Start Date: 3/31/2021 6:00 PM EDT
End Date: 3/31/2021 7:00 PM EDT
Venue Name: Virtual
Organization Name:
WIIT
Contact:
USMCA Implementation and Enforcement with U.S. CBP’s USMCA Center
Join GATT DC (LGBT Professionals in International Trade) and WIIT (Association of Women in International Trade) for a discussion concerning the implementation and enforcement of the United States-Canada-Mexico Agreement (“USMCA”) by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”).
We will hear about CBP’s efforts to ensure a comprehensive, consistent, and transparent implementation of this important trade agreement, including the launching of a focused USMCA Center. CBP’s USMCA Center Director Queena Fan and Branch Chief Adam M. Sulewski will join us to discuss the practical dimensions of CBP’s implementation of the USMCA, how enforcement of the agreement is developing, and priorities for enforcement and future informational rollouts.
Featuring:
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Queena Fan, Director of the USMCA Center, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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Adam M. Sulewski, Branch Chief, USMCA Center, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Biographies:
Queena Fan is the Director of the USCMA Center, Office of Trade, at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Washington, DC. She is responsible for leading CBP’s implementation of the USMCA with the primary goals of outreach, training, and guidance to provide consistency and transparency to the trade community. Prior to this position, Ms. Fan served in a number of leadership and specialized roles in CBP, covering areas such as: intellectual property rights, trade communications, and free trade agreements. Outside of CBP, she has supported the Senate Finance Committee as a Policy Advisor covering customs-related issues; worked on steel and raw materials trade policies at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; honed her skills on the Harmonized Tariff Schedule and antidumping and countervailing duties at the U.S. International Trade Commission; and assisted the Department of Commerce’s U.S. Commercial Service Export Assistance Center in Irvine, CA.
Queena holds a Master of Arts in International Trade and Investment Policy from George Washington University, a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine, and resides in the DC metro area with her husband and shiba inu.
Adam M. Sulewski serves as Branch Chief for U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) U.S. – Mexico – Canada Agreement (USMCA) Center, with the mission to coordinate CBP’s comprehensive, consistent, and transparent implementation and enforcement of the USMCA.
Mr. Sulewski began service with U.S. Customs and Border Protection in 2010, and has served in several trade-focused roles, including trade agreements and special trade legislation, antidumping and counterveiling duties, international engagement, congressional affairs, personnel training, and trade stakeholder engagement. He is a Presidential Management Fellowship alumni, and has been recognized with the CBP Commissioner’s Award, the World Customs Organization Certificate of Merit, and the State Department’s Superior Honor Award. Mr. Sulewski earned his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, and is licensed to practice law in New York and Massachusetts. Mr. Sulewski also serves as vice president and publicity chair for D.C.’s Drummers, a 501(c)(3) non-profit LGBT community band in the National Capital Region.
