Seminar: Canada-USA Trade Policy and Compliance Update

Partner and Customs Practice Leader, ArentFox Schiff

Angela helps companies identify business solutions and structure their transactions to facilitate the importation of merchandise, ensure regulatory compliance, minimize duties, and eliminate Customs penalty exposure. She is especially knowledgeable in the field of fashion, consumer products, and electronics imports and has assisted many prominent brands and fashion houses.

Her experience allows her to comprehensively advise fashion and retail companies on the issues specific to their industry. − Forced Labor International Australia Bar & Court Admissions New Jersey New York US Court of International Trade Education Brooklyn Law School, JD, 2010  Boston University, BS, 2003 (Business Administration, Angela leads the ArentFox Schiff Task Force designed to assist clients with navigating forced labor developments and import restrictions.

She helps clients identify and mitigate the risk of forced labor in their supply chains. Angela works with companies to ensure that all regulatory requirements are observed and that policies and procedures are in place to prevent the use of forced labor in the production of their products.

Angela responds to Customs questionnaires and prepares petitions for the release of merchandise detained in connection with forced labor Withhold Release Orders. Angela helps clients to stay up to date on new developments, such as the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, and government enforcement measures in the space. 

Sr. Vice President of Compliance and Client Services
at Carson International. Along with Rick Carson he opened offices in Western Canada and the United States in 1983 for Carson International. He is an active member of IE Canada,  The National Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders of America (NCBFAA), Canadian Society of Customs Brokers (CSCB), Washington State Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association, and IATA. 

He is a frequent speaker on various customs and transportation topics in Canada and the United States, including USMCA, Valuation, Trade Agreements, Transfer Pricing, Customs audits, Compliance programs and Tariff Engineering.

Satinder is a Trade & Customs consultant for Miller Thomson, LLP in Vancouver. Satinder has close to twenty years of work experience working in the Trade & Customs environment. He provides advice to clients on various customs programs (Valuation, Classification, Origin, Import & Export Controls, and Sanctions). Satinder’s service for clients includes developing duty minimization strategies, mitigating customs risk, customs duty recovery, assessing NAFTA eligibility for goods, requesting Customs Ruling from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), helping clients navigate through countervailing and antidumping investigations, Appeals and assisting lawyers develop arguments to be heard at the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT).

Satinder worked for the CBSA as a Trade Verification Officer as well as a Trade & Customs consultant for two large public accounting firms.

Specialities: customs valuation; tariff classification; origin;
customs duty recovery; customs compliance audits; customs systems reviews; export controls, customs transfer pricing; dispute resolution (appeals, rulings, audits etc.); and Import & Export permits.