I am joined by Jay Charkow, who's the president at ITM, and we also have with us today one of our existing clients, Peter George. Peter's company has worked with us for years and we've managed a duty drawback program. But today we're going to talk about classification. And Peter has come to us with an opportunity for a classification review. We thought that it would be great to sit down with him and have him tell us a little bit about his product and determine if he is classifying his products properly. We hope you will gain some valuable insight into the world of customs tariffs. With all th ..read more

I'm Tony Sargis with the U.S. Dept. of Commerce Commercial Service, Connecticut office, and we're holding webinars for manufacturing month in October, we've received a lot of feedback regarding the Trade Talk Tuesday series. You'll note that the sessions are kind of quick, so we're here for about 20 minutes. We'll address a few questions in the Q&A at the end of the presentation. Our speaker today is Jill LaMadeleine, Vice President at International Tariff Management. Jill is a duty drawback and classification specialist. ITM has been in the industry for over 40 years, helping clients fin ..read more

Joining us today are Tony Sargis from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Joe Raycraft from the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of International Trade, and Jay Charkow from International Tariff Management. I'd like to ask each of you to tell our listeners a little bit about the expertise that you are bringing to this conversation.  Tony Sargis is a senior international trade specialist with the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Commercial Service out of Middletown, Connecticut. In this capacity, Tony works with small and medium sized companies to assist them in developing and ac ..read more

Today we're going to talk about classification and  the number one question we get is why is a proper classification important?  Anything that's brought into the United States must be classified according to the harmonized tariff schedule, and it's given a number and duties are assessed against that number. And other requirements such as federal other federal laws are applied against that number. And if the number is wrong, companies can be penalized for allowing those goods to come into the country improperly. So it's extremely important. The first step in bringing anything into t ..read more

Today, we're going to be talking about the most frequently asked questions in regards to the 301 tariffs. If you joined us last month, we tackled all the frequently asked questions about duty drawback. And today we're going to shift our focus to the 301 duties. And joining me today, I'm lucky enough to have Jay Charkow, who is the president at ITM. Well, nobody knows the 301 information more than you do Jay.  Well, it comes out of a lot of research and and working with a lot of clients that pay a lot of 301 duties.  So let's let's start really basic and let's why don't you tell us ..read more

Today, we're going to talk about the most frequently asked questions that we find in regards to duty drawback, which is one of the services that we specialize in. Joining me today for our discussion is Samantha Vallee. Samantha is a tariff manager at ITM and has graciously agreed to join me today and share the top questions people have in regards to duty drawback. Today, we'll answer those questions for you. We hope you will gain some valuable insight into the world of customs tariffs. With all the supply chain challenges the world is facing, our aim is to maximize your duty drawback dollars a ..read more

In this month's episode, we are fortunate to be joined by Danielle Orcutt and Ed Kim from Corpay. They will be discussing how to minimize currency exchange volatility in global trade. Corpay is a global leader in business payments. Corpay delivers unmatched service and expertise with respect to moving money globally. They provide power to their clients international payments and execute plans to manage currency risk in order to support their growth around the world. Corpay will look at your full assets exposure, identify potential risks, and create a hedging policy for you. So there's no need ..read more

Thank you for tuning in with us today. I'm Carrie Irwin with International Tariff Management, and I'm the director of sales. Today, we're going to discuss destruction, drawback opportunities for all our importers and exporters out there. My guest today is Jill La Madeleine, who is the vice president and a licensed customs broker with ITM. Jill has been with ITM for over 25 years and works regularly with destruction drawback.  Hello, Jill.  Hi, Kerry. Thanks for having me today.  Great to have you. Could you tell us what is destruction Drawback destruction?  Drawback is t ..read more

Every company who imports goods into the U.S. has a customs broker that must bring goods into the country and follow certain regulations. The classification process is very difficult. There are 99 chapters in the tariff that leads to over 10,000 different sections where goods can be classified. It's very important that the goods fall into the right classification. There are penalties and other ramifications, financially, that can occur if imported goods are not classified properly. That's where we come in. We are experts in the proper classification of imported goods and we ensure that compani ..read more

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