Trade Compliance Blog

On October 12, the United States Congress ratified several landmark free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. While still awaiting the President’s signature, which is expected, these agreements are sure to usher in a new level of trade activity with these countries. Proponents list a host of benefits from FTAs, including: – [...]

Part Two: Product Classification Join Customs & Trade Solutions, Inc. and Management Dynamics for a complimentary three-part Export Compliance Webinar Series, which will address the three key steps of any Export Compliance Program (ECP): Restricted Party Screening, Product Classification, and Shipment Screening and Documentation. The second webinar will be held on Friday, October 21st at 2:00pm EDT [...]

The World Customs Organization (WCO) will soon make significant changes to the Harmonized System (HS).  This could have a major impact on your company’s global trade process and international supply chain.  Find out how you can tackle these issues by listening to Management Dynamics’ latest podcast, Compliance 101: Research Tools for Getting Started in Trade [...]

Part One: Restricted Party Screening Join Customs & Trade Solutions, Inc. and Management Dynamics for a complimentary three-part Export Compliance Webinar Series, which will address the three key steps of any Export Compliance Program (ECP): Restricted Party Screening, Product Classification, and Shipment Screening and Documentation. The first webinar will be held on Tuesday, September 20th at 2:00pm [...]

Management Dynamics, a leading provider of global trade management solutions, today announced that TALIS Group, a world-leading provider of water valves and services for the whole water cycle, has gone live with the Management Dynamics’ Export On-Demand solution for restricted party screening (RPS). Deploying Export On-Demand is a foundation technology for TALIS’s goal of centralizing [...]

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently released a new set of best practices that are aimed at helping exporters, re-exporters and freight forwarders guard against the diversion of dual use items shipped to a transshipment hub.  While transshipments are a growing part of international trade and offer many benefits, [...]

According to a recent article by Information Week, the U.S. government is continuously encouraging small businesses to sell their products and services overseas as part of a broader strategy that is led by the National Export Initiative. One of the challenges these businesses face as they tap into new markets is maintaining trade compliance. Global trade [...]

Broadcasting live on Wednesday, August 24 at 2pm EDT, “Best Practices in Integrating Logistics and Compliance Management” will take a close look at the ins and outs of integrating logistics and compliance management. During the one-hour webinar, key industry experts will discuss the market dynamics driving importers to consider this strategy, and Management Dynamics customer [...]

Enhanced Restricted Party Screening and License Determination and Management among New Features Management Dynamics today announced the release of Export On-Demand 1.2, its export compliance solution for small and medium-sized exporters. The new release provides for enhanced compliance screening and management of export licenses. Easily configured and deployed in a SaaS-based model, Export On-Demand can [...]

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently published proposed changes to US export law in the Federal Register and asked for public comment. The changes primarily deal with the fact that the US has two lists for items that require export control and licensing:  the US Munitions List (USML) administered by the State Department, [...]