CBP has informally advised various trade associations that the proposed changes to the Informed Compliance Publication (ICP) on Bona Fide Sales & Sales for Exportation to the United States will be withdrawn. CBP has indicated that it was not seeking to change policy or the law affecting first sale through the proposed ICP revisions but was instead looking to provide clarity with regard to the documents which could be required during an audit of first sale transactions. Based upon the...

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A few months ago Trepp, LLC in on of their updates noted that Manhattan's Four Times Square loan was at risk of losing its second largest tenant. (The property had already lost Conde Nast to One World Trade Center.) On Friday, The Real Deal confirmed that law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has committed to relocate to Brookfield's new office project called Manhattan West in 2020. The firm currently occupies about 49% of the space at Four Times Square, also known as the Conde Nast Building. The...

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A recent Customs Headquarters decision approving a protest filed by our office calls into question the infallibility of Customs laboratory testing results. Ruling HQ H250948 involved a denial of a garment importer’s claim for duty-free treatment under the DR-CAFTA’s “short supply” provision.  Duty-free eligibility turned on whether the underlying fabric had been subjected to certain specific finishing processes (which the lab concluded were not performed). Customs agreed with our argument that the supposed lab testing actually involved subjective visual observations...

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Friday, August 22, 2014 | By Pepper Hamilton, LLP - A founding member of the EACCNY Following the July 31, 2014 decision of a New York federal judge in In re Warrant to Search a Certain E-mail Account Controlled and Maintained by Microsoft Corp., 1:13-mj-02814 (SDNY), U.S. companies should be aware that data they control now may be subject to the reach of a warrant issued pursuant to the Stored Communications Act (SCA), 18 U.S.C. §§ 2701 – 2712, even...

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