USA Import Compliance Program and Written Procedures

Why Should You Attend:

President Trump has signed numerous Executive Orders and taken other actions that significantly address trade. One of those orders addresses increased enforcement of U.S. trade and customs laws. Learn how these could affect your company.

Learn what is new and required by U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) when they conduct a focused assessment (import audit) in your company. This webinar will assist you in identifying potential risk factors in the area of import compliance that could subject you to severe penalties and delays in clearing goods through CBP. It will also provide recommendations for some best practices that may resolve non-compliant import procedures and documentation or improve existing procedures.

These best practices can increase your chances of receiving acceptable compliance rates under the focused assessment program. It may also reduce the time that auditors will need to spend in your company. Learn how to take "reasonable care" and tips for creating "Import Compliance Procedures".

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Customs Modernization Act
• Reasonable Care and Informed Compliance
• Priority Trade Issues for U.S. Customs Border Protection
• Role of Customs Auditors, Import Specialists, Investigators
• Focused Assessment Requirements
• Import Process into US
• Importer Self-Assessment Program (ISA)
• Recordkeeping Requirement
• Import Standard Operating Procedures (Examples)
• Internal Controls
• Penalties
• Best Practices
• Resources

Who Will Benefit:

Importers in the United States, exporters/manufacturers around the world that ship commercial goods to the United States. Target personnel include:

• Importers
• Import Compliance
• Operations
• Purchasing
• Accounting
• Shipping/Receiving
• Sales/Marketing
• Production
• Contracts
• Freight
• Forwarders/Customhouse Brokers
• Import/Export Consultants
• In-house Attorneys

Jan Seal
Management Consultant, Individual Consultant

Jan Seal is a Management Consultant on International Trade and a Licensed Customhouse Broker with over 40 years of experience in imports and exports. Ms. Seal is a frequent speaker/instructor at nationwide seminars and webinars for international companies located around the world and international trade organizations. She is also a consultant for medium to multi-national companies on trade compliance. She has taught courses for Import Specialist at the U.S. National Customs Academy.

She is the author of six text books on various international trade topics which are available on Amazon.com.

She received her BA Degree from California State University at Fullerton with a year of post-graduate work in Education at the University of California, Riverside. She received her MBA at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and is a member of Delta Mu Delta National Honor Society in Business Administration.

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