USCBP is making a call-out to small businesses, to beware of too-good-to-be-true “tariff workaround” schemes!
Some foreign suppliers may encourage you to route Chinese-made goods through countries with lower #tariff rates. This is illegal transshipment – and you, the #importer, are liable.
Consequences include:
• Seizure of your valuable inventory
• Criminal charges
• Business disruption
• Steep fines
• Loss of importing privileges
This bad advice often targets #entrepreneurs who don’t know how much risk they’re assuming. CBP is focused on protecting these individuals, their businesses, and fair competition for the U.S. economy.
If you’re not sure what qualifies as a Country of Origin change, get help before you ship ➡️ https://go.dhs.gov/wb6
Today I Iaunch my new book, ’When Elephants Fly – Leadership and Management of Customs, Trade and Borders in a Globalized World’.
There is an old saying in some parts of the world that change will come when elephants fly. Guess what, elephants are flying. Change is here. There will be more changes for international trade in the next five years than we have experienced in the last fifty. What does it mean for us as leaders?
In this book I share my own experience and learning from a leadership career covering forty years with executive positions in standard setting international institutions, government and private sector – a journey where I have met and served with some of the most successful leaders of our time.
I am grateful that some of these leaders from different sectors, public and private, politics, international institutions, sport and culture, are sharing with me & the reader their best leadership stories and their thoughts about leadership.
This book is different, a book for managers in customs, borders and trade. A practical guidebook to leadership not found among the management books at the library and in the airport stores. A multiyear project that travelled with me around the world, where I also share my thoughts about the future.
With foreword from Pravin Gordhan (deceased) and contributions from Jan Eliasson, Cecilia Malmström, Sven-Göran Eriksson (deceased), Karin Starrin, Freda Liu, Dr. Enrique Canon, Professor David Widdowson, Hubert Duchesneau, Carole Clermont & Professor Wieslaw Wes Czyzowicz.
”It is not where you came from, but where you are going that counts – nothing is impossible”
This book is written pro bono and any surplus goes to Save The Children, orphaned children in Ukraine.
It is available as printed version or e-book where books are found, like:
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But also in other online bookstores,
ISBN 978-91-89968-61-5
Photos by Malin Sanches-Bell & Peter Kroon
Bono has always been one of my heroes. I saw U2 play live in Paris before they were known & released their first record. They have been with me since then. I consider The Joshua Tree as the best album ever made.
Paul Hewson, or Bono, the name he has carried since he met his wife Ali & joined the band the same week of September 1976, has now released a film ’Stories of Surrender’. It is magnificant & received seven minute of standing ovations at the Cannes filmfestival a few weeks ago.
Now you can watch it on Apple. I urge you to do so. The insights to how a rock’n roll superstar is born. I loved it.
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