The Canada Border Services Agency will go forward with an increase to Administrative Monetary Penalties for trade compliance violations, CBSA said in a March 1 message. "Effective April 1, 2019, the CBSA will increase a number of AMPs related to commercial trade," CBSA said. "Increases will bring penalty levels in line with other non-trade commercial penalties. These increases affect non-compliant importers only."
A House bill that would require the U.S. government to ban all U.S. exports to any company that violates export controls or sanctions has appeal on both the right and left, said Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., in a recent interview. The bill, H.R. 602, which so far only has Reps. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., and Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., as co-sponsors, is a companion bill to a Senate effort led by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ariz.