DVD/Manuals for Sale

USA-ITA regularly hosts seminars and webinars on important legal and trade issues -- and makes them available for purchase. We are pleased to offer this unique service to both our members and non-members - Older videos are recorded in standard VHS format - if placing an overseas order, please check to make sure your equipment is compatible with this format. Newer seminars are available on DVD and are compatible with PAL & NTSC formats.

Pricing: Unless noted otherwise, copies are for sale to members at $60.00 and to non-members at $80.00. The price includes shipping and handling. Please add $10.00 for each seminar to cover the additional postage on overseas orders.

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The ABC’s of Duty Free Programs: Strategies to Identify Duty-Free Sourcing Opportunities

Thursday, October 8, 2009 Seminar
Learn more about the ever-increasing list of countries from which textiles and apparel may be sourced free of duty.  A practical and user-friendly discussion of the different eligibility rules that apply under each program and learn about the critical elements of a record-keeping program necessary to sustain duty-free claims. We will also explore recent Customs enforcement developments in this “priority trade area” as well as the impact of recent Court decisions.

What’s Next for China Safeguard Measures: Seminar
Friday, September 18, 2009
With President Obama due to issue his first decision on a request for a safeguard measure against Chinese imports by September 17, the big question is what his decision will mean for the future of this special exception to normal trading rules.  Section 421 — the China product specific safeguard — allows the United States to impose duties or establish a quota for up to three years on Chinese products that are found to have caused “market disruption” as a result of increased trade.  President Bush declined to approve any of the 421 petitions presented during his Administration, finding that the harm to the economy as a whole outweighed any benefit that the petitioning industry might have received from temporary duties or quotas.  Speculation is high that President Obama will provide some relief to U.S. consumer tire workers.  If so, will that cause a flood of new petitions?  How likely is it that petitions will be filed against apparel made in China?  How does the Section 421 process work and what are the steps companies can take to best prepare for such a proceeding?

Duty Free Treatment for “Festive Articles”
Strategies to Avoid Duties and OBTAIN DUTY REFUNDS on Holiday and Other Special Occasion Themed Apparel, Housewares and Other Articles   Seminar
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Attend this hands-on seminar to learn more about one of the more overlooked duty-savings opportunities.Recent developments have significantly broadened the class of articles that may qualify for duty-free treatment as “festive articles”. Festive articles are generally those that are closely associated with a festive occasion and are used or displayed principally during that occasion. We will explore the increasingly broad coverage of occasions that may be considered festive (not just holidays) and consider the application of the duty-free festive article concept to:

Apparel, Linen, Housewares and Other Articles.

One Size Does Not Fit All: 10 + 2, the Lacey Act & Consumer Products Safety Act  (Webinar)

May 7, 2009
With corporate resources tight and being pulled in many directions, now is the time to prioritize. This webinar takes a look at three evolving regulations and focuses on what companies should be doing now. DVD format.

Doing Business Under the U.S. - Peru FTA (WEBINAR)

April 28, 2009   
The U.S. Peru Free Trade Agreement finally came into force on February 1, 2009. Do you know the rules for claiming the duty-free benefits under this newest FTA? Should you be claiming FTA benefits or are you better off with the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act rules?
This seminar touches on all the Peru FTA basics for apparel, including the yarn forward rules and single transformation opportunities, and most importantly all the exceptions to the rules, to help you evaluate the pluses and minuses of this newest FTA for your business. DVD Format

Complying with the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act: A Primer for Apparel Importers (Webinar)
January 21, 2009
Since August 14, 2008, when the new product safety law came into force, there has been a rush of information and confusion. But the deadlines for compliance have already come due, even while the details remain fuzzy. This webinar brings you up to date on the rules, on what you need to be sure you and your suppliers are doing, on how to limit costs, on what is yet to be decided, and on what you can do going forward. Tune in to learn from experts on the law and on testing about what your company needs to do to ensure that it is compliant with the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. DVD format

Going Green: Organic Cotton & Green Marketing Rules
September 17, 2008
How to Identify Organic Cotton / Documents Needed / Certification / Labeling / Fumigation Speakers:
Brenda Jacobs, Sidley Austin, LLP
Katherine Di Matteo
Organic Specialist, Wolf, DiMatteo & Associates
Grace Gershuny, Consultant to the Organic Trade Association
Kathleen Huddy, Director of Textiles, The Good Housekeeping Research Institute
DVD Format

New Rules for Haiti and Cumulation with Mexico for DR-CAFTA
July 31, 2008
The Rules keep changing, for Haiti and for DR-CAFTA. It's time to update your knowledge.
Congress recently made big changes in the rules for duty-free apparel made in Haiti, giving manufacturers and importers more options and new hope for doing business there. A program to promote worker rights is also part of the new law.

At long last, on August 15, the cumulation provisions of DR-CAFTA will allow Mexico and the DR-CAFTA countries to collaborate to produce duty-free garments. Find out how to take advantage of this new flexibility.

Costa Rica should join DR-CAFTA soon, triggering a firm 90-day deadline for claims for retroactive benefits for products that would have qualified for DR-CAFTA had it been in force since January 1, 2004. Now is the time to review records and prepare to file claims.
Speaker: Brenda Jacobs, USA-ITA Washington Trade Counsel, Sidley Austin LLP.
DVD format

CAFTA 101: What You Need to Know
April 29, 2008
This seminar covers all the CAFTA basics for apparel and footwear, including yarn forward and single transformation provisions; sewing thread, narrow elastic fabric, and lining requirements; de minimis; special rules about elastomeric yarns' amd CAFTA's many exceptions. The seminar gives "hands on" instruction to managers with product development and entry filing responsibility.
Special attention is given to the newest developments in the following areas: Pocketing Letters/
Cumulation/Proposed DR "2 for 1" program/Nicaragua TPL and "1 for 1" /Short Supply/
Recordkeeping/ documentation and factory visits.
Speakers: Jonathan Fee, Alston & Bird, LLP
Natalie Hanson, International Development Systems
DVD format

Countervailing Duty Investigations: Are They Coming Our Way?
December 19, 2007
Since the Commerce Department decided last year that Chinese products could be the subject of countervailing duty investigations, reversing a more than 20 year old policy, six more CVD cases have been filed. And now, the U.S. textile industry is boasting that it has compiled a list of some 73 programs it contends are illegal subsidies provided by the Chinese Government to Chinese textile and apparel products.

How real is the threat of a CVD investigation against apparel made in China? What other countries might be vulnerable? Are you prepared if there is an investigation?
Speaker: Brenda Jacobs, USA-ITA Washington Trade Counsel, SIdley Austin, LLP
Detentions & Seizures: They’re Back!
March 2, 2006
Guest Speakers Brenda Jacobs
Sidley Austin, LLP and John Pellegrini
McGuireWoods, LLP
This seminar will address many of the issues surrounding detentions and seizures that have arisen now that U.S. Customs and Border Protection “production verification teams” have resumed their visits to factories in Hong Kong and Macau. CBP has made clear that it is aiming to get access to more countries where outward processing (multicountry production) is strong and virtually all of the free trade agreements negotiated by the United States also include provisions to allow CBP on site in factories.
available in VHS and on DVD

Duty-Free Programs in the Middle East:
March 23, 2005
Duty-Free Programs in the Middle East: Israel FTA, Jordan FTA, QIZ Programs (Jordan & Egypt)
with guest speaker Arthur Bodek, Grunfeld, desiderio, Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt, LLP
Learn more about the opportunities to eliminate customs duties and avoid safeguard quotas through a creative use of duty-free manufacturing programs. This seminar will review and analyze the legal requirements and strategic opportunities under these programs to help you plan your business. Available in VHS and DVD format.

When Do U.S. Fish Wildlife Service Requirements Impact Imports?
January 21, 2004
Basic Questions and Answers for the Apparel and Textile Importing Community
with guest speaker Barbara Y. Wierbicki, Tompkins & Davidson, LLP
What does the term "wildlife" include?
What is "CITES"? What is "ESA"
What other laws does U.S. FIsh & WIldlife enforce? Where does one check to see if a particular product is subject to it? What documents are necessary for entry and what does one do if the documents are lost and or late?
What are the penalties for non-compliance?

CAFTA: Today's Benefits and Future Duty Free Options
Everything You Need to Know About CAFTA:
Today’s Benefits and Future Duty Free Options
with guest speakers, Julia K. Hughes, Senior Vice President, USA-ITA and Jonathan Fee, Partner, Alston & Bird
Please join us for this interactive seminar that will help importers learn how to maximize the benefits from sourcing textiles and apparel in Central America.
The presentation will highlight new sourcing opportunities in the CAFTA countries as well as review the technical requirements to guarantee that shipments qualify for CAFTA duty-free treatment. Available in VHS and DVD format.

DR CAFTA: The Rules of the Game.
October 25, 2005
with guest speakers: Brenda Jacobs,USA-ITA Washington Trade Counsel,Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP and Roberto Rosenberg,Trade Commissioner, Government of Guatemala
The United States - Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement will finally go into force on January 1, 2006. Do you know the rules under this agreement yet? Unfortunately, they are different from both previous U.S. free trade agreements and from the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act, and some of the rules are still in flux thanks to last minute maneuvering to secure approval of the deal by the U.S. Congress.

Join us for this informative seminar on the rules that will apply to textile and apparel products under DR-CAFTA and a review of the issues that remain to be resolved. available in VHS and on DVD

Duty Savings Through First Sale Sourcing Structures
June 15, 2005
with guest speaker Erik Smithweiss, Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt, LLP

An important method for reducing duty payments is structuring transactions to reduce dutiable value. This seminar will review and analyze the use of first sale structures that allow importers to declare lower customs values without changing existing pricing with vendors and customers.
available in VHS and on DVD