Section 301, USMCA, International Trade in a Post Pandemic World
A webinar with a Government Insider, James Holbein, and Adrienne Braumiller, Founder, Braumiller Law Group
Tuesday, May 12th, 11 AM- Noon EST
At this time, many companies are engaged in a complex overhaul of their logistics and production concepts. The US-China trade conflict, will still be in place after this pandemic, and will encourage companies to both look closer to home for their production, as well as to evaluate the benefit of having alternative sources. Countries like Canada, Mexico or Latin America will seem more attractive after this experience to U.S. companies. In Europe, sourcing within the EU makes much more sense once the factors of reliability and local access are properly factored into cost comparisons.
The global trade landscape has been forever changed
This webinar will cover:
- Section 301 and a new opportunity for various exclusions
- USMCA, and how the pandemic has changed the landscape for inclusion, and point of origin
- Learn how to obtain government assistance to continue doing business while trade ramps up after the pandemic
- Take advantage of any relief from Section 301 China tariffs to help reduce import costs
- Leverage duty free trade with Canada and Mexico to improve your competitiveness in this high tariff trade environment
- Approaches to long term changes to your supply chain to add security and resiliency in the face of the uncertain policy environment
- Guidance on regulatory compliance to ensure your imports and exports move freely as business ramps up again to pre-pandemic levels
Your presenters, Adrienne Braumiller, Founder & James Holbein, Of Counsel, Braumiller Law Group
Jim Holbein has decades of experience in trade negotiating, trade policy development, tariff nomenclature and administration, customs enforcement, international trade dispute settlement, and import compliance. In his most recent federal position he managed the development of tariff nomenclature for all Section 301 tariffs and exclusions, Miscellaneous Tariff Bills, for non-legal statistical breakouts to help firms isolate trade volumes for specific products, and supervised U.S. representation to the World Customs Organization making changes to the Harmonized System.
Jim is a former Federal Executive with more than 30 years of government experience, who most recently was responsible for supervising a professional staff maintaining the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. at the International Trade Commission (ITC). He ran the NAFTA trade dispute settlement process while at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He was a diplomat and trade negotiator for the U.S. Department of State. He is the author of more than 25 books, articles and conference papers dealing with international trade and dispute settlement.
This webinar is approved for
1 CCS/CES/MES credit.
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