EXPORT SESSION 3: EXPORT CONTROLS AND COMPLIANCE Guam State Trade and Expansion Program (STEP) Training Series DISCLAIMER: The Pacific Islands Small Business Development Center Network (PISBDCN) at the University of Guam – School of Business & Public Administration is partially funded by a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). All opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA. Requests for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. Language assistance services are available for limited English proficient individuals with at least two weeks advance notice. For arrangements, please contact Laurine Sablan, P.O. Box 5014, Mangilao, Guam 96923, Tel: (671)735-2590, or Email sbdc@pacificsbdc .com. Services are extended to the public on a non-discriminatory basis.
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EXPORT SESSION 3:EXPORT CONTROLS AND COMPLIANCEGuam State Trade and Expansion Program (STEP) Training Series
DISCLAIMER: The Pacific Islands Small Business Development Center Network (PISBDCN) at the University of Guam – School of Business & Public Administration is partially funded by acooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). All opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect theviews of the SBA. Requests for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. Language assistance services are availablefor limited English proficient individuals with at least two weeks advance notice. For arrangements, please contact Laurine Sablan, P.O. Box 5014, Mangilao, Guam 96923, Tel: (671)735-2590,or Email [email protected]. Services are extended to the public on a non-discriminatory basis.
• a building or other secured area in which imported dutiable
merchandise may be stored, manipulated, or undergo
manufacturing operations without payment of duty for up to 5
years
• Warehouse proprietor incurs a liability for the merchandise
under a warehouse bond
• Liability is cancelled when merchandise is exported, taken out
for supplies to a vessel or aircraft; destroyed under CBP
supervisions; or taken out for use or sale within the U.S. after
payment of duty
CUSTOMS BONDED WAREHOUSE
Advantages of using Bonded Warehouses
• Duty is not collected until the merchandise is withdrawn for consumption
• Importer controls use of money until the duty is paid upon withdrawal of the merchandise
• If no domestic buyer, importer can sell merchandise for export
• Check with CBP if your merch can be placed here
• Duties owed on articles that have been manipulated are determined at the time of withdrawal
GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION
• Gives individuals better control over their personal data
• “Personal data” is any information that relates to a person, such as names, email addresses, IP addresses, eye color, political affiliation, etc.
• Provides rules for collection and handling of data
• Organizations outside of the EU are also affected
• High penalty fees based on global revenues
• Just one complaint can trigger an investigation
GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION
• Online forms could inadvertently collect data on EU citizens
• Also applies to data collected on any Europeans living in the U.S.
• Data also includes any indirect data such as physical or physiological information
• Economic or social demographics that can be triggered back to any specific individual
• Most enforcement agencies are 100% self-funded through fines and fees
GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION
How to comply?
• Protect subject rights: Ask for consent to hold data, withdrawal of consent at any time and data erasure, grant full access to how data is processed
• Legal Data uses: fraud detection, law enforcement and watch lists, cyber and IP security, employment data, transact business, process payments
• Accountability and compliance: only process data for authorized purposes, safeguard from additional processing, erase all data when service agreement ends
• Protection of published works and original works of authorship
• Berne Convention for Protection of Literary and Artistic Works: provides creators such as authors, musicians, poets, painters the means to control how their works are used, by whom, and on what terms
• Universal Copyright Convention: copyright proprietors in literary, scientific and artistic works, including writings, musical, dramatic and cinematographic works, and paintings, engravings and sculpture
• Utility patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture
• Design patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture
• Plant patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces distinct and new variety of plant
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – PATENT
• Paris Convention: countries are not allowed to discriminate against each others’ companies
• Patent Cooperation Treaty: allows you to file one “international” application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, to designate member countries in which a patent is sought
• For inventions made in the U.S., U.S. law prohibits filing abroad without a foreign filing license from the USPTO unless 6 months have elapsed since a U.S. application was filed