The Trade Compliance Coach, LLC

You hire Customs brokers, freight forwarders, attorneys and accountants.  You pay them a mint every year for their services.  But they can't read minds.

If your team doesn't know when to ask these experts for guidance, they can't help you protect your business from potentially fatal audits, lawsuits, and regulatory penalties.

Our Re-Shoring Workshop doesn't attempt to turn your staff into regulatory experts in a single day.... but it will help your team recognize red flags that they would otherwise miss, so they will know WHEN they should be asking your experts for advice.

The biggest multinational corporations employ corporate trade compliance departments to present internal training programs, so that your engineering, marketing, New Product Introduction, and purchasing departments know what they need to know to keep your business in compliance.

Smaller companies have all the same risks, the same needs, but can't afford such an internal trade compliance training team.

The Re-Shoring Workshop hits the highlights, introducing your teams to the rules they need to know, so that your company will have some of the protection that the big conglomerates enjoy.

Our one-day Re-Shoring Workshop has four parts:

1. An introduction to all the key import/export basics - Customs value, Origin determination and marking, classification, tariff assessment, etc.
2. An understanding of the risks each department commonly runs in the day-to-day dealings with vendors and customers.
3. Real examples of the million-dollar-plus dangers in your everyday work,
4. Clear direction on how and when to ask questions and seek support to keep you safe.

When companies realize their staff needs training, the hardest part is often deciding who to spend the money on.   Joe from R&D?  Jane from Engineering?  Bob from Finance?  Carol from Sales?   

In the end, most companies just send the same person, every time, which leads the rest of the employees to assume that this stuff must be irrelevant to them, so they don't worry about it, which continues to put the company in jeopardy.

There's one solution:  send everybody.

Well, not everybody, that might be impossible; but if you choose a class that doesn't charge by the attendee, you can send everyone who it MIGHT help.  and that's your best possible approach.

So, send everyone who ever deals with vendors, foreign or domestic, and everyone who deals with purchases and sales, and everyone who selects or approves packaging, and vendor selection, and advertising design, and everyone involved in shipping or customer service, or invoices and purchase orders.

Better someone learns something he or she didn't really need, than someone making million dollar errors because he or she didn't know their issues were relevant.

John F. Di Leo has been involved in the import/export world for half a century now.  He's worked for liquor distributors and petrochemical manufacturers, freight forwarders and Customs brokers, American family businesses and global manufacturing conglomerates.

John has worked on both sides of the transportation industry desk, as both a shipper and a carrier, with a broad career in transportation management, Import entry filing, and trade compliance training.

John knows how the big companies train their staffs to manage their import/export compliance risk, because he's been that trainer - presenting dozens of programs, hundreds and hundreds of times, both in person and by webinar, over the past twenty years.

This is your opportunity to give your staff - and your company - some of the same protection that the big companies have, all in a one day awareness workshop.

And if you can't spare everyone who needs it for the same one-day program, no problem - we can come back a second time at a discounted rate so that everyone who needs the training can get it!

The American Economy is Back! 

From raw materials and components to complex finished products, American factories and distribution centers are working overtime as the economy rebounds! 

However, with new orders comes the challenge of global trade compliance, a crucial area that impacts every role and product, yet is often overlooked in business school curricula. 

That's where we come in. We don't seek transportation business or software design projects. Instead, we specialize in trade compliance training, and that's our sole focus. Our trainers excel at making these complex regulations accessible and understandable for all audiences. 

We will assist you in meeting and exceeding your customers' expectations, ensuring you and your clients are protected through a compliant trade process!