CTP experts work for public and private clients around the globe. See below for our latest papers, articles, and announcements.
Customs compliance professionals must understand and prepare for new applications of the Harmonized System (HS) to ensure they are prepared to address emerging supply chain challenges while complying with applicable laws and regulations.
Today marks the one month countdown until the April 1st start of the H-1B visa cap season. For those that are unfamiliar, the H-1B visa program is used by U.S. businesses to employ foreign workers for positions that require highly specialized knowledge.
We all recognize risks, consciously and unconsciously. We are careful near cliffs or driving at high speed; we watch our diet and we manage our investments. We look out for our kids before – and sometimes after – they know how to care for themselves.
Conducting an export control audit is essential to any successful export compliance program. It is critical that all companies subject to U.S. export control laws maintain export compliance programs and routinely audit their effectiveness and efficiency.
Do you understand the difference between the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) and Schedule B? Exporters often use these terms interchangeably. Technically, however, they serve very different purposes.
If you can’t make the Update conference in DC next week, BIS is offering the next best thing. Assistant Secretary Kevin Wolf will conduct an Open Forum by teleconference next week to offer a summary of recent ECR developments. Access instructions are in the full BIS announcement, below.
There is a confluence of export control activities in Washington, D.C. The Society for International Affairs (SIA) recently completed their fall compliance conference earlier this week and the annual “Update” conference held by the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is from November 2, 2015 until November 4, 2015.
In coordinated announcements last week, BIS and DDTC proposed many new or altered definitions that attempt to harmonize comparable terms in the EAR and ITAR. The DDTC proposal includes, among many others, a new definition of “defense services.”
CTP’s West Africa Regional Training Center (RTC) in Accra, Ghana is in full swing this month. Students and instructors have already completed courses on “Fundamental Investigative Criminal Analysis” (FICA) and “Financial Investigations.” The FICA course included participants from Ghana, Nigeria and Cote D’Ivoire.
According to an Industry Notice posted on the U.S. Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) website, effective Monday, April 20, 2015, the Office of Defense Trade Controls Licensing (DTCL) will undergo a reorganization.
Founded in 1965, the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition brings the U.S. defense industrial base, private-sector U.S. companies and key military decision makers together for an annual innovative, educational, and professional event.
At CTP Compliance, we’ve seen these scenarios repeatedly for over twenty years. While we prefer to work proactively, classifying your items methodically in advance, we have also done hundreds of last-minute, Just in Time classifications.
Please complete the form.A member of the CTP team will be in touch soon!