The World Customs Organisation (WCO) is the author of numerous trade instruments that have impacted on the removal of international trade barriers. The ICC publishes new Incoterms every 10 years relating all changes that have impacted on International Trade Terms.

This conference will focus on efforts by WCO members to roll-out SAFE (AEO Programmes) initiatives in compliance to both the new SAFE Framework of Standards and the Revised Kyoto Convention,  particularly the implementation of advance data reporting on inbound shipments (WCO Data Model). It will consider whether these programmes are in line with the twin goals of security and facilitation, or driven by other national interests.

It will go on to address the impact and empirical analysis of the recent developments which are likely to, and already have had, a significant effect on international trade. It will examine the goals, strategic alignment of risks and business practices that should be adopted by Southern African enterprises to secure our current position and increase our future role and participation in the Global Supply Chain.

Why attend the conference?

SAFE/AEO and numerous other supply chain compliance developments will carry significant financial benefit as well as continue to breathe life into the Global Supply Chain which is the lifeblood of many South African businesses.

• Incoterms is broadly tutored, but never before has the author of Incoterms, Professor Jan Ramberg, presented in South Africa to address these dynamic changes.
• Broaden your knowledge of bilateral and multilateral efforts to achieve the goal of a “Single Window”, and consider the likely effects on your supply chain.
• Examine real-world data on existing secure trade patterns and recent changes and the likely future impact of national initiatives under the auspices of the WCO SAFE Framework and other legislation and supply chain developments.
• A rapid acceleration and introduction of Global Supply Chain compliances could leave South African business at a significant disadvantage.
• The most dynamic and fundamental changes to impact the Global Supply Chain are exposed, examined and debated.
• Expand your understanding, at senior management level, of advance data reporting initiatives and what they have in common, how they differ, and what they mean for your business.
• Learn about the WCO Data Model, its benefits for traders, and whether it could lead to a binding international regime for shipment-based cross-border regulatory filing.
• Hear what governments are doing to advance government-to-government exchange of data, capacity building, and explore the changing role in these processes.
• Benchmark best practices with top private sector role-players who have already implemented global programmes to meet the new requirements.

Key Topics to be addressed

• The AEO (Authorised Economic Operator) and CTPAT Security programmes and their impact on international trade facilitation and securitisation
• The proposed new South African Customs Act and Customs modernisation
• 2010 Incoterms and new trading term impacts, changes for the next decade
• Trade liberalisation and reduced tariff and non-tariff barriers
• New Trade Rules and structures are emerging, including Facilitation and Security
• Proliferation of regional trade agreements and free trade zones
• “Customs-to-Customs”: Mutual recognition and the Global Customs co-operation network
• “Customs-to-Business”: The impact of Accreditation and Security on your business
• Growing concerns regarding Public Health and the Environment (“Green Customs”)
• Security threats recognise no national boundaries and the impact of moving borders
• New logistics and Supply Chain modules and growing trade volumes
• The role of the WCO and Customs in International Trade,  expansion of the role of Customs and impact to the Supply Chain, risk profiling and trade automation
• Transfer Pricing
• Countervailing Duties and Subsidies
• Alternate international and national security compliance legislation, ISPS Code/Civil Aviation/10+2 Advance Manifest and new ISO Standards

Who should attend?

• Executives and senior managers
• Procurement executives
• Importers, exporters and global economic operators
• Freight forwarding and clearing agents
• Representatives from International organisations
• Legal advisors and consultants
• International trade specialists
• Business and tax advisors
• Senior custom executives
• Port and transport operators
• Commercial negotiators
• Supply chain managers
• Economists
• Technology suppliers
• Academics
• Researchers
• Risk and insurance managers
• Marine insurance brokers

The Fee (VAT Inclusive)  
One delegate – R3990.00
Two or more delegates – R3591.00 per delegate

Professor Jan Ramberg (LLB, Uppsala, Sweden 1955; LL.D., Stockholm, Sweden, 1970)
Prof Ramberg is a Swedish lawyer and Professor Emeritus specialising in commercial law, and a national and international arbitration court judge. He is also a member of the International Arbitration Court of London. Professor Ramberg is the Author of the ICC INCOTERMS Publication and is considered as the foremost expert in International Trade Terms.

Prof Ramberg graduated in 1955 from Uppsala University, and obtained his LLD from Stockholm University in 1970. From 1970 to 1997 he worked as a civil law professor, and from 1994 to 1996, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Law. Ramberg has also been a practicing lawyer and partner in the law office of Johan Ramberg in Gothenburg and has served on the Boards of several corporations, including Svenska Handelsbanken. From 1980 to 1985, he was the Chairman and Director of Transecure SA Luxemburg. As Vice President of the International Chamber of Commerce's Commission on International Commercial Practice and Chairman of the work group which, in 1980, 1990 and 2000, prepared Incoterm document revisions, he has been involved in international trade law and practices development for more than three decades. Ramberg is the author of many academic books and articles on contract law, maritime law, transport law and Incoterms, published in English, German and Swedish.

Advocate Tinus Barnard (B Iuris LLB; Higher Diploma in Arbitration)
Advocate Barnard currently practices out of George, in the Southern Cape, South Africa where he is an Associate Member of the Pretoria Bar and a Member of the South Cape Society of Advocates.

In 2002 Barnard was admitted an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa with right of representation in the High Court, Appellate Court and Constitutional Court.  Advocate Barnard has also completed his Higher Diploma in Arbitration with Professor Butler and is currently completing his Master of Commerce (MCom) in Shipping Economics with the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.

Advocate Barry Hitchens (BA LLB (Cum Laude); LLM (Taxation); PGDip (Maritime law))
Advocate Barry Hitchens currently holds a permanent lectureship at the Unit for Maritime Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, lecturing on the  Master of Commerce programme in Maritime Studies and the Postgraduate Diploma programme in Maritime Studies.  He holds other lecturing posts at other leading institutions, including the UNISA LLB programme at Varsity College at both the Durban North and Westville campuses, where he lectures on Tax Law; International Law; Fundamental Rights and Evidence, as well Fundamental Rights and Labour Law.

Between 2006 and 2008, Hitchens served as an external moderator for the University of Stellenbosch and also served as an independent evaluator for the Council on Higher Education.

Advocate Hitchens is currently pursuing a PhD, an Advanced Diploma in Taxation through the CIOT, and membership as a UK Chartered Tax Advisor.   He is currently conducting research in the areas of Maritime Security, Limitation of Liability and Cross Border Taxation.   He is a current member of the South African Maritime Lawyers Association.

Mark Goodger (LLM (Maritime Studies))
Mark Goodger is a Senior Advisor to the International Trusted Trade Alliance where he provides policy advice, consultancy and training on matters pertaining to all aspects of International Trade and Trade Law related to the South African Customs Union (SACU) and serves as the CEO of GMLS. 

Mark is highly qualified, having achieved comprehensive study accomplishments including the    Customs & Excise Public Service Training Award Programme; the National Diploma in Shipping and Forwarding Administrations; the FIATA International Freight Forwarders Diploma in World Competence (Montreal, Canada); the University of South Africa Diploma in Transport & Logistics and Freight Management Administration and various IATA and Dangerous Goods programmes.  He has achieved the MAP Certificate at the Graduate School of Business of the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg and holds a Masters Degree (LLM) in Maritime Law Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. 

Mark Goodger will complete his PhD from Canberra University with his thesis “Customs Modernisation and the Impact to African Business communities” and has recently been invited to lecture on Customs and Excise in the LLM programme at the University of Cape Town.

Ronnie van Rooyen (MPhil, LLM (Maritime law))
Ronnie van Rooyen received a full scholarship for his MPhil degree at the University of Stellenbosch in 2002.  In 2006, Ronnie was a top ten graduate in the LLM(Maritime Law) degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and in 2007 was accepted for a PhD at the University of Canberra, researching matters related to Customs and Excise.  In 2007 he was also awarded the Deloitte National Tax Directors Award for winning business as well as the Deloitte Excellence Award for being the top KwaZulu-Natal employee.

Martijn Boelen (LLM (Tax Law) Leiden University Law School (Specialisation in Indirect Taxation, i.e. Customs and VAT)) 
Martijn Boelen has an extensive academic record, with additional courses on Policy Making in and the legislation of Aruba, Netherlands Antilles and Suriname and Fiscal Economics as well as an MBA from the Maastricht School of Management, where his thesis topic was “Organisational and managerial influence on the effectiveness of Self Managing Teams: a theoretical and empirical assessment.” Currently completing a Master of Management in Public and Development Management (MMP&DM) at the University of the Witwatersrand, where his thesis subject is “Increased sustainability of capacity development projects”, Martijn also consulted to SARS in the Customs Modernisation Consultancy and Implementation.

Leon Marais (University of South Africa (UNISA), PRETORIA, South Africa, 1996 – 1997)
Independent Customs Consultant Leon Marais has had a long standing relationship with Jacobsens and LexisNexis.   Author to the Jacobsens Customs Tariff Guide to Classification in 1997, Leon’s involvement with LexisNexis has since seen him branch out as a customs consultant. Marais provides valuable feedback and helps ensure that the content of the Jacobsens series is kept up-to-date and of relevance.  Leon also authors a weekly e-mail bulletin, the Jacobsens Customs News Bulletin, for LexisNexis, his comments and opinions on various matters relating to customs have proved to be of great value and interest to many.  He has also acted in the capacity of Deputy Director for SARS Customs and Excise Division dealing with international trade bodies and specifically the World Customs Organisation. 

Bryce Blegen (USA international Security and Trade Consultant)
Bryce Blegen is CEO of Trusted Trade Alliance LLC, responsible for managing the organization’s global activities from its headquarters in Vancouver, Washington, USA. He is also Regional Manager, Americas, for the Centre for Customs & Excise Studies at the University of Canberra. Previously, he was President of MIC Customs Solutions, a provider of global customs and trade software solutions. At Delphi Corporation, Bryce served as Global Customs Counsel and Regional Director of Customs, Europe for four years starting in early 2001. Before joining Delphi, Bryce spent 10 years at Robert Bosch, as Senior Counsel in the company’s corporate legal department at Bosch’s headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, and prior to that as Manager, International Trade and Assistant General Counsel for Bosch’s North American operations.

As one of the few US attorneys specializing in global customs compliance and trade issues, Bryce has been active in spearheading customs simplification and trade facilitation initiatives in the US, Mexico, Europe and China, working closely with trade associations and government officials. He has been a member of the Legal and Transition/Software Committees of US Customs and Border Protection’s Trade Support Network since 2004, and served as co-chair of the 2008 World Customs Forum at the World Customs Organization in Brussels. He is a frequent speaker on customs and trade topics in the US and Europe.  Bryce received a Juris Doctor and a Master of Arts in International Studies from the University of Denver in 1989. He was admitted as an attorney in Illinois in 1990.

Professor Charl Hugo (BA (Law) University of Pretoria 1978; LLB University of Pretoria 1980 (with distinctions for, inter alia, his dissertation); LLM University of South Africa 1988 (with a distinction for his dissertation); LLD University of Stellenbosch 1996. (Thesis on Documentary Credits: Supervisors Prof Andreas van Wyk and David Butler))
Professor Hugo was admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 1985. He passed the Bar examination in August 2005 and was admitted as an Advocate the same year. He has delivered numerous University lectures in the field of International Trade Financial instruments and is considered an expert on the UCP 500 and now the new UCP600.

Mr. Langa Dlamini (BProc LLB (Natal) MCom (Maritime Studies) (UKZN))  
Langa Dlamini is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and currently a director of Garlicke & Bousfield Inc – Department of Shipping & International Trade.  He is an associate lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Faculty of Management Studies as well as the secretary of the executive committee of the Durban Chapter of the Maritime Lawyers Association of South Africa.

The Essential WCO E-Learning Course

Prepare for the Global Supply Chain Compliance Conference by participating in an e-learning course from your PC.

This Essential WCO E-Learning Course will enhance your knowledge of the new WCO SAFE Framework of Standards & AEO concepts.

• Understand the general principles, the structure and the benefits of the WCO SAFE Framework of Standards.
• Presentation of the Authorized Economic Operator concepts.
  

Objectives and Principles of the SAFE Framework 

Establish standards that provide supply chain security and facilitation at a global level to promote certainty and predictability; enable integrated supply chain management for all modes of transport; enhance the role and function of Customs to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century; strengthen co-operation between Customs administrations to detect high-risk consignments and promote the seamless movement of goods through secure trade supply chains and Customs to Business partnerships.

• Understand the principles and the structure of the Framework of Standards;
• Understand the objectives and benefits of SAFE;
• Understand the concept of Agreed Economic Operator.
  

Take advantage of the special WCO offer to conference delegates
Price:  R 999.00 incl VAT. (Price includes 3 hours of E-Learning material.)

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Simply tick the appropriate box on the order form to book your place. If you have any queries or require further information contact us on 044 691 1307 or email us on info@gmls.co.za.

Dates and venues 
25 March 2010 - Johannesburg, Emperors Palace (011-928 1000)

The Fee (VAT Inclusive)  
One delegate – R3990.00
Two or more delegates – R3591.00 per delegate

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