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Trade Lawyers Blog has posted summary & analysis of a recent presentation by CBP covering the noncompliance of imported textile & wearing apparel from China. Here is an excerpt:

The GAO (General Accountability Office) just came out with a new report calling for increases to the FDA's authority over imported food items in our supply chains.

Are you interested in learning about the best practices of firms qualifying product for NAFTA and other Free Trade Agreements?

Management Dynamics will be exhibiting at ICPA’s First Annual European Conference, in Amsterdam June 13 – 15. If you have not registered yet, it’s not too late. (We’d love to see you there!)

Conference sessions will include:

• Trade Compliance Implications of Simplified EU Law
• Confronted with an Audit: The Do’s and Don’ts
• Customs Classification –The Latest Developments in EU Law
• The Impact of the AEO Legislation: Lessons Learned from the Pilot Project & Implementations in Other Member States
• Compliance with EU Sanctions
• Export Control Fundamentals for Trade Compliance Managers
• Introduction to Customs Valuation and Transfer Pricing
• VAT Implications of Transfer Pricing & Customs Adjustments
• Centralized Clearing
• Rules of Origin
• IT Challenges in Effective Export Control Compliance
• Conducting Effective Internal Audits: Best Practices
• Tariff Engineering: Developments, Issues & Opportunities
• Risk Determination for Export Compliance
• EU Trade Compliance Share Forum: Overview & Proceedings

2010 Direct Import Survey:

Global Semiconductor Provider Completes Enterprise-wide Implementation
of Export Compliance Solution

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ, April 21, 2010 -- Management Dynamics, a leading provider of Global Trade Management (GTM) solutions, today announced that Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) implemented its Export Compliance solution to automate and maintain compliance with international export regulations.

The enterprise-class on-demand solution has enabled Infineon to streamline its process for license determination and sanctioned party screening across its high volume, highly complex supply chain.

Screening over 10,000 daily transactions across 12,000 customers worldwide, Infineon needed a robust and scalable solution to automate compliance with all export regulations for shipping products to foreign countries, as well as the measures to ensure compliance with national and international anti-terrorism regulations.

I'm not quite seeing the link between a color-changing billboard and a smarter supply chain (If you get it, please explain in the comments) but this is a very interesting video.

Please take a minute to answer the following unscientific and highly subjective poll! Based on your answers, I will feature more posts on these exciting trade compliance categories in the future.

World Trade Magazine will be presenting an upcoming webinar on direct import in the global supply chain on Tuesday, May 25th at 2:00 pm EST.