Regina Walton

REGINA WALTON is an auditor for Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A. She assists clients on a wide range of import compliance issues, including from preparing compliance manuals to conducting import compliance reviews and risk assessments to providing counsel during audits and enforcement actions.  

Ms. Walton has more than 30 years’ experience in the audit, customs, and trade environment. Immediately prior to joining STR she served as a senior accountant in U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Finance, where her work included testing import transactions to ensure the accuracy of duty and fee collections, bond sufficiency, and tariff classification; tracking and updating corrective actions and audit recommendations in line with established milestones on remediation efforts; and leading AD/CV duty evasion investigations.  

Earlier in her career at CBP she served as chief of audit policy in the Office of Trade, where she led a group to streamline Focused Assessment audit processes, developed and maintained the National Annual Audit Plan, and managed the Importer Self-Assessment program for more than 200 international companies. 

Ms. Walton also worked in a number of capacities in the private sector for many years, where her accomplishments included managing corporate import, export, and supply chain security operations; managing foreign-trade zones; crafting standard operating procedures for international supply chain management; standing up an import compliance department and developing customs compliance manuals; and conducting audits. 

Ms. Walton holds a B.S. degree in business management from Southern University and has been a licensed customs broker for nearly 25 years. 

Regina Walton is not admitted to the practice of law.