Audience:
Open industry. All apparel and footwear industry professionals, regardless of AAFA membership, are encouraged to participate.
Description:
As margin pressure and tariff volatility continue to reshape global trade, importers are placing greater focus on what happens after contracts are signed. This educational session explores how leading importers are strengthening contract-to-cash discipline across international freight operations.
Using practical shipper examples, the session will examine how organizations improve forecast accuracy, reduce cost leakage from misapplied contract terms, and bring greater structure to detention, demurrage, chassis, and yard storage management. The discussion will also address how procurement, logistics, and finance teams can better align around shared data to support day-to-day execution and longer-term decision-making.
Attendees will gain a practical framework for identifying where cost leakage occurs, prioritizing process improvements, and applying these practices within their own international supply chains.
Attendees of this webinar will learn:
- What changed on July 8, what is in scope (including Section 321), the FTZ Jan. 2027 date, and what CPSC's "warnings-not-rejections" enforcement posture really means in practice.
- How to use the CPSC HTS guidance list to identify flagged products and connect certificate data to products, suppliers, and entry lines at catalog scale—so compliance survives audits without manual bottlenecks.
- How a connected data foundation plus a trusted broker relationship creates durable regulatory resilience: the same product-to-entry-line intelligence and filing workflow that solves CPSC eFiling positions importers for the next PGA message set, the next agency mandate, and the next rule change—instead of rebuilding from scratch each time.
Speakers:
Courtney Kantowski
Technical Account Management Team Lead, Logistics
Altana
Courtney Kantowski is a Senior Technical Account Manager at Altana, where she leads the Logistics TAM team. She works hands-on with brokers and logistics providers to operationalize supply chain intelligence for trade compliance, classification, and regulatory readiness — including connecting product, supplier, and entry-line data into structured, audit-ready workflows.
Ania Wierzbowska Fuller
Director of Consulting and Regulatory Affairs
A.N. Deringer
Ania Fuller is Director of Consulting and Regulatory Affairs at A.N. Deringer, where she leads the Trade Compliance Services Team. She’s a Licensed U.S. Customs Broker with 20+ years in global trade operations and compliance, including nearly 12 years at Target Corporation across trade operations and trade compliance leadership roles. She advises importers on building compliance programs that withstand a fast-changing trade environment.
AAFA Host:
Audrey Clark
Trade and Transportation Specialist
AAFA
Audrey Clark is responsible for supporting the association’s trade policy efforts and leading the Transportation Team as the committee liaison. Prior to joining AAFA in November 2023, Audrey worked as Export Program Coordinator at the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. (DISCUS) where she managed eight international export promotion campaigns and supported four DISCUS committees. She previously worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) where she was awarded the Pearce Prize Achievement Award and served as Program Coordinator for Streaming & Broadcasting. She has earned both her bachelor’s and master's degrees in International Affairs from Georgia Tech.
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