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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

In April of 2022, British American Tobacco, headquartered in the UK, agreed to pay $508 million in fines for selling their products to North Korea. First, even if fines are not applied, goods moving across borders with incorrect documentation can be held up at the border. Treasury Department. For example, the U.S.

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Made in “I Really Don’t Know”

Talking Logistics

As first reported by Fairfax Media , a factory in North Korea has been making high-priced surf and snow gear for Australian surfwear company Rip Curl since at least 2014, with the garments labeled “Made in China.” We do not approve or authorise any production of Rip Curl products out of North Korea.”

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Export Compliance 101

Arena Solutions

Syria, Iran, North Korea, or Cuba? It is a release or exposure to technology or software source code to a foreign national, a non-U.S. That’s a process where you basically document what happened, what you’re doing to correct that immediately, what long-term remediation programs you have. to that particular country?