On October 12, the United States Congress ratified several landmark free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. While still awaiting the President’s signature, which is expected, these agreements are sure to usher in a new level of trade activity with these countries.

This September, American Shipper hosted a webinar covering a topic that many are interested in - but there are few resources are available to address the problem. I'm not saying it was groundbreaking, but for once we were able to openly discuss what c-level executives need to hear to make trade compliance a priority.

Webinar: Global Trade Initiatives & Capabilities
December 2, 2010 at 4 – 5PM, EST

Following the AberdeenGroup’s research with 136 enterprises from September and “regarding growth and complexity in global trade operations, we can see that changes in trade lanes, shifts in trade volume and increases in overall supply chain complexity have combined to place a renewed focus on the concept of global trade management and compliance,” said Bob Heaney, senior research analyst of supply chain management at Aberdeen.

Please join AberdeenGroup and distinguished industry executives (topic areas are considered sensitive and company names are not disclosed) as they discuss global trade management initiatives and practices within their enterprises around FTZ, Restricted Party Screening, 10+2 and other initiatives. Key topic areas covered in the recent report will also be highlighted.

For those of you who have the Trade Compliance Blues, here's a song and a video.

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The AberdeenGroup has come out with a brand new report, which will be available for free for a limited time –

Global Trade Management: Strategies for Mastering Trade Compliance and Supply Chain Complexity.

In this video, Nathan Pieri, Management Dynamics Senior VP of Marketing & Product Management and Russell Goodman, Editor-In-Chief of SupplyChainBrain discuss what is making Management Dynamics, and its global trade management software, such a valuable partner to its clients.

Although international trade has been contracting throughout the world, the Global Trade Management software market has been faring quite well, according to ARC Advisory Group, a leading research firm in the supply chain industry, which discussed these interesting results in an article in SupplyChainBrain.com.

The below question was posted on LinkedIn, and although I don't have any stories of my own to share, maybe some of my readers do! Follow the directions below to submit your funny & amazing import/export stories.

On the heels of Xe Services' (formerly Blackwater) recent $42 million fine for export violations; Barclays has also been hit with a whopping $298 million fine.