Webinar Series
Our Best Value!
If your firm is anything like most firms, your employees are always busy. Always. It's hard to get them together in one room for a two hour meeting, let alone for a two-day event.
While we all know that in-person, on-site training is the best - the most effective - we have to have a solution for situations like this, when you simply can't get your whole office to shut down for a day or two so everyone can attend the same class.
We have a solution.
We would like to offer you a program in which you have a dependable webinar schedule, with the same basic classes offered again and again throughout the year, so that everyone who needs it can get the training, at their convenience.
Even companies that authorize training - budgeting the time, budgeting the cost - still find that employees don't get their approved training, because they just can't make the time, or because they personally think they're being better employees by saving you the money on something you know they need, but they really think they don't.
By purchasing an annual subscription to our program, you solve both problems - they can make the time because they get repeat opportunities to attend, and since it's already paid for, they're costing you money if they don't show up. While it pays for itself if just one person takes all the classes, your best value is to have dozens of employees take them. And if someone didn't fully absorb everything in a program, they can take it again, because unlimited attendance by your employees is already paid for.
These two-hour-or-less live courses can be offered again and again, over the course of the year, live, with opportunities for Q&A.
You could have a whole department attend at once, viewing it jointly in your conference room, or each of twenty people could attend different sessions, dialing in from their desktops, or even from their laptops if they're working from home or the road.
Our job is to train your staff on trade compliance issues; we want to make it as convenient for your as possible!
Repetitive Courses - The Webinar Series
Offerings
These are our regular repeat classes, offered in rotation. Your employees can have multiple opportunities per year to attend each one, although some are offered more often than that, just because some classes are for everyone, and some have more limited appeal.
We can work together on negotiating the schedule that fits your needs and price.
Sample Courses
- Re-Shoring in the 2020s - Red Flags to Check with New Foreign Vendors
- An Overview of Today's Complicated Tariff Landscape
- Trade Compliance for Purchasing
- Trade Compliance for Sales and Customer Service
- Trade Compliance for Management
- The Self Audit - Recognizing Our Risks and Developing a Plan
- Country of Origin Determination
- Country of Origin Marking Requirements
- Free Trade Agreements Overview - USMCSA, DR-CAFTA, etc.
- Free Trade Agreement Qualification, Documentation, and Recordkeeping Requirements
- Recordkeeping - Import, Export, Origin, and More
- Introduction to Export Controls - Parties, Countries, Products, and Deemed Exports
- Import/Export Documentation Basics
- Basics of Customs Valuation for both Imports and Exports
- Working with Foreign Vendors - Valuation and the Challenge of Dutiable Assists
- Understanding the Incoterms 2020 Rules
- Using Commercial Letters of Credit
- Basics of HTS Coding: The Customs Classification Process
- Customs Duties and How They Work
- Pallets, Crates and Dunnage: - ISPM15 Wood Treatment Requirements and Marking
- Introduction to Hazardous Materials
- Sales-in-Transit - Managing the Risks and Keeping Parties and Documents Straight
- Working with Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders
- Change Management - Re-sourcing Materials and Moving Production Lines
Testimonials and Feedback about our Trainers
"Very helpful and thorough. I think it covers all points of view from the actual shipment of the equipment to the customers/suppliers' impact."
- Alejandra J
"I believe the class was very helpful. You provided great examples and went into great detail... all in all, very interesting and relevant training."
- Charles G.
"As always the content is backed up with real work examples that helps the audience relte to the material."
- Travis D.
"Course content was very informative with enough detail that we could see the ground without being deep in the weeds."
Graydon F.
"I very much enjoyed your enthusiasm and efforts to make a fairly dry subject matter interesting and fun."
- Tom T.
"I love your enthusiasm during the presentations. I found this to be very helpful, and hopefully the right people will take this presentation and follow your direction!"
- Rich K.
"Excellent tactical training! He is a gifted teacher... does a fantastic job keeping folks engaged & listening. His entertaining and tactically sound approach distills a complex subject into easy-to-follow steps and thoughts."
- Aaron G.
"We had a great class, all was very clear and easy to understand, even better you made it enjoyable. We walked away with very good tips and recommendations. It just couldn't have been better, congratulations!"
- Hugo O.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How does it work?
A: How do YOU want it to work? You can book several sessions at once, spaced across the upcoming year, such as a quarterly meeting for each department or a quarterly meeting for management to meet together... or just have us come in for a couple days of intensive presentations, dawn to dusk, once a year.... whatever works for your team.
Q: How is it priced?
A: With most seminar companies, pricing is based on the number of employees likely to take some of the classes, but that adds up quickly and frankly, from the presenter's perspective, the difference between ten and a hundred isn't significant. So we prefer a method that enables YOU to justify having the most staffers in the room. Call us at 224-324-6231 or email us at info@tradecomplianceseminars.com, and let's discuss it!
Let's say you have a small business with five buyers, five salesmen, five customer service reps, and engineers, managers, accountants and traffic clerks adding up to 30. You might not be able to afford to send all thirty to every presentation they really need. The best method is to empower you to put as many of your people in the room as possible, because this is all about protecting your business - and your customers too - from the many risks of international trade.
Q: How long are the classes?
A: We know that webinars have to be short. We make them as interesting as possible, but most wind up between one and two hours. We never go over two hours. Some topics, such as country of origin, free trade agreements, and valuation, are split into two or three sub-areas to keep within the two-hour limit. In person, on site, of course, we can be flexible. It may be most cost-effective for you to pull all of management, or all of some departments, into one room for a half a day to ensure that everyone hears the same message, and so everyone is engaged in the same discussions.
Q: Is this the final list of topics?
A: Not at all. We do occasionally add other topics, like when there's news about new duty rates in a trade war, or changes to a free trade agreement.
Subscribers will be told about such new additions in the quarterly schedule.
Q: What if we want training in person?
A: Excellent! We love in-person, onsite training! As described on the homepage, we happily offer customized courses or in-person presentations of all our programs at your site... from a focus on specific subjects like preparing for The New NAFTA or a broader overview such as a high level coaching program that merges the concepts of HR-based culture training with the themes of global trade participation. Send us an email or give us a call to discuss!
Q: What kind of certification is involved?
A: Our main trainer is a U.S. licensed Customhouse brokers, who has been doing trade compliance training at the global level for 30 years, from large companies like divisions of Allied Signal and Union Carbide to smaller manufacturers like Hoffman Enclosures, Pentair Filtration, Aspen Motion and Andis Company.
These programs do not constitute legal advice; they are generically designed for all of our different subscribers. These programs cover the basic information that Customs authorities expect everyone involved in international commerce at your business to know.
Customers occasionally need very customer-specific assistance from your broker/forwarders, your global accounting firm, your law department, or export control consultants. Those talented professionals, however, cannot read minds, so they don't know that your business needs their help unless you know to approach them and ask. So our purpose is to raise the red flags for you that your teams most likely never knew were red flags at all. In every class we give, there is some violation mentioned that causes an attendee to say "but we do that all the time; I had no idea there were rules against that!" Our job is to show you that you have an issue BEFORE Customs or other regulator catch it, so you can fix the practice on your own.
If you do need outside experts besides your regular providers, we can help recommend such services, but we do not offer such legal advice ourselves. This program is basic training that your staffers and managers need, to navigate the waters of international trade on a day-to-day basis.
This service is not a replacement for your firm having your own import/export expert(s) on staff. This training is designed to support your trade compliance team, by ensuring that your departments know when to reach out to their import/export chief in advance, and the import/export chief doesn't have to spend all his or her time fixing mistakes, putting out fires, and handling audits.
We cannot be your complete trade compliance department... but we can be your staff's trade compliance trainers... at a great value!
Q: So how do we get started?
A: Just reach out to us at 224-324-6231 or info@tradecomplianceseminars.com and let's talk!