We want to focus our next webinar on the produce industry.  How are the current tariffs affecting trade and trade agreements and what insight is available to help you with your logistics decisions?  We also wanted to provide a platform to answer your brokerage questions.

To share the latest available information, offer opinion and suggestions, and to answer your questions, we're bringing together produce industry experts for our next webinar.

 

Vince Iacopella will host our special guests Pat Compres, Co-President & Founder at Advance Customs Brokers International, LLC, and Su Ross, Attorney with Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP to discuss some of the most pressing issues for your business right now:

  

- Key changes in the new tariffs

 

Join us on Tuesday, April 15th at 2pm ET/11am PT to hear the discussion and pose your own questions to our panel.

 

If you'd like to submit a question that we pose to the panel on your behalf, please use your registration form to submit it to us.

Su’s practice focuses on compliance whether dealing with cybersecurity/privacy or international trade. She deals with regulatory, civil and criminal issues. Her clients come to her for assistance to solve current challenges, but also to identify and manage risk.  For our webinar, Su will break down produce industry topics and provide her opinion and insight for international produce trade.
 

 

Vince is a licensed Customs Broker and past president of the Los Angeles Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association. He's now Chairman of the Pacific Coast Council of Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders. In March 2013, he was appointed to the 13th Commercial Customs Advisory Committee for Customs and Border Protection, better known as COAC.

Vince served on the 14th COAC as Trade Co-Chair. While on COAC, Vince worked on customs broker regulations, automation of trade data in ACE, and e-commerce Sec 321 de minimus policy. Vince serves as the Los Angeles Vice Chair of the District Export Council of Southern Council, and is on the Board of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce. Vince is also on the Board of Governors of the American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI).

At Alba, Vince works on growth strategy initiatives that drive value to Alba's mid-market and global customers.  Vince focuses collaboration with US Government agencies, such as the COAC, which allows the trade to influence CBP policy and align it to the commercial interests of the private sector.