Professional Association of Exporters and Importers

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Global Trade Controls: National Security Enforcement Trends Shaping Compliance

This event is eligible for CBL credits (U.S. Customs Brokers)

Join us for this interactive “webinar” with our industry experts on an overview of recent trade and national security enforcement trends.

Effective compliance programs are an essential defense for any business, particularly when the landscape is constantly shifting (and we have never seen shifts like this before). Learn defensive strategies you can put in place to maintain compliance with every new regulation that drops without notice or guidance. In this webinar, we will cover:

• Inside look at the DOJ’s newest criminal and civil enforcement priorities
• Economic sanctions and export controls—where enforcement is headed next from Commerce, State, and Treasury
• The newly expanded whistleblower program’s reach into trade violations
• The newly created Trade Fraud Task Force—and what industries should watch out
• False Claims Act in action: major trade enforcement cases and lessons learned
• Step-by-step compliance strategies

It is ideal for Export-Import Compliance professionals who want to prepare their programs and their leadership teams to weather today’s tumultuous regulatory environment. The seminar is available via webinar.

Speaker:

 Olga Torres, Founder and Managing Member of Torres Trade Law

Olga Torres is the Founder and Managing Member of Torres Trade Law an international trade and national security law firm. She regularly guides clients through a broad range of complex strategic and regulatory trade controls and national security matters, including developing effective strategies and conducting negotiations with U.S. regulatory agencies and, when needed, other regulators around the world. Clients with operations around the globe turn to Ms. Torres for assistance in ascertaining legal risks and improving legal compliance, and to manage complex investigative and administrative enforcement cases involving U.S. federal agencies.

She regularly represents companies before, and coordinates on behalf of her clients with, multiple federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Energy, and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. Clients also seek out her experience and guidance to obtain clearance of transactions that are subject to review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), and to identify and negotiate measures to mitigate Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI).

Ms. Torres frequently lectures on export controls, sanctions, and international trade for organizations, universities, U.S. embassies, and government agencies in different countries, including in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand, France, Canada, and the United States. She has been quoted in some of the most respected newspapers and publications, including The New York Times, Newsweek, the South China Morning Post, Bloomberg Law, Foreign Investment Watch, and Inside Washington Publishers, to name a few.

She has been an appointed member of the Defense Trade Advisory Group (DTAG), advising the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, since 2012. She is also part of the Foreign Investment Watch Editorial Board along with a distinguished group of peers comprising former heads of CFIUS and federal government agencies leading foreign investment and national security.