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Roanoke will take time to celebrate family and friends this Thanksgiving by closing our offices at 1:00pm on Wednesday, November 25th and reopening at 8:30am on Monday, November 30th. Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday!
Customs Bond Roundtable Webinar Thursday, December 3rd at 12:00pm CT Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? Soon many will be building snowmen, hanging stockings and competing to find out who has the best ugly sweater. Before the frenzy begins, we hope you will make plans to join us for a special holiday edition of our Customs Bond Roundtable webinar series. These webinars are designed to focus on the issues that matter most to you, our customers and partners. Because financial fallout from COVID-19 and recent trade wars are causing underwriters to examine your clients’ bonds more closely than ever. Your […]
Today and every day, we humbly thank our American service members and their families for their courage and sacrifice. On Veterans Day, we take a special moment to honor and remember those who have served and those who made the greatest sacrifice for our country.
eBond is the fastest customs bond filing system ever, and it’s about to be even faster and easier. The Road to eBond Customs bonds used to be issued on typewriters. Across the country entry writers for customs brokers would hammer out importer information onto green, pink, and yellow sheets of carbon paper, and these paper pages were delivered by messenger or mail to the CBP office at the local port. There the bonds waited for their Customs Control Number stamp and delivery back to the broker or agent. Then in the 2000’s, the bond filing process went digital. Processing […]
Ghostly Greetings from Your Friends at Roanoke! We hope you carve out some time for some ghoulishly good fun. Have a safe and Happy Halloween!
CREATING A PASSWORD This is the final blog post in our series highlighting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency efforts on the “Do Your Part – #BeCyberSmart” campaign for October, the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The cyber awareness topic for today is How to Create a CyberSmart Password. Today’s 8 tips on creating a password come courtesy of the National Cybersecurity Alliance and The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency. We are sharing this valuable information to the trade community in order to help raise industry awareness and hopefully prevent cyber incidents. Creating a strong […]