Navigating Tariffs Through the First Sale Valuation Strategy: Broker and Importer Roles & Responsibilites
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In today’s complex global trade environment, managing costs and maintaining compliance are more critical than ever. The First Sale Rule offers a powerful, but often underutilized, opportunity for importers to legally reduce their duty burden—especially in the face of rising tariffs.
Join us for an informative webinar designed for customs professionals, and trade compliance teams to explore how leveraging the First Sale Rule can become a key part of your tariff mitigation strategy. Our expert speaker will break down how First Sale works, eligibility criteria, documentation requirements, and how to implement it effectively in your supply chain. Real-world examples and recent case studies will be shared to help you assess whether this strategy is right for your organization.
Speaker
Lenny Feldman
Lenny Feldman is a Managing Partner and Operating Committee Member at Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., resident in the firm’s Miami office. He is recognized internationally as a leading strategic advisor, previously co-chairing the twenty-member Customs and Border Protection’s Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee. He provides strategic recommendations and guidance directly to CBP, Homeland Security and Treasury executives on issues such as forced labor, intellectual property rights, e-commerce policy, trade partnership programs and legal/regulatory modernization.
He currently serves as General Counsel and Customs Counsel to the National Customs Brokers & Freight Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA). He also serves on the board of governors of the American Association of Exporters and Importers and as one of their delegates to the World Customs Organization Private Sector Working Group in Brussels. Previously, Lenny served as lead counsel to the Florida Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association and as a former chairman of the World Trade Center of Miami.
Lenny has counseled thousands of companies in creating “comply chains” while increasing efficiencies and lowering costs. Mr. Feldman innovatively and resourcefully resolves complex issues pertaining to import compliance, valuation, trade preference, country of origin, seizures, penalties, antidumping and countervailing duty, CTPAT/border security, bonded facilities, FTZs and other government agency admissibility and licensing.
Lenny was a senior attorney with Customs Headquarters in Washington, D.C., from 1991 to 2000. He issued several hundred national guidelines, directives, and administrative rulings and was a NAFTA negotiator. After leaving Customs, Mr. Feldman served as the chief compliance officer and vice president, international, for a trade and logistics software development company responsible for content and automation pertaining to the trade laws of more than 100 countries
MODERATOR:
David Harlow
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