In March 2025, in a similar blog post to this one, Nithya Nagarajan and Robert Romashko forecasted that False Claims Act (“FCA”) enforcement would increase under the current tariff-focused trade policy regime. Sure enough,...more
8/13/2025
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On August 10, 2020 Customs issued a notice announcing that goods produced in Hong Kong and exported to the U.S. must now be marked as a product of China (e.g., Made in China). To see our previous post on the issue, click...more
On April 20, 2020, the Secretary of the Treasury and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced via the CBP Customs Service Messaging System (CSMS #4243171) that they would be postponing the deadline for payment for...more
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) announced in CSMS #42364745, issued April 14, 2020, that due to the high volume of inquiries the agency is migrating from its COVID-19 Relief Imports email address to the COVID-19...more
On March 24, 2020 the New York Field Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued Informational Pipeline 20-001-NYFO concerning Imports of Pandemic Response Materials in response to increased COVID-19 cases in the...more