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UPS Supply Chain Solutions held its annual customs education
seminar for customers in June, with more than 100 client
companies. Attendees learned about how to comply with new
Custom’s requirements, such as the prior notice program. They
received advice from highly experienced speakers with knowledge
in several industries. The global logistics subsidiary of UPS
has offered the seminars several years in keeping with its long
tradition of providing clients with critical industry
information.
This annual seminar “Preparing Our Clients for the
Future,” is only one way in which
UPS Supply Chain Solutions meets its commitment to providing
clients with information relating to
U.S.
/ Mexico Customs laws, regulations and technological
advancements.
SPEAKERS BRING EXTENSIVE EXPERTISE
Speakers at the full day seminar have extensive
backgrounds in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and
global logistics. Guest speakers included. Albert Queen,
regulatory audit trade liaison specialist for the CBP office of
Strategic Trade, Regulatory Audit Division. Queen is responsible
for interacting with trade groups and other customs disciplines
to share techniques and approaches to improve regulatory audit
processes. He’s been with CBP for 21 years.
Speaking about the new requirements and programs with
Mexican Customs was Rafael Lorenzo Prieto, principal of Bryan
Consulting, the trade and business consulting branch of Bryan,
González Vargas & González Baz, and partner of lobbying and
governmental compliance at BGV&GB. He has assisted in
establishing foreign companies under maquila, PITEX and shelter
programs.
Speakers from the El Paso CBP office included. Frank
Fuentes, chief inspector, who has been employed with CBP since
1977 and is currently chief of the Bridge of the Americas (BOTA)
cargo facility. Ruben Femat, senior customs officer and CBP
Hazardous Material Coordinator, is assigned to the Hazardous
Materials Office at Ysleta Cargo, in charge of the approval and
or inspection of all hazardous shipments entering or departing
the
United States.
UPS Supply Chain Solutions speakers included Irma Camacho, El
Paso general manager, who has 13 years with the company and has
held positions including domestic logistics manager,
transportation operations manager and director of
transportation. In her current position, Camacho is responsible
for brokerage services, transportation services and warehousing
distribution services.
Robert A. Perkins, global director of regulatory affairs
has been a licensed customs broker since 1974. He has worked in
the management information systems and compliance areas with
responsibility for MIS technology issues and regulatory
programs. Perkins has been published in many journals and
recently wrote an article for the Border Trade alliance on the
new Entry Revisions Project. Perkins has participated in the
American Association of Importers and Exporters and most
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