Industry Insights

Advancing Your Success in San Antonio | See You at the NCBFAA in April More than 600 industry members will be convening in San Antonio from April 14-17, 2019 at the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA) Annual Conference. Will you be one of them? Our theme for the conference this year is “Advancing Your Success.” The conference promises to be an amazing event full of learning, collaboration and the opportunity to build lasting connections in our industry. Roanoke Trade will be playing an active role at the NCBFAA Annual Event. Monday will be a busy day […]

Roanoke Trade is thrilled to announce the winner of this year’s National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America scholarship award.   Ms. Irmak Sensoz is the proud recipient of a $5,000 scholarship for her essay titled “Impacts of the US-China Trade War.” Ms. Sensoz’s outstanding work met or exceeded all of the requirements to receive the award.   The award will be presented on Monday, April 15, 2019, by Karen Groff, President of Roanoke Insurance Group, Inc., at the 46th NCBFAA Annual Conference. Introducing Ms. Groff will be Anne-Marie Bush, the 2019  NCBFAA Annual Conference Chair   Our winner, […]

  Absent any implementation delay, starting on March 17, CBP will begin using its new version of the CBP Form 5106. The new version differs quite significantly from the current version, and many of the changes, while optional, involve collecting more details about the entity. For those that file the form by mail/email with CBP, the Revenue Division will not accept the old version after March 17. For customs brokers that file the information through ABI, there is a hard cutover with no overlap. To assist the trade with identifying the changes to the form – particularly the newly required […]

Join Roanoke at this years CONECT’s 23rd Annual Northeast Trade & Transportation Conference. CONECT is comprised of importers, exporters, customs brokers, freight forwarders, port authorities, NVOCCs, intermodal carriers, logistics providers, banks, law firms, cargo facilities, consultants and others active in international trade. We hope to see you there!

TRADE WARS: COMPLIANCE STRIKES BACK Join Amanda Barlow and Patrice Lafayette at this year’s ICPA Conference that takes flight on March 24th. Stop by booth #68 so we can say hello and address any questions you may have about ATA Carnet’s or Customs Bonds. May the Force be with You!

  In observance of the holiday, our offices will be closed on Monday, February 18th and reopen on the 19th resuming normal business hours. Happy President’s Day!