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President's Message

On the 1st of January, 2010, we all hit the ground running. I believe our jam packed and very productive January, now on the books, is a positive indicator of how the year will progress for our association.

On January 15th, we held our annual FTA retreat in Temecula. The retreat was an overwhelming success and all board members left more energized than when they arrived. We are looking forward to a bumper year with many programs planned. We will also continue to put forth top notch educational classes for our membership. We value the feedback from our members, so if you have any suggestions or ideas on programs or educational seminars, please feel free to share these with your board as we would love to hear them.

Our first program of the year, “Advanced Apparel Import and Customs Compliance Workshop” was a great success. We had a full house and, as always, Tom Gould did a fantastic job. It was also great to have Customs Border Protection join us for this event, and we look forward to working closer with Customs Border Protection on other events in the coming year.

Our cooperation with AAEI allowed our membership to participate in their regional seminar at a discounted rate. We were very pleased to see so many of our members take advantage of this.

From the outset, February is shaping up to be another great month. Back by popular demand will be ISF Roundtable Discussion III, February 22, 2010. Now that ISF has entered the enforcement phase, we encourage our members to join our "members only" roundtable discussion. At this workshop, our members will be able to share ideas with other members about their own ISF experiences. Our past workshops have been a great success and I encourage those members who have not participated in the past to do so.

In February we will also hold our first Roundtable Program for our members whose primary focus is exports. Exports in the USA have garnered some much needed attention as was evident by our President’s State of the Union address. Our export roundtable program will be held on Feb. 25th, and we will have more details in the near future.

On February 23rd, we will also be co-hosting a special workshop on Broker Self Assessment, ACE, and anti-dumping and countervailing duties with our friends at the Los Angeles Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Association.

In February we will also start our ever popular four week course, Comprehensive Preparation for the Customs Brokers License Examination. Our first session is February 13th, which is fast approaching, so we encourage those members who plan to take the course to sign up as soon as possible.

As always, I want to remind all our members that I welcome any feedback. If you have any suggestions for your association, I am all ears. I also want to take this opportunity to encourage our members to try and sign up just one new member in 2010.

Sincerely,

Carlo De Atouguia

President

 


 

 

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