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Environmentalists raise impassioned concerns that the Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] has no regard for its potential negative effect on the environment, but this could not be further from the truth. The proposed TPP legislation enforces existing Multilateral Environment Agreements [MEAs], elevates TPP Countries’ environmental commitments to US standards, and puts forward new and innovative conservation proposals. Gain better understanding of the TPP’s environmental provision

Q&A WITH PHIL TRAYLOR, CRCBFA Import Chair What brought you in to the International Trade Industry? The same thing as everyone else…a fluke! Like most, I didn’t even know the brokerage/forwarding industry existed. I had originally intended to be a Spanish teacher. I have a lot of educators in my family and was kind of blindly following that path. I was living in Corvallis and bartending at two places trying to save money to get my MAT and it was around the time that I rea

Five CRCBFA missionaries joined customs brokers and freight forwarders from up and down the US West Coast at the Pacific Coast Council Trade Mission to DC, March 22nd through 24th. This annual trade mission is packed with unparalleled engagement with federal agencies, which are charged with designing and implementing trade legislation with our elected congressmen and women. This year’s mission was especially energized due to the urgent national trade agenda compounded by unre