Seminars
Training for your company or trade association.
The firm has taught these subjects to brokers, forwarders, importers and association members for years. Any of them can be tailored to your company, and new topics on customs and trade law can be developed on request. Seminars are given at your offices, at a venue of your choosing, or by video conference.
C-TPAT registration and training
- What the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism is for
- Why join, and what CBP expects of members
- The process and rules for participation, step by step
- Hands-on practice with a sample application and attachments
Professional handling of Customs penalties
- How to respond to CBP demands for penalties and liquidated damages
- The common grounds for penalty and seizure actions
- Actual penalty cases and how they were handled
- How different ports interpret inspection, detention, seizure and enforcement rules
- The administrative and judicial paths of petition and appeal
Managing legal risk in shipping and logistics
- Your financial exposure as a freight forwarder, NVOCC or air consolidator
- Co-loading
- The wording on bills of lading, house air waybills, warehouse receipts and other negotiable documents
- Why COGSA and the Warsaw and Montreal Conventions matter
- Telling customers about your legal liability
- Limiting errors-and-omissions claims
Federal Maritime Commission: licensing, enforcement and defense
- The experience and steps required for an OTI license
- What the Commission is looking at now
- The different rights and obligations of freight forwarders and NVOCCs
- Recent penalties and amounts
- The most common OTI violations and how to avoid them
Free trade agreements: securing preferential treatment
- Basic importing and exporting requirements under FTAs
- Whether your products meet the rules of origin
- Keeping preferential treatment through audits
Business formation and valuation
- Choosing an entity
- Valuation methods for closely held logistics businesses
- Preparing a company for sale
Handling a client's bankruptcy
- What a forwarder or broker should do when a customer files
- Preference exposure and how to reduce it
- Filing and protecting a claim
Arrange a seminar
Tell us the audience, the format and the dates. We will propose an agenda and a flat fee.