Audience:
Open industry. All apparel and footwear industry professionals, regardless of AAFA membership, are encouraged to participate.
Description:
The fashion and apparel industry is coming off a year marked by global trade disruptions, increased regulatory pressures, and a strategic pivot in sourcing and manufacturing. Looking to 2025, brands and retailers face pressing questions about what’s coming down the pipeline and how to prepare for upcoming challenges.
Does moving manufacturing closer to end markets eliminate risks? Will shifting toward synthetic materials offset regulatory scrutiny? According to Ana Hinojosa, Oritain Advisor and Former CBP Executive Director, even a small percentage of forced labor-tainted cotton fibers in a garment can expose companies to bigger risks.
Attendees of this webinar will learn:
- About proposed tariffs, movements in manufacturing hubs, and industry impacts.
- Why sourcing diversification doesn’t eliminate compliance risks.
- How to proactively detect disruptions through increased visibility.
Speaker:
Ana Hinojosa
Former CBP Executive & Oritain Advisor
Oritain
Ana joined Oritain as an Advisor in June 2022. Prior to joining Oritain she was the Executive Director at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection where she was responsible for directing CBP’s trade threat assessment units, special investigations and enforcement programs focused on detecting, deterring and disrupting illicit trade, with a special emphasis on forced labor violations, evasion of special tariff cases and modernizing the use of civil penalties to ensure appropriate consequence delivery for non-compliance.
She has had an illustrious career with over 34 years of experience in law enforcement, international trade, international policy development and standard setting both with U.S. federal government and with the World Customs Organization (WCO) in Brussels Belgium.
Moderator:
Beth Hughes
Vice President, Trade and Customs Policy
AAFA
Beth Hughes is responsible for supporting the association's efforts on international trade and customs issues. Beth oversees AAFA’s Trade Policy Committee, as well as AAFA’s Customs Group. Before joining AAFA, Beth served for six years as senior director, international affairs at the International Dairy Foods Association. Beth earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science at George Washington University and received a Master of Arts in international affairs from Florida State University.
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