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WESCCON 2011

October 13 - 16, 2011 Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa Rancho Mirage, CA Business Topics at WESCCON CFR 111 Review: What it Means for the Customs Broker.  Due process for brokers for suspension of electronic filing tools, expanded broker role in C-TPAT and other programs, continuing education requirements --How will these changes impact our business?      POA Verification and Broker Relationships.  Client Verification and Relationships with Freight Forwarders/OTI’s.  Are you doing it right?         ISF: Penalties and Procedures for Non-Compliant Shipments.  What will happen with non-compliant ISF shipments arriving into the U.S.?  A discussion about ISF in the penalty phase and what happens to non-compliant cargo at the port of entry.      ACE: Updates on Cargo Release, AMS Manifest, and Late Filing Penalties.  An update on ACE funding, Advanced manifest through ACE, cargo release and upcoming expectations for brokers.      FDA: Broker Liabilities, FSMA, Transparency Report.  A discussion about reasonable care, broker due diligence, FSMA funding and who should be responsible for food safety.       Changing Trends in Broker Management.  Recent CBP outreach to brokers, due process, electronic filing tools, compliance measurement . . . What can brokers expect going forward?          HTS Changes for 2012: Major HTS/tariff schedule changes are coming in 2012.  What are they?  Are you ready?     Government Regulation and Involvement in the Export Process – A Roundtable with BIS, CBP Outbound, AES Census.  A look at current and pending regulations and how the agencies view their effect on exporters and each other, as well as their role in the outbound cargo process.     When Bad Things Happen to Good Freight Forwarders.  You have a good standard export processing operating procedure in place, but something slipped by you.  Find out from the legal experts what you should do.     The Risks of Hiring Third Parties to Facilitate Exports.  Freight Forwarders, OTI’s and NVOCC’s all hire outside vendors everyday to dray containers and perform a variety of other services for customers.  What liabilities have we taken on and how can we protect ourselves?          NVOCC Tariff Filing Exemption and Rate Agreements (NRA’s).  We asked for it . . . We got it.  Now what?  Who is eligible for exemption and what should you know if you are NRA’s? Update on Key Pending Export Legislation and Progress of Obama’s Export Control Reform -- What Forwarders, OTI’s, and NVO’s Should Know to Stay Ahead of the Curve.  We’ve heard a lot about initiatives to enhance U.S. exports.  What is really being proposed and how can we prepare for it?     Equipment and Capacity Availability Challenges in Exporting: Truck Chassis, Containers, Vessel Space.  An update on carrier capacity, container availability, and changes in the way we get chassis for our customers’ containers.  Is there still a shortage of containers and capacity?  If so, what is being done to deal with this challenge?