Importing Marketing Channel Audits

Why Should You Attend:

Importers must be aware that customs regulations used to help keep in accord international-free trade agreements (FTA) have increased over years between developed and developing markets. Importers must also beware of the record-keeping systems and processes that will be audited and assessed by the custom regulators for international logistics transactions. This review procedures and assessment will have an effect on management and administration of record-keeping compliance in your company. Reasons for auditing and assessing the record-keeping compliance documents include the determinations: classification and valuation of the goods for importing purposes within their dutiable status, whether the proper documentation have met the country of origin requirements, and whether the import documentation meet the foreign law requirements. If problems are found within the record-keeping compliance process, then the importer can be fined, and good can be held pending corrective actions by being detained, exported or confiscated.

This webinar will provide import compliance materials that examine U.S. Customs and Border Protection regulations for record-keeping that can be used in the international logistic arena. The session will also explore appropriate import documentation, procedures for record-keeping and the U.S. customs regulations for filing and recording import documentations.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• What are the importing security filing processes?
• What are the import distributor and sales agent agreement?
• How the formation of purchase agreements is used within the importation process?
• What is the purpose of the entry summary form?
• Why is the administrative summons form used in the importation process?
• Explaining how to complete the general certificate of compliance and certification of conformity documentation in the importing process.
• Define and describe the compliance with foreign laws. Why is it considered an important aspect of the importation process?

Who Will Benefit:

• Company Executive Officer (CEO)
• Entrepreneurs
• Freight Forwarders
• Customer Brokers
• Transportation Risk Management Officer
• Import Distributors

Rossano V Gerald
Academic Professor, Texas A and M University

Dr. Rossano V. Gerald is an academic professor and founder of RVG International Consulting Firm, LLC. He has over thirty years of business experience in strategic management, marketing analysis, and supply chain management. Dr. Gerald is a veteran of the United States Army. He has worked with small and medium-sized businesses to help improve their business logistic processes through verification of operational and supply chain programs. Further, he has developed management and marketing strategies that were used to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations in the global economy. He earned a Doctor of Business Administration in International Business and Advanced Professional Business Certification in Marketing from Argosy University/Sarasota; Master of Science Degree (J.S.M.) for International Tax and Finance Services in the risk compliance and management field from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

Dr. Gerald is a member of the Free Trade Alliance, San Antonio Transportation Association, Inc., San Antonio SCORE, TX, Supply Chain Council and Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning, and CATO Institute of Research & Analysis and Academy of Business Research. He is a certified supply chain manager, inventory planner and property forecaster, and certified consultant for business value analysis and methodology. He is also a certified export leader, certified master management consultant, certified CCA, certified marketing analyst and registered business analyst. He is a member of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and has published several scholarly papers including one on NAFTA -Transportation Challenges: Case Study US-Mexico for the Journal of International Business and Economics.

Topic Background:

When importers products or goods have reached its destination, it has to go through customs, and each nation has their rules and procedural processes that may be unique for that business environment. Therefore, it is imperative to fully understand the record-keeping compliance that is addressed in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) which is outlined in the Ports of Entry & U.S. Import Regulations. The import compliance audit and assessment process can be complicated and full of record-keeping requirements that might be known to the importer under the Recordkeeping Compliance Handbook. Many companies have relied on their intermediaries (channel distributors) to maintain and manage their record-keeping compliance information to avoid pitfalls when trying to make customs.

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