I am a Trade Compliance Manager in a mid-size company with a bachelor’s degree and my broker’s license. If I were to take continuing education, either general courses or towards a master’s degree, what would be the best option in order to help make me a better trade compliance professional and help advance my career?
As Corporate Compliance Manager I have been asked to develop certification programs for the export compliance specialists located at our worldwide business units; something akin to the Six Sigma Black Belt, Green Belt, and Yellow Belt certification programs. Has anyone developed such a program or know of resources that provide levels of training for export […]
Am running into HTSUS classification compliance issues. Others (in house, not our brokers, although they assist where possible) are responsible for classification, but reviews of complied parts lists show the same HTSUS number, raising suspicions. Does anyone have recommendations on a good stand-alone class on HTSUS Classification to take, either on-line or in person that […]
I joined ICPA in 2007 and attended my first ICPA annual conference in Miami and found it a richly rewarding experience. However, I first had to persuade my boss that just because it was held somewhere nice and warm ~ we are located in northeast Ohio ~ I would be spending most of my time […]
Does anyone have a flowchart or perhaps series of questions (y/n) they use in training personnel on how to determine country of origin of an item? I would perfer not NAFTA or FTA related but I would love anything.
I am trying to put together a presentation to upper management to try to convince them that we need to invest in actually putting together a Compliance Department for our company. We have offices in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Canada, but no set Compliance Department!! I am only one person and I cannot […]
In addition to import and export compliance, my group handles Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) activities. I have been unsuccessful in finding training seminars that address MSDS topics. Does anyone have suggestions for MSDS training? Seminars, Conferences, Online resources, etc.
We are in the process of documenting compliance areas in which we either know or suspect that we have issues or just where there are improvements that need to be made. I know some people are already cringing but the issues have to be documented not only so that they can be vetted and a […]
We are an exporter of electronic parts and currently filing in AESDirect using company employees on our shipments going to our plants in Mexico. We are interested in using only temporary workers to file our exports in AESDirect. Do any members know, if we can use temporary workers to file or they need to be […]
Question: Does anyone know where I could find the following? A few years ago I went to a DOT training for HazMat and the like. The Coast Guard did a presentation for ocean freight and had a short video clip in their presentation that showed an example of what can happen on the water. The […]
I am looking for information and learning/training material for an exporter. Material exported would be a mix of EAR and ITAR products. It has been years ( about 10 ) since I looked much at the export arena, so I need to re-learn this from scratch. I know what an SED is and denied party […]
I am wondering if anyone in the membership has bought on-line trade compliance training software in the last 12 months? If so, how many employees use it and how much did it cost. The training we are searching for is mostly geared towards export controls.
