entities formally approved by the competent EU authority to apply security controls to cargo.

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday evening, Aug. 29, released its decision in V.O.S. Selections, Inc. v. Trump, the case challenging the IEEPA Reciprocal, IEEPA Fentanyl (China), and IEEPA Border (CA/MX) tariffs.

Customs and Border Protection on Aug. 29 provided guidance to the trade on the extension of certain product specific exclusions and certain manufacturing equipment exclusions from Section 301 duties on imports of Chinese goods through Nov. 29, 2025.

The NCBFAA Customs Committee and Counsel of Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., is actively tracking the impacts of the Aug. 29 suspension of de minimis for all commercial shipments, as well as the imposition of additional tariffs on Indian products. In addition, the Committee is closely monitoring the ongoing discussions between the U.S. and EU to reach a new trade agreement.

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a final rule to remove entities from the Validated End-User (VEU) authorization list for China.