CBP Announces National Commodity Specialist Division Webinar Training Schedule

In support of the Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act (TFTEA), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Trade Relations (OTR), has announced the National Commodity Specialist Division (NCSD) will be providing the trade community with forty (40) educational webinars, each focused on a specific commodity and presented by the respective National Import Specialist (NIS).

The first webinar is scheduled for Monday, April 9th (“travel bags”); and the last scheduled for Thursday, July 19th (“tubes and pipes of iron and steel”).

The full commodity specific webinar schedule is available on the CBP website.

Interested parties are asked to please sign up with their company name and/or their individual name. Once signed up for a specific month, the registrant will have access to all webinars held in that month.

Registration options:

For further information on details, CBP advises the trade community to please contact Denise Faingar, at (646) 733-3004, regarding the webinar program: or Fung King Kong, at (646) 733-3051, for technical assistance.

As always, your general questions about the information presented here may be addressed with your Livingston account representative, or by contacting Livingston’s US Regulatory Affairs group: usregaffairs@livingstonintl.com.