BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P1H REFRESH-INTERVAL:P1H CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260811T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260811T150000 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Webinar: CPSC DESCRIPTION:The NAFTZ CPSC Webinar in response to event attendee surveys requesting to cover this topic in more detail. Featured Speaker(s): Katie Tangman\, Columbia Sportswear Co.\, and Christopher Smith\, IKEA\, will review protocols and best practices and developments. A Q&A session will follow the presentation. By registering one agrees to be compliance with NAFTZ policy/guidelines and emailed up to once per sponsor (if applicable).This session will cover the latest developments and resources. One will be able to:Review protocols\, best practices and developments SpeakersKatie Tangman is the Senior Director of Global Customs and Trade at Columbia Sportswear Company\, where she leads a global team of trade professionals across the U.S.\, Canada\, France\, and Vietnam. Her team is responsible for ensuring trade compliance and driving a wide range of duty optimization initiatives\, including tariff engineering\, FTA utilization\, Foreign Trade Zones\, Bonded Warehouses\, and First Sale for Export programs.With 16 years at Columbia Sportswear\, Katie brings deep industry knowledge and strategic leadership to the company's global trade operations. Prior to joining Columbia\, she served as Managing Partner and Director of Strategic Resource Development at Geo. S. Bush & Company\, a regional customs brokerage and freight forwarding firm\, where she specialized in developing innovative trade solutions and client strategies.\nChristopher Smith is a trade advisor in the Customs Coordination Center\, North America for IKEA Purchasing Services (US) Inc. He received a B.S. degree in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York College at Brockport in 1996 and obtained his Customs Brokers License in 1998. From 1992 to 2006 Mr. Smith worked for Eastman Kodak Company in warehouse and logistics primarily as an Import Compliance Specialist. In his current position with IKEA his responsibilities include establishing and maintaining corporate compliance with all US Customs and other Government agency regulations\, assist in communicating compliance requirements globally in the IKEA organization\, develop and manage Customs related projects for North America.\nEducational CREDITLearn more about AZS and CZS credit eligibility for webinar attendance on their applicable websites. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The NAFTZ CPSC Webinar in response to event attendee surveys requesting to cover this topic in more detail. \;

Featured Speaker(s): Katie Tangman\, Columbia Sportswear Co.\, and Christopher Smith\, IKEA\, will review protocols and best practices and developments. A Q&\;A session will follow the presentation. By registering one agrees to be compliance with NAFTZ policy/guidelines and emailed up to once per sponsor (if applicable).

This session will cover the latest developments and resources. One will be able to:

Speakers

Katie Tangman is the Senior Director of Global Customs and Trade at Columbia Sportswear Company\, where she leads a global team of trade professionals across the U.S.\, Canada\, France\, and Vietnam. Her team is responsible for ensuring trade compliance and driving a wide range of duty optimization initiatives\, including tariff engineering\, FTA utilization\, Foreign Trade Zones\, Bonded Warehouses\, and First Sale for Export programs.

With 16 years at Columbia Sportswear\, Katie brings deep industry knowledge and strategic leadership to the company&rsquo\;s global trade operations. Prior to joining Columbia\, she served as Managing Partner and Director of Strategic Resource Development at Geo. S. Bush &\; Company\, a regional customs brokerage and freight forwarding firm\, where she specialized in developing innovative trade solutions and client strategies.


Christopher Smith is a trade advisor in the Customs Coordination Center\, North America for IKEA Purchasing Services (US) Inc. He received a B.S. degree in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York College at Brockport in 1996 and obtained his Customs Brokers License in 1998. From 1992 to 2006 Mr. Smith worked for Eastman Kodak Company in warehouse and logistics primarily as an Import Compliance Specialist. In his current position with IKEA his responsibilities include establishing and maintaining corporate compliance with all US Customs and other Government agency regulations\, assist in communicating compliance requirements globally in the IKEA organization\, develop and manage Customs related projects for North America.


Educational CREDIT

Learn more about \;AZS \;and \;CZS \;credit eligibility for webinar attendance on their applicable websites. \;

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