http://www.gateway-group.com gateway-group.com Release RSS feed. Gateway Logistics Group is a Houston Freight Forwarder. Copyright 2005, gateway-group.com Tendenci Membership Management Software by Schipul - The Web Marketing Company en-us noemail@gateway-group.com Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:10:56 GMT Release http://www.gateway-group.com/en/rel/46/ Census’ new FTR tightens enforcement, increases penalties Consider an action plan for compliance The Census Bureau (Census) published its long-awaited final rule on the new Foreign Trade Regulations (FTR), which eliminates paper documentation and requires exporters to use the Automated Export System (AES) or AESDirect. To view the final rule in its entirety, click here. In addition to clarifying multiple FTR, the rule also significantly increases penalties with greater enforcement from the Department of Commerce (DOC) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). While the rule’s effective date is set at July 2, it will not be formally implemented until September 30. Census and the DHS resolved a three-year dispute to issue the final rule, regarding sharing confidential export data and whether or not to allow companies to file export documents up to 10 days after a shipment has left the country, rather than before departure. The rulemaking attempts to make export compliance... http://www.gateway-group.com/en/rel/46/ noemail@gateway-group.com Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:00:00 GMT