Compliance, New Trade Agreements, Business Operations 16 Jan 2025 business regulation, postal service, logistics, shipping, contracts

📦USPS Priority Mail & Ground Advantage Contract Notice Impact

The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.

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Regulatory Compliance, Shipping Services 16 Jan 2025 business regulation, postal service, logistics, shipping, contract agreements

📦Notice of USPS Shipping Service Changes for Business Owners

The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.

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Regulatory Change, Business Implications 16 Jan 2025 business regulation, postal service, logistics, negotiated service agreements, shipping, usps

📦USPS Notice of New Priority Mail Express Service Agreement

The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.

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Regulatory Compliance, Business Operations 16 Jan 2025 business regulation, postal service, usps, shipping contracts, competitive products

📦USPS Notice on Changes to Priority Mail Express and Ground Advantage

The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.

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Regulatory Compliance, Economic Impact 15 Jan 2025 business regulation, postal service, logistics, shipping contracts, priority mail

📦USPS Announces Product Change for Priority Mail and Ground Advantage

The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.

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Regulatory Compliance, Trade Policy 15 Jan 2025 business regulation, trade compliance, customs, dhs, fletf, forced labor, uyghur

⚖️Updated Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List Effects

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as the Chair of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), announces the publication and availability of the updated Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, a consolidated register of the four lists required to be developed and maintained pursuant to the UFLPA, on the DHS UFLPA website. The updated UFLPA Entity List is also published as an appendix to this notice. This update adds three entities to the section 2(d)(2)(B)(ii) list of the UFLPA and thirty-five entities to the section 2(d)(2)(B)(v) list of the UFLPA. This update adds one entity to both the 2(d)(2)(B)(ii) list and section 2(d)(2)(B)(v) of the UFLPA. This update also includes a technical correction to the name of an entity listed in section 2(d)(2)(B)(ii) of the UFLPA. Details related to the process for revising the UFLPA Entity List are included in this Federal Register notice.

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Regulatory Compliance, Environmental Impact 15 Jan 2025 compliance, endangered species, business regulation, marine mammals, permits, noaa

🐬Marine Mammals and Endangered Species Permit Issuance Notice

Notice is hereby given that permits, permit amendments, and permit modifications have been issued to the following entities under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA), as applicable.

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Compliance, Financial 14 Jan 2025 compliance, business regulation, uspto, fiscal year 2025, patent fees

📜USPTO Patent Fees Adjustments Effective January 2025

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is correcting several minor typographical and other nonsubstantive inadvertent errors in the preamble and amendatory instructions to a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on November 20, 2024. That final rule set or adjusted patent fees as authorized by the Leahy- Smith America Invents Act (AIA), as amended by the Study of Underrepresented Classes Chasing Engineering and Science Success Act of 2018 (SUCCESS Act). These corrections do not result in any substantive changes to the final rule.

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Compliance, Financial 14 Jan 2025 compliance, business regulation, motor carriers, administrative practice and procedure, civil monetary penalties, transportation industry, surface transportation, freight forwarders, brokers, inflation

📈2025 Civil Monetary Penalty Adjustments by the Surface Transportation Board

The Surface Transportation Board (Board) is issuing a final rule to implement the annual inflationary adjustment to its civil monetary penalties, pursuant to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015.

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Regulatory Compliance, Financial Impact 13 Jan 2025 compliance, business regulation, federal reserve, administrative practice and procedure, inflation adjustment, penalties, claims, civil money penalties, lawyers, equal access to justice, crime

💼Federal Reserve Updates Civil Money Penalties for Inflation in 2025

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the "Board") is issuing a final rule amending its rules of practice and procedure to adjust the amount of each civil money penalty ("CMP") provided by law within its jurisdiction to account for inflation as required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015.

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