Trade attorney Joseph Brubaker outlined his predictions on the trade war and current strategies companies are undertaking to cope with the tariffs in a presentation at Snowsports Industries America’s webinar Strategies for Surviving the US-China Trade War that include exclusion requests; first sale valuation; operational engineering; free trade zones/bonded facilities; and tariff engineering.

Lobbying has become increasingly popular this year as other solutions have failed. The snowsports industry had success in 2018 with lobbying for exclusions on helmets as a safety item.

The Section 312 shipment strategy has also become popular in the last month, as companies send their Chinese goods to ... Log in to view full article.