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Can Officers and Employees be Held Personally Liable for Customs Violations?

CH Robinson Transportfolio

However, in March 2014, the Government requested an en banc rehearing by the CAFC on the matter of personal liability. On September 16, 2014, the CAFC reversed its original decision and ruled that Trek Leather’s owner was, in fact, personally liable. Global Transportation Supply Chain Supply Chain Consulting'

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An update on required ‘Conflict’ Metals reporting…

Operations and Supply Chain Management

By John Kester and Maxwell Murphy June 2, 2014 7:28 p.m. ” Lawrence Heim, a director at Elm Sustainability Partners LLC, which advises companies on conflict minerals disclosure, said, “The credibility and the certainty of the data, through the supply chain, doesn’t really exist completely. Crew Group Inc.,