International Trade Law News

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted the agenda for this week's sold-out Trade Symposium entitled "Globalizing Trade Security and Facilitation: Realizing the Promise of the WCO Framework." While much of the program will once again be devoted to trade security issues, CBP appears to have received the message from the trade community of the need for CBP to refocus its attention on traditional trade compliance issues. As a result, the first program will feature subject matter experts from several CBP offices involved with trade (OR&R, Fines & Penalties, etc.) to discuss a variety of current compliance issues. The symposium's agenda can be found at the following link (opens as a Word document). CBP has requested participants to submit advance questions to the panelists by sending an e-mail to traderelations@dhs.gov and including the phrase "Question for Trade Symposium" in the subject line and identifying the panel or discussion group the question is intended for. CBP will forward the questions to the panel moderators.