#11 Appeals, U.S. Updates + more!

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Nadeem Virk
October 20, 2024

Hi there,

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Training Updates

Have you checked out our new Website design? If not, go to www.virktradecompliance.com and check it out! There are many exciting updates happening in the next few months.

Meanwhile, if you are Customs Brokerage Sales Rep, you can check out the training on how to ensure you are reaching your potential clients here (https://virktradecompliance.com/courses/).

While you are at our website, you should also check out my Student Portal. It’s a must if you are preparing to take the exam.

If you are taking the the U.S. CBLE and wondering if Appeals help, here is the proof:

Global Trade Compliance Updates

  • U.S. Customs Broker Exam - it’s coming up fast. If you’re not ready, you’re not ready. Get prepping for the next one.

  • The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced its plan to accelerate the adoption and testing of global interoperability standards.

  • U.S. President Biden signed a bill that extended the statute of limitations for sanctions violations from five to ten years.

  • The United States Trade Representative (USTR) released a final report on the Section 301 investigation and confirmed plans to raise tariffs on specific products.

  • The U.S. CBP revamped its Forced Labor website with navigation improvements and a new enforcement page.

  • The U.S. has trade disputes with many countries over issues such as Section 232 duties on steel and aluminum, digital services taxes, and subsidies and incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

Compliance Tips

If you are doing audits that involve other parties, make sure to put deadlines to everything. This means deadline to when you should reach out to them for the audit you do, deadline for them to respond to you with root cause analysis, and so on. Without deadlines, you’re just going to keep falling behind.

Career Advise

I mentioned it on my LinkedIn post - but if unless you are just a high school graduate with no Trade Compliance background, you should not be getting paid less than $40,000 USD.

Join the Students who have already taken my Trade Compliance courses:

If you are studying for the U.S. Customs Broker Exam (or know of someone else that is):

This Student Portal has all the goodies to help you pass: https://virktradecompliance.circle.so/c/lectures/

I also have the CBLE Exam lecture as individual to buy: https://virktradecompliance.com/customs-broker-exam/

See you next week!

Nadeem

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