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FDA Declares 54% of Vapes Illegal: What Importers Must Know Now According to the FDA, 54% of vape products currently sold in the United States are unauthorized and illegally distributed. On September 30, 2025, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary issued a public notice titled Encouraging Retailers to Stop Selling Illegal Vapes, announcing that the agency
Though exporting products, services and technologies from the United States is relatively easy, especially as compared with many other countries, our clients are always peppering our international trade lawyers with export questions. In this post, I attempt to answer the seminal question related to exporting from the United States: What are the basics to ensure
Years ago, in Importing Goods From China: The Risks Are Rising, we wrote how companies can recognize impending antidumping (AD) or countervailing duty (CVD) petitions. In this post I address what you as an importer, exporter or foreign producer should do if you see an AD/CVD storm looming. The first thing you should do is determine whether
1. We're The U.S. Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) Program and We're Here to Help In this time of fragmented production strategies and far-flung supply chains, importing can be fraught with uncertainty, inefficiency, and risk. Add to this the disruptive effects of an exponential increase in trade volume, a multi-year pandemic, an overheated enforcement environment,
Harris Sliwoski Secures Revocation of CBP Forced Labor Order In 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revoked a Withhold Release Order (WRO) issued against one of our clients after CBP received an allegation falsely claiming the company was using forced labor. Fred Rocafort, working with Brazilian attorney Rodrigo Guedes Nunes, spent close to a
