Free Trade Agreements, such as the ambitious Trans-Pacific Partnership recently signed in Auckland, N.Z., represent an attractive opportunity for U.S. importers. The same is true for the corresponding Foreign Trade Zones that have greatly proliferated in the last forty years - rising from eight in the U.S. in 1970 to more than 500 today.

The SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) application of SAP SE is now certified with U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) for Entry Summaries.

QuestaWeb Inc., a provider of Web-based software applications for global trade management, has opened two satellite offices, in St. Louis, Mo. and Mobile, Ala.

Amber Road, a provider of global trade management solutions, says its proprietary process for collecting, translating, interpreting and updating country-specific trade regulations has achieved ISO 9001:2008 recertification.

Trealth is the name of a new software platform that supports the process and financing of global trade in the cloud.

Jacobs Douwe Egberts, in the process of developing a global corporate compliance strategy, has adopted the Amber Road trade management solution to enable restricted-party screening.