The Suarez Firm helps clients take the risk out of international commerce. After a dramatic shift in U.S. trade policy, importers have felt the pain of extra tariffs and uncertainty in their international business. The Suarez Firm helps clients understand what to expect next and to adjust their business transactions to minimize costs and mitigate the risk of penalties or other enforcement actions by customs authorities.
Why Do Recent Developments in U.S. Trade Policy Matter to Korea? By Evelyn M. Suarez and Gillian Jaeger This post originally appeared on The Spectrum Group website. Over the past four decades South Korea has experienced incredible economic growth and global integration to become a high-tech industrialized economy. In…
This post originally appeared on the Africa Syndicate Blog on March 31, 2016.What’s Your Experience with the African Growth and Development Act (AGOA)? The African Growth and Opportunity, originally enacted in 2000, was renewed in the summer of 2015 for an additional ten years until September 30,…
SMEs and State Export Promotion Efforts to Benefit from Bill Signed by Obama This article originally appeared in Global Trade on March 18, 2016. On February 24, 2016, President Obama signed the “Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015.” This is the first major…
As we welcome the New Year, it is time for the African continent to take stock of developments in international trade policy that occurred in 2015. The year ended with the 10th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which took place in Nairobi, Kenya from…
Measure Becomes Effective July 1, 2016 The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted an important new requirement affecting shippers. The IMO amended the Safety of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS) to require shippers to verify weights of packed containers, regardless of who packed the container.
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