Let’s take another look at Trade Compliance in Japan! Tatsuya has posted that Japan Customs under the Ministry of Finance (“MOF”) conducts post-entry audit every year to review the import declarations to see if companies are paying the correct amount of duties and taxes… and this year was not good!! From July 2009 to June [...]
The US Bureau of Industry & Security has updated their Major Case List (PDF). Of note: On May 14, 2009, Joseph Piquet was sentenced 60 months in prison and two years of probation based on his role in a conspiracy to purchase high-tech, military-use electronic components (such as high power amplifiers for use in early [...]
Via the Environmental News Service, a near-global effort in governments across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Africa has resulted in 57 successful seizures, amounting to 30,000 tons of illegal hazardous waste. Over the course of 50 days “Operation Demeter” identified high-risk shipments and shared information across customs agencies and ports to target illicit cross-border shipments of hazardous [...]
