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September 2019 - Info Expeditor

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CONCERNS ABOUT OURINDUSTRY LEADS TO ASPECAIL WORKSHOP INOAKLAND, OCTOBER 3rdCBFANC Elections -- YourChance to be a Leader ofCBFANCHoward Terminal UpdateMARITIME PORT VSOAKLAND As REAL ESTATEDEVELOPMENT, CITYCOUNCIL COMMITTEMEETING OCT 8thCES UpdateCalifornia's War onTruckingSec 301 reference toolThe Latest WaterfrontDevelopment HustleCBFANC Hdliday PartyDecember 12, 2019--SAVETHE DATECBFANC Brokers ExamPrep Course is underway!Congresswoman JackieSpeier Meets CBFANCDelegation in D.C.CBFANC Seminar: BondSuffiency vs Section 301Tariff Increases

CONCERNS ABOUT OUR INDUSTRY LEADS TO ASPECAIL WORKSHOP IN OAKLAND, OCTOBER3rdPeter Friedmann

AgTC/Shipper Workshop – OaklandThursday, October 3, 2019

10 AM -- Registration, Coffee and Danish, Workshop:

10:30 AM to 2:30 PM

Location: Oakland Airport, Terminal 1, Muir WoodsConference Room

1 Airport Dr. Oakland, CA 94621

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WESCCON 2019 -CBFANC Social Media

CBFANC Seminar: BondSuffiency vs Section 301Tariff Increases

CBFANCEducationalSeminar

Section 301TariffIncreasesIs Your CustomsBond AmountSufficient?

ImportLiabilitiesWhat YOU Needto Know!

Presented byRoanoke TradeServices Inc.

Click here to Register

Ag Shipper Workshops -- informal, round table discussion ofthe most pressing challenges facing exporters & importers.

Discussion continues over lunch, which will be servedmid-day.

AgTC Member Fee: $45 Non-Member Fee: $145

We keep topics timely, and talk about anytransportation concern you have! Here are a few:

Howard Marine Terminal- Get the details oncontroversial proposal to convert into the Athletics' newballpark + housing - Why is maritime so worried? Willagriculture and other cargo will be impacted?

Low sulfur fuel surcharges- already imposed by theocean carriers now, ahead of the January 1, 2020mandate. What then?

VGM - carriers forcing exporters to submit moreinformation and charging us for it ---- despite US CoastGuard rulings

Free time Penalties - Will FMC stop carriers fromimposing costly demurrage/detention penalties onexporters, importers, truckers?

California's War against Independent Contractingin Trucking - Learn about the new legislation

Documentation penalties - so costly for exporters,thousands of dollars per shipment. Census and CBPofficials now promise to help.

YOUR concerns + questions –encouraged throughout

the Workshop. Discussion, not speeches!

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PatriceLafayette,Assistant VP,Client ServicesJon Diverio,Marine ManagerTerryCummings, VP,SalesSeminar DateThursday,November 7th,2019

WESCCON 2019 -

Editor's note:WESCCON 2019 will commencenext week, October 10th, inRancho Mirage, CA. Our reportson this conference will be innext month's edition ofInfoExpeditor. As you can seebelow, this looks to be the mostimportant WESCCON in manyyears.

WESCCON 2019October 10-13 | Rancho Las

Palmas Rancho Mirage, CA

Never have customs brokers and

freight forwarders been underfire like today.

Questions? Call 202 783 3333 or info@agtrans.org

CBFANC Elections -- Your Chance to be a Leaderof CBFANCJack Hubbard, Chairman, CBFANC Board of Directors

CBFANC Board of Directors2020 Elections coming up soon!!!

We are seeking member participation on the CBFANC Board ofDirectors. If you are a professional member of CBFANC andare interested in serving on the board of directors please askanother member to nominate you for the upcoming elections. Nominations can be sent to info@CBFANC.org.If you know a fellow CBFANC professional member who youthink would be a great addition to the board of directors,contact that person and see if they would like you to submit anomination in their favor to info@CBFANC.org. Board terms are for three years. The board meets every othermonth for a dinner meeting, and on other months it meets viaconference call. Now is your chance to help shape the future of ourassociation. The election results will be announced at our annualmeeting/holiday gathering to be held on December 12, 2019.

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Never has WESCCON beenmore timely and essential.

CBP - Import, export and

moreAnother Shutdown?

Forwarder Drayage LiabilityCalifornia's War on

Independent TruckersACE MigrationNAFTA -USMCA

China-US Tariff WarsSouthern Border - the Wall

and CommerceeCommerce Expanding

Deminimus - Section 321FMC regulationPort congestion

demurrage/detention

CBFANC Social Media

Please connect with us!

Twitter - @cbfanc

LinkedIn - CBFANC

Facebook - CBFANC

Events Around the Bay

P.A.E.I - ProfessionalAssociation of Exportersand Importerswww.paei.org.

OWIT NC - Organization ofWomen in InternationalTrade Check website forupdatesMonterey BayInternational TradeAssociation (MBITA) -

Howard Terminal Updateby: Evey Hwang

Evey Hwang, CBFANC Ocean Coimmittee Howard Terminal Update: You’re invited. Please attendthe AgTC Workshop at Oakland Intl Airport, Terminal 1, MuirWoods Conference Room, 1 Airport Drive, Oakland, CA94621. Come learn how a confident Dave Kavel, President ofOakland As, has been busy promoting his dream of waterfrontballpark at Howard Terminal. Whether lobbying Sacramento,D.C. or Oakland, Mr. Kavel has promoted the As stadium asthe best thing for As fans and the City of Oakland. Come tomeet and direct your concerns to senior Oakland Port staff onthe negative impact of allowing Howard Terminal to serve aswaterfront ballpark and thereby jeopardize the Port of

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Monterey BayInternational TradeAssociationCheck Website for updatesNorcal W.T.C. - TheNorthern CaliforniaWorldTrade CenterCheck Website for updatesPTA. - PacificTransportation AssociationCheck Website for updates

Oakland’s future viability for maritime use. Here’s the fight. The As got a step closer on on September18, 2019 when the California Assembly passed AB1191. Voteswere 71-1. In summary, the Bonta Bill (author, AssemblymanRob Bonta) allows for the State Lands Commission to directthe SF Bay Conservation and Development Commission(BCDC) to evaluate the Howard Terminal’s 54 acres for multi-use development.http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1191 What’s the big deal? What Mr. Kavel leaves out in hisappeals to As fans is the fact that “real” big deal is the realestate development. A stadium for ballgames and musicvenues is not enough for the As organization. The real deal ofthe multi-use venues to include multiplex movie theater, retailand restaurant space, and…luxury condominiums. All of thisis in the drawings of the proposed development, but it is nevermentioned as what the As really want in exchange for staying“rooted in Oakland”.

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MARITIME PORT VS OAKLAND As REAL ESTATEDEVELOPMENT, CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEMEETING OCT 8thEast Oakland Stadium Alliance

Tuesday, Oct. 8: City Council Committee Hearing onDraft Downtown Precise Plan1:30 p.m. at Oakland City HallThe Oakland City Council Committee on EconomicDevelopment is holding a hearing on the city’s draftdowntown plan. The plan calls for decimating the

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industrial buffer between downtown and the waterfront,and it in many ways treats a Howard Terminalballpark/mixed-use development as a foregoneconclusion. We need coalition members to speak out inlarge numbers at this meeting. This is the most importantCity Council hearing we’ve had in a while.

CES UpdateEvey Hwang

Pictured above: Evey Hwang and Port Director RichardDiNucci

CES Update: On September 12, 2019, Evey Hwang, JackHubbard and Chris Ramos of the CBFANC Customs and OceanCommittee met with Port Director Richard DiNucci at theSF Custom House. A leading topic of discussion was to relayour membership’s issues about CES performance and costs. Subsequently, on September 17, 2019, CBP joined CBFANC atPCC Logistics for a CES progress update. PCC Logisticsacknowledged that there have been problems due to growingpains with new staff and PCC Logistics promised to work ontheir response times. They are continuing work on theirwebsite to make it more readily accessible and easier to use.

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California's War on TruckingEvey Hwang and Jack Hubbard

New California laws and regulations threatenindependent, owner/operated truckers.

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Truckers Working Group update: On September 11, 2019,the California State Senate passed AB5. Votes were 26 to 11and the bill was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsomon September 18, 2019. With the passage of AB5,California’s war on Uber and Lift has expanded to includesweeping impacts on California businesses such asindependent owner-operators in the trucking industry. AB5 willend the practice of truckers acting as independent contractors,which could put them out of business in California. Alsoenacted is Senate Bill 210, which creates a new emissioninspection program for trucks even though California airregulators already mandated in 2008 that the truckingindustry convert to cleaner engines. Further, Senate Bill 44,also just signed by the governor, directs the California AirResources Board (CARB) to update its 2016 “mobile sourcestrategy” to include “a comprehensive strategy for thedeployment of medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicles.” BothSB 210 and SB 44 could require trucking companies to yetagain buy new equipment in order to stay compliant with thelaw. The cost of trucking is built into the price of everythingthat is transported in California (everything we buy arrives bytrucks!). The loss of the independent contractor, and theintroduction of repressive new laws and regulations will forceCalifornia businesses to raise prices. How will owner/operatortruckers be able to survive, and how will California ports beable to stay competitive?

Sec 301 reference toolAre you unsure of the latest HTS that are subject or will tosubject to Sec 301 additional duties? The office of the U.S.Trade Representative makes this information available at thefollowing web site: http://ustr.gov/issue-areas/enforcement/section-301-investigations/tariff-actions

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The Latest Waterfront Development HustleJohn McLaurin, President of the Pacific Merchant Shipping As

John McLaurin, president of the Pacific MaritimeShipping AssociationEditor's note: We are re-running this article, which originallyappeared in the August edition of InfoExpeditor. We hopethat this will allow as many people as possilbe to have thechance to read this insightful opinion piece from Mr. McLaurin.

The battle continues between Port of Oakland maritimeinterests vs Oakland As real estate developers. Concerns arerising within the Oakland City Council regarding the potentialimpact of the proposed Oakland As stadium/real estatedevelopment. John McLaurin, president of the PacificMerchant Shipping Association (PMSA), recently published anOp Ed piece on this subject, and we have his permission toshare this with you. To read Mr. McLaurin's article, please click here:

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https://www.maritimeprofessional.com/news/latest-waterfront-development-hustle-349890

CBFANC Hdliday Party December 12, 2019--SAVETHE DATE

SAVE THE DATE!

The annual CBFANC Holiday party will be held on December12, 2019, at the SFO Hilton in Burlingame, CA. Registrationand more information to follow.

CBFANC Brokers Exam Prep Course is underway!by: Chris Kammer

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Pictured above: Keith Hwang, CHB, JD is the instructor for the October 2019Customs Broker License Examina�on (CBLE) prep course which began on July9th.

Classes are in session and poten�al licensedcustom house brokers are studying hard in orderto pass the October brokers exam. CBFANC ispleased to offer to our member thisopportunity to expand their knowledge, enhancetheir careers, and experience bright futures in theyears to come. We wish the best to all of our students and wewant to remind our readers that informa�onregarding the next course for the April 2020 examwill be published as soon as the details arefinalized.

Here are a few words from our instructor, KeithHwang:With degrees from Yale (BA), Columbia (JD) andStanford (MA), Keith's academic creden�als areimpressive, but according to him, the mostrelevant qualifica�on he has is a passion forteaching. "I view teaching as an opportunity toexplore a par�cular topic with others in search of

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an understanding or insight from which we can allbenefit," he says. "It's just as much facilita�on ofa learning process as it is straight instruc�on." Chris Kammer

Congresswoman Jackie Speier Meets CBFANCDelegation in D.C.

Editor's note: You might wonder why you are seeingthis picture again!! Well, it's because I like it! It showssome of the best and brightest in our industry as theypay a call on one of the most respected members ofCongress, Rep. Jackie Speier. This is great! Maybe I'lljust include it in every edition for the rest of this year. Cheers!Representative Jackie Speier met with the CBFANC delegationon April 2nd. We wish to convey our thanks to RepresentativeSpeier for her interest in the issues facing our industry.Pictured above: Peter Friedmann aka Our Man in DC, PeterGong, Chris Ramos, Representative Speier, Sun Wook Lee,

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Raymond Hong, Evey Hwang, Brenda Custer-Espeleta, andFelicia Addison.

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