Legal

Thursday, July 05, 2018

   The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday said two freight forwarder executives of a New Orleans-based company were arrested in Miami on charges of conspiring to fix prices on forwarding services offered to shippers. 

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

   Five employees of a Russian freight forwarder were indicted by the U.S. government on Tuesday for their role in violating U.S. economic sanctions by shipping jet fuel to Syria.    The shipments allegedly were made to sanctioned Syrian entities without any attempt by the forwarder to obtain the proper State and Treasury department licenses.

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

   A California couple pleaded guilty in a federal court on Tuesday to their role in an illicit scheme to export night vision and thermal device components to Russia.    Specifically, Naum and Irina Morgovsky, of Hillsborough, Calif., violated the Arms Export Control Act for exporting without the proper State Department licenses.

Friday, June 01, 2018

   To what degree can state and local governments regulate shipping terminals?    That question is at the heart of two legal battles on the West Coast which are centered on proposed bulk marine terminals in Oakland, Calif., and Longview, Wash., on the Columbia River.

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

   Inchcape Shipping Services Holdings Ltd. has agreed to pay the U.S. government $20 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act when it overbilled the Navy for ship husbanding services overseas.     Three former Inchcape employees brought the illicit overbilling activity to the attention of U.S. authorities.

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

   Anyone who works in the transportation, shipping or logistics sectors knows how even the small details — sometimes especially the small details — can have a major impact on supply chains.    The thought of missing these kinds of details keep logistics and supply chain professionals up at night, and the seemingly minute details of one routine shipping document — the bill of lading — can be extremely significant. Recently, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on forum s...

Thursday, May 24, 2018

   Crowley Maritime Corp. has promoted Tim Bush to vice president and deputy general counsel.    In his new position, Bush, who will be based in Houston, will help support the company’s growth as a leading provider of solutions for the U.S. government and various public-sector agencies.    Bush will continue to serve as Crowley’s lead attorney on several large projects for the U.S government, including the Defense Freight Transportation Services contract for the U.S. Depart...

Friday, May 11, 2018

   The U.S. Justice Department said Japanese ocean carrier Nitta Kisen Kaisha was fined $1 million by a federal district court on Thursday for the cover-up of one of its ships deliberately discharging oily bilge last year into the waters off North Carolina.

Thursday, May 10, 2018

   U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein said the Justice Department will step up its efforts to penalize those companies that engage in bribery with foreign government officials to gain a competitive advantage or pad their financial returns with ill-gotten gains.    “Paying bribes to government officials is destructive because it impels leaders to advance their personal interests instead of the interests of their citizens,” Rosenstein told attendees at the American Conferenc...

Thursday, May 03, 2018

   Carriers often extend the defenses and protections they enjoy under the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (COGSA) to their agents and subcontractors with what’s called a “Himalaya clause.”    In a recent decision, a federal court ruled Hapag-Lloyd and Ports America were protected by the Himalaya clause in the bill of lading of Expeditors, an NVOCC, when they were sued by Global Oil Tools over an international container shipment gone bad.

Friday, April 20, 2018

   The U.S. Justice Department said Christopher M. Holbrook, a former Customs and Border Protection officer, on Thursday pleaded guilty in a federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to obstructing justice in a case involving the use of excessive force.    Holbrook now faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. A sentencing date has yet to be scheduled.

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

   Those of us in the trade world who thought policy would settle down to some sort of soothed equilibrium a little over a year into the Trump administration are realizing how wrong we were.    With understandably anxious clients - compounded by a rapid succession of tariffs unlike anything the U.S. has seen in recent years and an executive branch that finally got a slew of empty high-level trade positions filled through Senate confirmations in March - compliance professionals face a ...

Monday, April 02, 2018

   An expensive machine packed in 10 crates was damaged while being shipped from South Korea to a semiconductor manufacturer in Orlando, Fla.    The crates did not fly directly to Orlando, but to Miami, and then were trucked to Orlando. During that time, the robotic arm of the machine was severely damaged and had to be replaced.    Meanwhile, U.S. courts wrestled over whether the Montreal Convention’s liability provisions applied to the air cargo damaged while in a warehouse...

Monday, March 26, 2018

   A federal court in Pennsylvania last week charged Ross Roggio of Stroudsburg, Pa., and his firm Roggio Consulting Co., with conspiracy to illegally export firearm parts and tools to Iraq for manufacturing M4 rifles.    These shipments were made in violation of both the Arms Export Control Act and International Emergency Economic Powers Act, according to the Justice Department.    A Commerce Department license is required to export certain goods and services from the Unite...

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

   The U.S. Justice Department said Transport Logistics International (TLI), a Maryland-based company that provides transportation services for nuclear materials in the United States and overseas, has agreed to pay a $2 million criminal penalty to settle allegations of bribing a Russian official.    TLI specifically violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) from 2004 to 2014 when it paid more than $1.7 million to offshore bank accounts at the direction of Vadim Mikerin, a Russ...

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

   The U.S. Justice Department said Mt. Crawford, Va.-based Beam Bros. Trucking (BBT), and owners Gerald Beam and Garland Beam, have agreed to pay $1,025,000 to resolve allegations that they overcharged the U.S. Postal Service on contracts to transport mail.    The Postal Service contracts with trucking companies, including BBT, to transport mail throughout the United States. On some contracts, the Postal Service provides trucking contractors with credit cards, known as Voyager Cards,...

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

   The U.S. Justice Department said Sea World Management & Trading and Edmon Fajardo were convicted Monday of maintaining false and incomplete records related to oil and garbage discharges from the oil tanker, Sea Faith , that was operating off the Texas coast near Corpus Christi in early 2017.    Specifically, the company and Fajardo pleaded guilty to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships and to not accurately maintaining the Sea Faith ’s oil and garbage record books....

Monday, February 26, 2018

   The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals, 24 entities, and seven vessels for the illicit production, refining, brokering, sale, purchase or export of Libyan oil.    “Oil smuggling undermines Libya’s sovereignty, fuels the black market and contributes to further instability in the region while robbing the population of resources that are rightly theirs,” OFAC said in a statement on Monday.    The UN Security Coun...

Thursday, February 22, 2018

   The U.S. Justice Department said three men were indicted Monday for their role in conspiring to illegally export goods and technology from the United States to support Hizballah in Lebanon.    Hizballah is designated by the United States as a foreign terrorist group.    According to the Justice Department, the illegal exports were attempted from 2009 to 2013 by Usama Darwich Hamade, 53, Samir Ahmed Berro, 64, and Issam Darwich Hamade, 55, in violation of the International...

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

   The Justice Department on Tuesday said Christopher Victor Grupe was sentenced to a year, plus one day, to prison for intentionally causing damage to Canadian Pacific Railway’s computer system.    Grupe, 46, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz of the District of Minnesota. He was convicted of one count of intentional damage to a protected computer on Oct. 6, 2017, following a five-day jury trial in Minneapolis.    According to court records, from Septem...

Thursday, February 08, 2018

   Jianhua “Jeff” Li, a 43-year-old Chinese national living in the United States on a student visa, pleaded guilty in a New Jersey district court Friday to his participation in a scheme to smuggle counterfeit Apple iPhones and iPads from China into the United States, the Justice Department said.    From July 2009 through February 2014, Li and his company Dream Digitals conspired with Andreina Becerra, Roberto Volpe, Rosario LaMarca, and others to smuggle over 40,000 counterfeit electr...

Thursday, February 08, 2018

   German business associations say they are fed up with an increase of cargo thefts throughout Germany and have launched a joint initiative to fight back.    The 13 associations, led by the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA), estimate that as much as $1.6 billion in goods are now stolen during transit across Germany each year.    According to the associations’ analysis, physical cargo carried onboard about 26,000 trucks is stolen in Germany every year, averagin...

Thursday, February 01, 2018

   A Plano, Texas resident was sentenced by a U.S. district judge this week to 46 months in jail for his role in conspiring to smuggle and illegally export hardened integrated circuits to China and Russia.    In addition, the court sentenced Peter Zuccarelli, 62, to three years supervised release and a $50,000 fine.    The circuits, which were exported in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), were destined for Chinese and Russian space program...

Monday, January 29, 2018

   Those of us in the industry who had the distinct privilege of engaging longtime maritime reporter, Bob Mottley, in conversation at press gatherings or conferences over the past 40 years never forgot him.    His larger-than-life presence, irresistible charm and sense of humor eased both anxious and reserved executives during interviews and allowed them to discuss their businesses, as well as careers, in a most open and personable way. While these interviews resulted in fascinating a...

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

   The U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday that two individuals, Yi-Chi Shih and Kiet Ahn Mai, were arrested on Jan. 19 and subsequently charged with illegally obtaining technology and integrated circuits with military applications that were exported to a Chinese company without the required U.S. export license.    Sixty-two-year-old Shih is an electrical engineer who is a part-time Los Angeles resident and a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Taiwan, while Mai, 63, who resides...

Thursday, January 18, 2018

   A former co-president of a Maryland-based company specializing in nuclear materials transportation was indicted for his alleged role in bribing officials connected with Russia's State Atomic Energy Corp.    According to the U.S. Justice Department, Mark Lambert, 54, of Mount Airy, Md., was charged in an 11-count indictment with one count of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and to commit wire fraud, seven counts of violating the FCPA, two counts of wire...

Monday, December 18, 2017

   Losses of cargo due to theft are expected to increase during the 2017 holiday season compared to last year due to many factors, including the two upcoming three-day weekends resulting in cargo being left unattended for longer periods of time.    This is according to Massachusetts-based supply chain visibility company Sensitech, which operates the SensiGuard Supply Chain Intelligence Center (SCIC), a cargo theft monitoring service formerly known as FreightWatch.    Accordi...

Thursday, December 07, 2017

A protest started by the MUA and now continued by the community has hampered port operations for two weeks.    Operations at the Victoria International Container Terminal at the Port of Melbourne have been hampered by boycotts for two weeks, despite the Australian Supreme Court ruling the action illegal.    The terminal has been subjected to an estimated $100 million Australian (U.S. $75.2 million) in damages as a result of the picketing, said VICT CEO Ander Dommestrup. As a result, ...

Wednesday, December 06, 2017

   The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has upheld a labor union complaint against transportation and logistics company The Pasha Group and its Pasha Hawaii subsidiary for violations involving two new containerships being built at Keppel AmFELS, in Brownsville, Texas, the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots (MM&P) said in a statement.    The MM&P had alleged that the National Labor Relations Act and its collective bargaining agreement require Pasha ...

Monday, December 04, 2017

   The Port of Seattle has agreed to pay a total of $8 million to two former employees who said they were retaliated against for opposing lease concessions to businesses owned by friends and political supporters of a now-former port commissioner.    The settlement was agreed to Nov. 30, just as a judge was preparing to issue a verdict in the case.    Port employees Elaine Lincoln and Deanna Zachrisson were fired in mid-2015 after emails from four years earlier were dug up in...

Friday, December 01, 2017

   An Administrative Law Judge has issued a ruling in which he ordered New Jersey-based Intermodal Bridge Transport, a trucking contractor for retailer Target, to cease and desist from misclassifying its contract port truck drivers as independent contractors and recognize them as employees.    In a decision handed down Nov. 28, ALJ Dickie Montemayor said he agreed with the Teamsters that IBT's “misclassifying employees as independent contractors” is an “unfair labor practice” and a vi...

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

   The day before jury section was set to begin, a federal judge in San Francisco indefinitely delayed the start of the trade secrets trial between Waymo and Uber, citing the discovery of a letter detailing Uber’s alleged efforts to spy on and steal from competitors.    On Nov. 28, Judge William Alsup put the start of the trial on hold after he was notified by the United States attorney’s office of a letter that purportedly detailed a covert effort by Uber to not only gather intellig...

Monday, November 20, 2017

   A lawsuit filed last week in Marion County, Ind. accuses the Indiana Department of Revenue (INDOR) of collecting annual Unified Carrier Registration fees from hundreds of thousands of truckers across the U.S. without authorization under Indiana law, according to reports from multiple news sources.    Indiana handles 400,000 registrations and over $100 million a year in fees on behalf of 41 states under the federally-authorized Unified Carrier Registration Plan, which allows i...

Monday, November 20, 2017

   An investigation is ongoing in a case where a man was found dead onboard an MOL chemical tanker that was moored at a Phillips 66 facility in the San Francisco Bay Area earlier this month.    The man, whose name has not yet been released by authorities, was aboard the Argent Sunrise tanker, owned by Japan-based MOL Chemical Tankers, when his death was reported on the evening of Nov. 12, according to the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG).    The Richmond, Calif. Fire Department and C...

Wednesday, November 08, 2017

   A Decatur, Ga.-based freight shipping and trucking company has been ordered by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to cease all operations following a fatal freeway accident allegedly caused by one of the company’s co-owners.    Keep On Trucking, LLC was directed to immediately cease all interstate and intrastate operations last week after a federal investigation found the company to pose “an imminent hazard to public safety,” the FMCSA said. Keep On Trucking, w...

Wednesday, November 01, 2017

   Four longshore workers are suing the Pacific Maritime Association and SSA Terminals over what they and their attorney say is racial harassment, failure to prevent racial discrimination and threats and intimidation in the workplace at the Port of Oakland.    According to the lawsuit, which was filed Sept. 1 in Alameda County Superior Court by San Francisco-based attorney Angela Alioto, her African-American clients, longshoremen John Hughes, Rickie Cox, Keith Hamilton and Devin Thomp...

Friday, October 27, 2017

   In the wake of the replacements of its executive director and board chair, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) has adopted a comprehensive new code of ethics.    The code, which was approved Oct. 26, will provide “crisp, clear guidance” to its members on how to deal with potential conflicts between their official responsibilities in setting public policy for the bi-state agency and their private interests, according to the port authority.    Crafted by ...

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

   Two Los Angeles City Council members have put forward a motion that would effectively bar trucking companies that do not treat their drivers as employees from doing business at the Port of Los Angeles.    Councilmen Bob Blumenfield, who represents the San Fernando Valley area, which is home to at least a dozen trucking companies, and Joe Buscaino, whose district includes the port and surrounding area, introduced the motion on Oct. 13. The motion aims to direct members of city ...

Monday, October 16, 2017

   U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman on Oct. 10 issued an order denying class action status for a decade-old antitrust lawsuit in which a group of rail shippers is accusing the four major U.S.-based Class I railroads of a five-year price-fixing conspiracy.    In an order that was issued nearly 10 years after the case was transferred to the court, Judge Friedman said that the plaintiffs didn’t managed to establish the requirements for the case to be prosecuted as a class action l...

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

   A former employee of Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) has been convicted of causing intentional damage to the railroad’s computer system, according to a statement from the U.S. Justice Department.    Christopher Victor Grupe, 46, of Minneapolis was first charged on April 11 with one count of intentional damage to a protected computer, and on Oct. 6, following a five-day trial, was found guilty by a federal jury in Minneapolis. A sentencing date has not been set.    Grup...

Wednesday, October 04, 2017

The SEC has called upon Celadon to provide documents related to the subpoena.    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has initiated an investigation into Indianapolis-based trucking and logistics company Celadon Group.    The company has received a subpoena from the SEC and is in the process of producing documents pursuant to the subpoena, Celadon said in a statement earlier this week.    As a result, the company has announced separate equipment financing to af...

Tuesday, October 03, 2017

   The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has imposed a civil penalty of $230,000 against Northampton, Mass.-based Millitech for 18 violations of the Export Administration Regulations.    The violations occurred between Oct. 14, 2011 and July 24, 2014, during which Millitech exported electronic microwave enhancing technology without obtaining the required government licenses. The exports, which are controlled for national security and anti-terrorism purposes, ...

Monday, October 02, 2017

   New York-based luxury goods retailer Richemont North America has agreed to pay a $334,800 civil penalty to settle four violations of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations, according to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).    The violations involved shipments of jewelry to Shuen Wai Holding Ltd. in Hong Kong that occurred between Oct. 5, 2010 and April 21, 2011. Shuen Wai was added to OFAC’s List of Specially Designated Nationals and ...

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Hoegh Autoliners and the U.S. Department of Justice have reached a settlement in the antitrust case covering the period between 2001 and 2012.    Car carrier Höegh Autoliners has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in an antitrust investigation covering U.S. to Middle East imports, the ocean carrier announced Wednesday.    In September 2012, DOJ began investigations into Hoegh Autoliners and several other shipping companies regrading imports between 2001 an...

Monday, September 25, 2017

   Shin Yang Shipping Corp. Berhad, a Malaysia-based provider of shipbuilding and shipping services, revealed in a Sept. 18 Bursa Malaysia filing that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Shin Yang Shipping Sdn. Bhd. (the plaintiff), filed a claim against an Indonesian client, PT Gemilang Raya Maritime (the defendant), on Sept. 13 in the North Jakarta District Court at Central Jakarta for defaulting on vessel payments.    The plaintiff sold and delivered four vessels to the defendant on Oct. ...

Thursday, September 21, 2017

    Young Living Essential Oils, based in Lehi, Utah, pleaded guilty in a federal court Monday to charges that it violated U.S. regulations when it illegally handled shipments of rosewood and spikenard oils, according to a statement from the Justice Department.    Specifically, the company violated the Lacey Act and Endangered Species Act when it handled these products without proper authorizations.    Young Living was issued a fine of $500,000, in addition to $135,000 in re...

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

   The Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP), a wide-ranging joint initiative by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles has been successful in drastically reducing air pollutants over the past decades, but some critics say that the program had deep flaws that they hope will be corrected in the next version of CAAP, which the ports are currently formulating.    During a panel on the CAAP update at the 2017 IANA Intermodal Conference on Sept. 18, representatives from the Pacific Merchant Shippi...

Friday, September 15, 2017

   The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) this week imposed a $400,000 civil penalty against Barrington, N.J.-based Bright Lights USA for exports of unauthorized defense components and technical data in violation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).    The company, which has been in business with the Defense Department since 1992 and is headed by Daniel A. Farber, manufactures and distributes spare parts, such as rubber stoppers and sea...

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

The Port of Vancouver, Wash., is battling a lawsuit that alleges its 2013 closed executive sessions violated OPMA standards.    The Port of Vancouver, Wash., has moved for summary judgment in a lawsuit regarding closed executive sessions in 2013, the port announced on Aug 30.    Originally brought against the Pacific Northwest port by Columbia Riverkeeper, Sierra Club and the Northwest Environmental Defense Center, the lawsuit states the port violated Washington state’s Open Public M...

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

   The U.S. Transportation Department’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed a $54,000 civil penalty against Interscience of Saint-Nom-la-Breteche, France, for allegedly violating federal hazardous materials transport regulations.    The FAA alleges that on Dec. 21, 2016, Interscience offered six plastic bottles of flammable liquid disinfectant spray to American Airlines for air cargo transport from Blagnac, France, to Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Workers at the American cargo fa...

Friday, September 01, 2017

   The U.S. Justice Department said 53-year-old Chinese citizen, Fuyi “Frank” Sun, received a three-year prison sentence on Aug. 31 for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in relation to an illicit scheme to export high-grade carbon fiber to China without a license.    The carbon fiber is sought after for aerospace and military applications.     Sun pleaded guilty on April 21.    “For nearly five years, Fuyi Sun tried to skirt U.S...

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

   Statistics show an increase in cargo theft across Brazil in the second quarter of 2017, according to the latest in a series of reports by SensiGuard Security Services, a division of supply chain products and services company Sensitech.    Cargo theft in the region increased 14 percent in Q2 2017 compared to the same quarter last year, according to Sensitech data. However, it fell 13 percent compared to the first quarter of the year, according to the report, which was made public Au...

Friday, August 25, 2017

   The e-commerce company Custom Wristbands, and its affiliates Kulayful Silicone Bracelets, Kulayful.com, Speedywristbands.com, Promotionalbands.com, Wristbandcreation.com and 1inchbracelets.com, as well as its chief executive Christopher Angeles pleaded guilty to conspiring to fix prices for customized promotional products sold online to customers in the United States.    According to court records in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston, the conspir...

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

   The owner of a 590-foot bulk freighter has been fined by the U.S. Coast Guard for unauthorized ballast water discharge into the Willamette River in Portland earlier this month.    The Coast Guard said Aug. 22 that it has issued a $5,000 fine to Connecticut-based logistics company ANSAC after, during a routine port state control ballast water examination on the Panama-flagged 21,000 gross ton ANSAC Moon Bear , Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Portland marine inspectors discovered that...

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

   The remains of at least some of the 10 American sailors who were declared missing after their ship collided with a Liberian-flagged oil and chemical tanker have been found, according to the commander of the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet.    Adm. Scott Swift said that not all crewmembers who were unaccounted for after the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain  collided with the tanker Alnic MC have been discovered Aug. 22 by divers performing recovery operations, but that ...

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Over 900 incidences of cargo theft were reported in the second quarter of the year, a sharp uptick from the 586 in Q2 2016.    Cargo thefts in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) combined rose by hundreds of incidents in the second quarter of 2017 compared with the same quarter last year, according to a new report by supply chain management company Sensitech.    A total of 943 incidences of cargo theft were recorded in the second quarter by Sensitech's SensiGuard Supply Chain I...

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

   A cargo plane pilot under contract with the Defense Department pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Florida district court to charges of operating the aircraft from Osan Air Base in South Korea to Yakota Air Base in Japan while intoxicated, the U.S. Justice Department said.    According to the plea, Daniel R. Criss, 61, of Mims, Fla., was employed with a private company on behalf of the U.S. Transportation Command when he operated the Boeing 747 plane on July 14, 2015. He admitted to invest...

Wednesday, August 09, 2017

   The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in May upheld the decision of the American Steamship Owners Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association, Inc. (American Club) to deny coverage to TransAtlantic Lines LLC over costs associated with a suit resulting from lost cargo, ruling the association’s international deliberations were legally binding.    TransAtlantic had chartered a barge, the Atlantic Trader , from non-party McAllister Towing Co. Inc. in Februa...

Wednesday, August 09, 2017

   The Justice Department said Azim Makanojiva, president of e-commerce firm Zaappaaz, pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal violation of the Sherman Act for allegedly conspiring to fix prices for customized promotional products sold online to customers.     According to the charging documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston, Makanojiva and his companies, which include WB Promotions, Wrist-Band.com, and Customlanyard.net, attended m...

Monday, August 07, 2017

   The Justice Department on Friday filed permanent injunctions against three New York companies and their owners to stop importing and selling potentially dangerous toys until certain measures are taken by these firms to clean up the problem.     The injunctions apply to Everbright Trading Inc., its owner Yuan Xiang Gao and manager Rong Qing Xu, as well as New York companies Lily Popular Varieties & Gifts Inc., Great Great Corp., and their owners and operators Li Jing and Ch...