Many importers, even those with years of experience, do not fully appreciate the importance of properly handling the day-to-day procedural matters that arise when managing an import operation. This comprehensive webinar focuses on the most frequently encountered issues facing importers and offers practical information on how to protect your company’s interests.
On Demand Webinar
Introduction to Importing: The Real Basics
Customs & Import Compliance
About The Webinar
Key Topics
- The role and responsibilities of the customs broker
- Surety bonds: what they are and what they mean for the importer
- The importance of proper recordkeeping
- Liquidation notices in the age of electronic processing, requests for information, rejection notices, and other communications from U.S. Customs
- In-bond shipments
- Conditional release of merchandise and redelivery notices
- Changes to entries: post-entry amendments, post-summary corrections, and prior disclosures
- Protests and correction of clerical errors
- Customs enforcement actions: penalties, detentions, and seizures
Speakers 
James A. Amyx Member
James A. Amyx Member
JAMES AMYX is a member with Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., resident in the Houston office.
Mr. Amyx provides legal guidance to clients on a number of import-related matters, including tariff classification, valuation, country of origin and origin marking, requests for rulings and internal advice, and trade remedies. He also assists with compliance and enforcement issues, including developing and implementing import compliance procedures, submitting prior disclosures, and responding to CF-28s, CF-29s, and penalty and pre-penalty notices.
Matthew S. Cummins Member
Matthew S. Cummins Member
MATTHEW CUMMINS is a Member with Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., resident in the Houston office.
Mr. Cummins has extensive experience in pursuing administrative remedies for clients’ import-related issues with U.S. Customs and Border Protection at both the local port and headquarters levels, including with respect to tariff classification, country of origin, valuation, and trade preference program eligibility. He has represented clients before U.S. regulatory bodies, including defending against trade remedy evasion allegations; preparing and submitting prior disclosures, ruling requests, administrative protests, and penalty petitions; and seeking relief from antidumping, Section 301, and Section 232 duties.
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