Join our webinar, Best Practices for Managing Free Trade Agreement Management Processes, to learn how your company can successfully implement and optimize NAFTA. Broadcasting live on Tuesday, April 19 at 2pm EDT, presenters will address key findings from this industry benchmark study. Presenters include:

Join our webinar, Best Practices for Managing Free Trade Agreement Management Processes, to learn how your company can successfully implement and optimize NAFTA. Broadcasting live on Tuesday, April 19 at 2pm EDT, presenters will address key findings from this industry benchmark study. Presenters include:

The United States and Colombia finally inked a deal on a free trade agreement after Colombia agreed to increase the protection of their workers and union leaders.

Both importers and exporters can realize cost savings with the help of Free Trade Agreements, such as NAFTA. After surveying import and export compliance managers from 200 firms, Customs & Trade Solutions, Inc. and Management Dynamics have uncovered key trends in managing the complex Free Trade Management process.

From the strict controls and highly filtered content, including the famously obvious "Tianneman Square" Google search, to the blocking of hugely popular social networking sites, namely Facebook, China's online censorship has always been viewed as an unjust and uncompromising policy that is likely only to get stricter. However, the advent of social networking popularity and the exponential growth of online transactions (which are often international) has boosted the internet's business value to an unprecedented level, and sparked a discussion of whether China's censorship should be taken more seriously.

What: Free Webinar: Best Practices for Managing Free Trade Agreement Management Processes

When: Tuesday, April 19 at 2pm EST
Where: Online

Given the advantages of NAFTA and other free trade agreements, exporters and importers seek to widen the advantages of reduced duty impact by participating in trade agreements. After surveying import and export compliance managers from 200 firms, Customs & Trade Solutions Inc. and Management Dynamics have uncovered key trends in managing the complex Free Trade Management process.

India and Japan signed a free trade agreement February 16th, eliminating tariffs on 94% of goods between the two countries within ten years and making the two countries each other’s biggest free-trade partners. The two are now Asia's second and third largest economies after China. The deal comes as Japan looks to expand its markets and improve its competitiveness in relation to South Korea and China, reported the Wall Street Journal. India anticipates the Free Trade Agreement will not only increase its exports but gain the country access to cheaper imports. The FTA is Japan’s twelfth, reported the Journal of Commerce. Currently two-way trade between the two countries totals less than one percent of Japan’s total foreign trade.

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Since December, when President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak announced that they made further progress on the US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS-FTA), the agreement has been highly debated on its way to Congress. In order for the measure to take effect, both the Congress of the United States and the Congress of South Korea must ratify the agreement.

a guest blog by Nigel Fortlage of International Trade Compliance Strategy at GHY.

An industry leading organization specializing in window covering was able to save over $6M in duty as a result of having an effective integrated trade compliance strategy. By coordinating NAFTA with organizational processes by use of a compliance champion, the company was able to assign tariff to every item.