The Permanent Technical Committee of the World Customs Organization unanimously re-elected Ian Saunders, assistant commissioner of International Affairs at CBP, as chairperson of the PTC, the WCO said in a news release. Gordana Vidanovic of Serbia was re-elected as vice-chairperson.

Crowell & Moring has hired partners Nicole Simonian and Evan Yee-Fan Chuck, and counsel Jackson Pai, in the firm's Los Angeles office, and senior counsel Robert Clifton Burns is joining the Washington, D.C., office. The firm is also launching an office in Shanghai with seven trade, transactions and tax professionals. The lawyers were formerly with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.