Robert B. Silverman
Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt LLP
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Doing Business In China Has Been Through Evolution, But It's Still Not The Same As Home
The Early Years At our law firm we have been regaled with stories from some of the old time China traders, who were buying goods in China back in the day when there was no direct transportation route to the United States. Logistics was a nightmare. Goods had to be trucked to Hong Kong and...
Read MoreLegislative Update: Companies Importing Goods Into The U.S. Will Be Subject To New Reporting Requirements In The Near Future
In recent years, costs arising from the importation of goods into the United States have declined steadily. Import duty has been eliminated or reduced on many imported products, entries can be filed electronically, and many archaic reporting requirements have been eliminated. However, recent...
Read MoreCustoms Record Production Requests Can Result In Multimillion Dollar Penalties - Part II
Introduction This is the second part of an article about Customs' increasing interest in administrative record-keeping penalty assessments. Some Customs officials believed that it was easier to make these types of cases than to prove underlying violations of the Customs laws. It's the old...
Read MoreCustoms Record Production Requests Can Result In Multimillion Dollar Penalties - Part I
Part II of this article will appear in the June issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel. Introduction This is a two-part article about Customs and Border Protection's (Customs) increased interest in record-keeping penalties, and its failed efforts to find its first major court case...
Read MoreChina Trade: Know Before You Go
Trade between the United States and China continues to be front page news, and the source of a great deal of uncertainty in the trade community. It is not uncommon to read newspapers articles about the trade imbalance between the two countries, the continued threat by Congress to impose duty...
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