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Day 185: 3/19/20

Intentions:

Punches be happening so let’s keep with the rolling.

Yesterday:

The race has officially been cancelled. Knew it was coming so not a huge surprise. Not quite sure what I’ll do about it. I guess we can still run it virtually/on our own it we want the medal/t-shirt/qualifying time for another race. None of that is important to me. We might be able to roll our registration to next year. Not sure if I can just get a refund. I’ll wait for more information. My calf is still hurt, I think I’m down for a month. This isn’t the worst thing for me exactly, and with so many more important things happening it’s hard to be worried about this. It’ll be what it will be.

Still no official word from CBP on the broker exam other than it has been pushed back. I’m certain it’s cancelled. I’ll also just go with the flow. Nothing I can do about it so there is zero reason to stress.

Finished season 3 of “GLOW” on Netflix. Wow, that was good TV.

Alright, let’s start this day. Have a good one y’all!

Troy

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Guide to becoming licensed custom brokers in Pennsylvania

The logistics business is quite complex in terms of both investment and qualification. Licensed custom brokers are individuals, associations, corporations, or partnerships that are licensed and regulated by U.S Customs and Border protection which is also known CBP.

If you want to enter into the Customs broker business, here are four things to remember:

Eligibility

To become a customs broker in Pennsylvania, you must be a U.S. citizen aged 18 years. Also, you are not allowed to be a federal government employee at the time of the customs broker exam.

Knowledge of importing

It is essential that you understand the entry procedures, entry requirements, valuation, fines and penalties, classification, and the rates including duty taxes, and fees for imported goods. The licensed broker, you submit necessary information and appropriate payments to CBP on behalf of clients and charge the clients a nominal fee for this service. Now, you need to demonstrate this by passing an exam, which is the next step.

You must pass an exam

The exam is given on the fourth Wednesday in April and the fourth Wednesday in October. Ensure that you apply at a port where you want to practice or transact customs business as a customs broker in Pennsylvania. Remember that you are responsible for bringing proof that you meet all the eligibility such as ID proof, photo ID, etc.

Submit a License application and pay appropriate fees

If you pass the exam, the nominal fee for the broker license application is $200. It is crucial to go through the investigation including fingerprint analysis and a character review along with the credit reports, and any asset records/

If you want to become licensed custom brokers in Pennsylvania, then make sure to visit Worldwide Express for more information!

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October 08, 2019 at 03:21AM

The Trump Administration is blocking shipments from a Chinese company making baby pajamas sold at Costco warehouses, after the foreign manufacturer was accused of forcing ethnic minorities locked in an internment camp to sew clothes against their will.

The government is also blocking rubber gloves sold by industry leader Ansell whose customers include surgeons, mechanics and scientists around the U.S., accusing a Malaysian manufacturer of staffing its factories with migrants from Bangladesh, Nepal and other countries who went into crushing debt from paying exorbitant recruitment fees. Imports of bone charcoal from Brazil that firms like Plymouth Technology and ResinTech Inc. used to remove contaminants in U.S. water systems, diamonds from Zimbabwe and gold from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, were stopped as well.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Oct. 1 slapped rare detention orders on goods imported from an unprecedented five countries in one day based on allegations that people producing those items might be children, or adults subjected to forced labor. The orders are used to hold shipping containers at the U.S. ports of entry until the agency can investigate the claims of wrongdoing.

CBP did not release information about the companies that were importing the goods covered by last week’s detention orders. But The Associated Press tracked items to several buyers, including Costco and the U.S. subsidiary of Ansell, an Australian protective gloves manufacturer. The companies said they were not aware that their products were being made with forced labor.

Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan said the orders, the most issued in a single day, “shows that if we suspect a product is made using forced labor, we’ll take that product off U.S. shelves.”

Custom’s action last week is sending ripples globally, with exporters now on notice to improve labor conditions. Domestically, some U.S. importers were shaken to learn their products might have been made by people forced to work against their will or under threat of punishment. Human rights experts warn as many as 25 million people globally are victims of forced labor. In recent years, investigations by media organizations and advocacy groups have tracked products suspected of being made by forced labor as they travel from manufacturers, through brokers and dealers, into the hands of American consumers.

“CBP’s announcement is significant because of the unprecedented number of actions and for the message that it sends across corporate supply chains,” said labor advocates at Humanity United and Freedom Fund in a joint statement. “We know that myriad imported goods U.S. consumers enjoy every day — from clothing to electronics to chocolate, fruits and vegetables, and other foods — are likely tainted by forced labor in their supply chains. Making real progress to change this will require a concerted effort across and outside of government, including through strong enforcement of existing laws like this.”

Until recently, the detentions orders used to block the shipments last week would have been almost impossible.

Before 2016, the Tariff Act — which gave Customs and Border Protection the authority to seize shipments where forced labor was suspected and block further imports — had been used only 39 times over its first 85 years, largely because of two words: “consumptive demand” —meaning if there was not sufficient supply to meet domestic demand, imports were allowed regardless of how they were produced.

After an AP investigation found that seafood caught by slaves in Southeast Asia was ending up in restaurants and markets around the U.S. with impunity because of the loophole, Congress and President Barrack Obama changed the law . Since then, under both the Obama and Trump administrations, CBP has used its detention authority 12 times to stop shipments, including those last week.

Under the law, U.S. importers have 90 days to prove no forced labor was used to produce their products. If they can’t, they can either ship their products to another country or surrender them to Customs.

Costco pajamas

One major case from last week involves China’s Hetian Taida Apparel, which AP reported last year was forcing Uigher Muslims and other ethnic minorities to sew clothes for U.S. importers inside a Chinese re-education camp.

This was one of a growing number of internment camps in China’s far western Xinjiang region, where by some estimates 1 million Muslims are politically indoctrinated while detained and forced to give up their language and their religion. The Washington-based Worker Rights Consortium published further evidence this year that Hetian Taida was doing business both inside a camp, and at nearby state-subsidized factories where detainees are sent once they are released.

In response, Hetian Taida’s U.S. buyer Badger Sportswear, in Statesville, North Carolina, cut off imports and Hetian Taida stopped exporting to the U.S., according to records published by ImportGenius, which tracks shipping activity around the world.

But last month, Costco Wholesale Corp. began importing baby pajamas made by the company. On September 21, 2019 and again on Sept. 26, 2019, Hetian Taida sent shipping containers filled with 100% polyester blanket sleepers for babies and toddlers to the U.S., labeled for Costco, according to shipping records.

In an interview with the AP, Costco officials said “we believe (the baby sleepers) were made in a factory other than the one that was the subject of the CBP detention order. As the facts develop, we’re prepared to consider what action we should take relative to the issue of a supplier to our supplier owning factories that may have problems.”

As of last weekend, the microfleece, zippered pajamas, sold under the label Absorba, were seen by an AP reporter on some Costco shelves in packs of two, for $14.99.

Scott Nova, executive director of Worker Rights Consortium, said he was shocked that Costco agreed to do business with a firm already associated with China’s re-education camps. “The Chinese government has created a human rights nightmare for the Uighur people and Hetian Taida has been an active partner in Beijing’s brutality. The company’s use of forced labor is well documented and CBP is right to act,” said Nova.

Reached by phone on Monday, Hetian Taida Chairman Wu Hongbo told the AP that the company will cooperate with U.S. Customs and provide the agency with any documents it needs. Wu declined to answer further questions and said he has chosen to reject all media interview requests.

Rubber gloves

Meanwhile in Malaysia, which supplies half of the world’s medical exam and surgical gloves, government and industry officials were shaken that one of their own — WRP Asia Pacific — had its products detained by Customs for allegations of forced labor.

The news sent Malaysian ministry officials immediately to the U.S. Embassy for information on how much of the rubber glove industry would be affected by the U.S. government actions. It later sparked an anxious rubber glove manufacturer’s town hall.

“The industry has since last year worked on social compliance initiatives in order to continuously improve the welfare of the employees in the rubber glove industry,” the Malaysian Rubber Export Promotion Council said in a statement.

Workers at WRP and many other rubber glove factories have been forced to pay staggering fees as high as $5,000 in their home countries, including Bangladesh and Nepal, for jobs that don’t meet their promise, said activist Andy Hall, who has advocated on behalf of Southeast Asian migrant laborers. Some of the rubber glove makers don’t pay workers for months, house them in unkempt and overcrowded conditions, hold their passports so they can’t leave and don’t allow them to quit, he said.

Hall said CBP’s detention orders “fired a starting gun to warn both Malaysian and Thai governments that rubber manufactured products like gloves, condoms, medical equipment as well as an array of other labor intensive products from the region that are currently manufactured using systemic migrant forced labor cannot be exported to the US.”

WRP importers include some of the leading medical suppliers in the U.S. like global giant Ansell, as well as smaller firms like Bay Medical Company Inc. in Brisbane, California.

In a statement, Ansell said it was ending its business with WRP: “Ansell takes the labor practices of these third-party suppliers seriously, and any allegations of forced labor among the company’s suppliers are of the highest concern. ”

Bay Medical’s owner David Dorris was visiting WRP last week in Malaysia when he heard, first-hand, that his shipping container had been detained.

“We were completely blindsided,” he said. “It’s deeply disturbing for me personally and for our company.”

Dorris said he hopes the accusations are not true.

Bone charcoal, gold and diamonds

Bone charcoal manufacturer, Bonechar Carvão Ativado Ltd. in southern Brazil, said accusations leading to its CBP detention order came from a competitor’s unfounded smear campaign. Bone charcoal is made by workers who burn animal bones, mostly cattle, in sealed ovens at temperatures as high as 1,292 F (700 C). CBP alleged that Bonechar Carvão has deceptive hiring practices and abusive living and working condition.

Bonechar Carvão owner Francisco Meira said their workers are not abused, and that U.S. Customs blocked the shipment based on false allegations that have been investigated and dismissed by Brazilian authorities. Prosecutors concluded Bonechar was “framed in a criminal scam,” according to documents filed with the Office of the US Trade Representative in April 2019.

A handful of U.S. companies imported bone charcoal from the Brazilian company last year, mostly for use in water filtration, pigments and sugar refining, according to shipping records from ImportGenius. These included Plymouth Technology in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Ebonex Corporation near Detroit, ResinTech Inc. in West Berlin, New Jersey and American Charcoal Co. in Jackson, Wyoming.

AP reached out to all the firms for comment. Ebonex Corporation, the only company that responded to AP’s queries, said they were aware of the trade dispute, and that they didn’t believe Bonechar abused workers and wouldn’t import from them if they do. The other companies could not be reached for comment.

The CBP action also covers any gold mined at small artisanal mines in eastern Congo and all rough diamonds from the Marange diamond fields in Zimbabwe, areas with a history of conflict and abuse and already subject to other U.S. sanctions. Those imports are harder to track, because they aren’t specific companies.

Zimbabwe’s government, which insists it has cleaned up its diamond industry, called the U.S. decision “a blatant and shameless lie.”

Further north, in the Congo, as much as $600 million of gold smuggled out annually, often by armed groups responsible for ongoing deadly attacks, according to the United Nations. The Congolese Embassy in Washington D.C. did not respond to calls from the AP.

Advocates lauded the new orders on Congo’s gold.

“Customs action sends a strong signal to U.S. tech, financial, and other companies: either do their homework on gold from Congo and countries it is smuggled or refined in, or risk having their shipments stopped at the border,” said Sasha Lezhnev at the Washington-based Enough Project, which supports peace in Africa’s conflict zones.

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Customs Clearance Services in Bangalore

Traditions broking or traditions financier is a calling that includes the "clearing" of products through traditions hindrances for shippers and exporters (typically organizations). This includes the readiness of reports or potentially electronic entries, the count and installment of charges, obligations and extracts, and encouraging correspondence between government experts and shippers and exporters.

Custom dealers might be utilized by or partnered with cargo forwarders, free organizations, or delivery lines, merchants, exporters, exchange experts, and traditions financier firms.

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Traditions intermediaries in the United States get ready and submit documentation to inform or get freedom from government organizations, for example, the U.S. Nourishment and Drug Administration, the U.S. Division of Agriculture, and the Fish and Wildlife Service. They additionally organize the transhipment (i.e., neighborhood conveyance) of product through trucking organizations. Numerous traditions intermediaries have practical experience in specific products like attire, perishables, or clearing the team and show of huge load vessels. Traditions dealers can be situated at inland ports to clear product sent "in bond", yet most are situated at significant airplane terminals and harbors with global traffic.

Capabilities

US Customs merchant licenses are issued and supervised by U.S. Traditions and Border Protection (CBP). The prerequisites overseeing US Customs representative licenses, including qualification, are spread out in Title 19, Part 111 of the United States Code of Federal Regulations (19 CFR 111). These guidelines grant the two people and organizations to acquire Customs merchants licenses, however the application procedure and general principles overseeing each kind of permit contrast from one another.

To be qualified to get for a US Customs merchant permit, an individual candidate must fulfill a few necessities: first, the person must pass the US Customs Broker License Exam (CBLE) with a score of 75% or higher; at the very latest the date of utilization, the person must be a United States native, more likely than not accomplished the age of 21, and must not be a government worker; and the individual must be of good character. The individual must present his or her permit application, alongside permit application expense, inside three years of having passed the CBLE. This multi year time limit is determined from the date of the letter advising the examinee that the individual passed the CBLE.

Endless supply of a permit application bundle, CBP audits it on its benefits.

Permit qualification for non-people is unique. So as to be qualified to acquire a US Customs representative permit, an organization must have in any event one individual from the association who is a specialist. An affiliation or company must, first, be enabled under its articles of affiliation or articles of joining to execute traditions business as an agent, and second, have in any event one officer who is a representative.

Traditions representative licensees are not government workers and ought not be mistaken for "traditions officers" (in different nations, in any case, the two terms might be compatible). Traditions merchants should be comfortable with the levy plan, a posting of obligation rates for imported things, CATAIR, the statutory and administrative principles administering importations, and other exchange related issues. To outline, a traditions agent may need to exhort a merchant on the checking necessities of the nation of cause, or complete administrative work for a garments shipment subject to quantities and visa prerequisites. Knowing the prerequisites of each kind of import can keep away from exorbitant deferrals, stock seizures, and fines and punishments that might be exacted against the shipper and additionally specialist.

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What is a special examination for the Customs Broker License?

The regular Customs Broker Exam is held twice a year on the fourth Wednesday in April and October unless the regularly scheduled examination date conflicts with a national holiday, religious observance, or other foreseeable event in which case the CBP will publish an appropriate notice of a change in the examination date in the Federal Register.

However, in circumstances where a brokerage is at risk of losing its license by operation of law before the next scheduled examination, CBP may, at the request of the brokerage and on payment of the associated expenses, conduct a special examination for the Customs Broker License, for a prospective applicant for an individual license, who would serve as the required licensed member or officer for the brokerage.

 Under § 111.11(b) to qualify for a broker’s license, a partnership must have at least one member of the partnership who is a broker.

Under § 111.11 (c) to qualify for a broker’s license, an association or corporation must have at least one officer who is a broker.

Under § 1641(b)(5) the failure of a customs broker that is licensed as a corporation, association, or partnership … to have, for any continuous period of 120 days, at least one officer of the corporation or association, or at least one member of the partnership, validly licensed [as a broker] … shall, …, result in the revocation by operation of law of its license.

Further, under § 111.45(a) if a broker that is a partnership, association, or corporation fails to have, during any continuous period of 120 days, at least one member of the partnership or at least one officer of the association or corporation who holds a valid individual broker’s license, that failure will result in the revocation by operation of law of the license and any permits issued to the partnership, association, or corporation.

Under § 111.13 (c) if a partnership, association, or corporation loses the required member or officer having an individual broker’s license and its license would be revoked by operation of law before the next scheduled examination, CBP may authorize a special examination for a prospective applicant for an individual license who would serve as the required licensed member or officer. CBP may also authorize a special examination for an individual for purposes of continuing the business of a sole proprietorship broker.

A special examination for an individual may also be authorized by CBP if a brokerage firm loses the individual broker who was exercising responsible supervision and control over an office in another district and the permit for that additional district would be revoked by operation of law before the next scheduled examination.

A request for a special examination must be submitted to the Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Trade, in writing and must describe the circumstances giving rise to the need for the examination. If the request is granted, the Executive Assistant Commissioner will notify the prospective examinee of the exact time and place for the examination. If the individual attains a passing grade on the special examination, the application for the license may be submitted in accordance with § 111.12.

The examinee will be responsible for all additional costs incurred by CBP in preparing and administering the special examination that exceed the $390 examination fee prescribed in § 111.96(a), and those additional costs must be reimbursed to CBP before the examination is given.

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What to study for the Customs Broker Exam?

According to CBP, exam topics typically include: Entry; Classification; Trade Agreements; Valuation; Broker Compliance; Power of Attorney; Marking; Drawback; Bonds; Foreign Trade Zones; Warehouse Entries; Intellectual Property Rights; and other subjects pertinent to a broker’s duties.

Further, the Customs Broker License Examination is a four and half hour long, open book test, consisting of 80 multiple-choice questions based on designated editions of:

The Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS)

Title 19, Code of Federal Regulations

Specified Customs Directives

Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements document (CATAIR)

We have reviewed all the questions set in the past 20 exams over the last 10 years (from April 2008 to April 2017) and identified the 16 tested topics with relative percentage of questions asked from each topic. This information is arranged in descending order of importance on our blog @ Customs Broker Exam Prep.

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