Williams Mullen hired Robert Zuckerman, general counsel at Horizon Lines, as Of Counsel in the firm's Virginia Beach, Va., office. Zuckerman will remain vice president-law and government affairs at Horizon Lines.
Tim Warren
Timothy Warren is Executive Managing Editor of Communications Daily. He previously led the International Trade Today editorial team from the time it was purchased by Warren Communications News in 2012 through the launch of Export Compliance Daily and Trade Law Daily. Tim is a 2005 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and lives in Maryland with his wife and three kids.
Static Control Seeks Remanufacturer Protection Language for Proposed CBP Counterfeit Trademark Rules
U.S. Customs and Border Protection should make changes to language in a proposed rule that would amend CBP's regulations on importing merchandise bearing recorded trademarks or recorded trade names, said Static Control Components in comments filed at CBP. The company said the new wording is necessary to allow for the legal movement of products for "remanufacturers," which refurbish used products and continue to use the products' trademarks for to ensure compatibility, said Static.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
Thomas Fusco, formerly supervisory attorney in the office of unfair import investigations at the International Trade Commission, was hired as counsel at Fish & Richardson.
The effective date of a U.S. law requiring 100% shipping container scanning has been quietly pushed back from July 1, 2012 to 2014, to the great relief of the EU, we've learned. The “Implementing recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007,” which requires every U.S.-bound maritime container to be scanned and reviewed by U.S. customs officers before it's loaded aboard a ship, has proved a political irritant between the EU and U.S., said Lilian Bertin, head of sector, U.S. and Canada, in the European Commission Taxation and Customs Union Directorate's international coordination unit, in an interview Thursday. The EU favors a risk management-based approach, he said. Europe has been lobbying for repeal for five years, he said, but the issue is caught up in a split between the Obama Administration and Congress.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
The House Natural Resources Committee gave its approval June 7 to HR-3210, the Retailers and Entertainers Lacey Implementation and Enforcement Fairness (RELIEF) Act. If enacted, the bill would amend the Lacey Act to exempt its application to pre-2008 plant imports and products. An amendment introduced by Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) removed provisions that would require a new certification process, adequate funding for the processing of declarations, Federal Trade Commission review etc.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was last updated June 7 with 116 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 171,534. The most recent ruling is dated 5/25/2012 12:00:00 AM
An update to U.S. Customs and Border Protection 19 CFR Parts 111 rules will take at least a year to be finalized, said Elena Ryan, Acting Director of Trade Facilitation and Administration at CBP. Ryan spoke June 7 during CBP’s first of several Webinars focused on the “Role of the Broker.” CBP is also in the "final stages" of putting together a Federal Register notice that will announce CBP's Importers Self-Assessment (ISA) pre-certification program, which will allow accredited brokers to assess their clients' readiness to participate in the ISA program. That notice should be out in the next few months, she said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will hold two Webinars for carriers and software developers who haven't started the transition from AMS to eManifest: Rail and Sea (M1). CBP will shut down AMS on Sept. 29, leaving M1 as the only electronic filing environment.