The United State Department of Justice has reached an agreement with Boeing allowing the company to pay $1.1 Billion to avoid prosecution for two passenger jet crashes that resulted in the death of over 300 individuals. Boeing will have to put $455 million toward strengthening...

By Jeffrey A. Newman Apple is facing a potential 25% tariff on its iphones unless it advances construction of its factory in the United States. Some analysts responded that the idea of Apple producing iphones in the US is not feasible as factories take years to build a factory....

In an unusual column in the New York Times, the paper's international trade reporter Ana Swanson reports that the "significant increase in tariffs in recent months appears to have prompted an increase trade and customs fraud." Ms Swanson is correct. Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan have recently reported instances in which products made in...

Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang says that U.S. export controls prohibiting the same of advanced semiconductor chips to China are a failure that have incenticized CHina to develop more quickly its own artificial intelligence technologies. Nvidia has lost market share to Chinese competitors because of the limitations. While attending...

Colombia’s government has applied to join a China-based development bank. The bank was set up a decade ago as a project of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa as a means to U.S.-dominated institutions like the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank. So far, the New...

Nvidia is going to open a research-and-development center in Shanghai, its latest effort to maintain a foothold in China while still abiding by the tightened US export controls for Nvidia's AI semiconductors. .  The new teams will supplement the over 4000 already working in China. The...

U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risks posed by Chinese-made devices that are used in the U.S. renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of the, according to Reuters. Inverters are built to allow remote access for updates and...

In May 2023, The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the largest-ever award, nearly $279 million, to a whistleblower whose information and assistance led to the successful enforcement of SEC and related actions. This is the highest award in the SEC’s whistleblower program’s history, more than doubling the $114 million whistleblower award...

According to the Wall street Journal, China’s state-owned agricultural conglomerate, Cofco, is building its biggest export terminal outside China at the port to manage shipments of corn, sugar and soybeans. Today's article refernces that China’s broader plan for South America’s agricultural products includes the present work in which China...

Jeffrey A. Newman Customs and tariff fraud relating to U.S. tariff laws and products imported to the United States generally involves transshipment by routing a shipment through a third country to disguise its origin. Once there the country of origin is changed from China to the new country, Mexico,...