International Trade Resources Podcast

Today on the International Trade Resources Podcast, our host Kim Kirkendall is joined by Josh Rodman, who is a Senior Associate Attorney with Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, to discuss the customer risk in Export Compliance as it fits into the interplay between customer, product, and country. NOTE: none of the information here or in the podcast is legal advice and it is provided for informational...

Today on the International Trade Resources Podcast, our host Kim Kirkendall is joined by Elaine Ho and Nicola Licata, managers at Clean Energy Associates. They discuss the ins, outs, and issues with supplier compliance audits. Companies must be compliant with regulations and programs such as ESG, UFLPA (Uyghur Forced Labor Act), CTPAT, and others. The environment of increased regulation is current...

Today on the International Trade Resources Podcast, our host Kim Kirkendall is joined by Francis Kremer. Francis works in China and has been for about six years. He's the sales and marketing director for Juli Automotive, an electric vehicle (EV) motor company. In this podcast he shares insights on managing teams and the differences between selling to domestic and foreign customers in China. W...

Today on the International Trade Resources Podcast, our host Kim Kirkendall is joined by Michel Nouafo to discuss growing international sales organizations.  In this podcast he shares insights on key factors and best practices for building a world class sales organization to can drive sales, increase market share, and increase customer satisfaction. We begin the episode talking about the stages co...

Today on the International Trade Resources Podcast, our host Kim Kirkendall is with Emilio Estevez to discuss trade financing exports. He is currently an account executive with the North American team at Modifi and has experience in a variety of different companies in financial services.  We begin the episode talking about one of the most common ways to finance exports - a Letter of Credit, or L/C...

Welcome back to the International Trade Resources Podcast with your host, Kim Kirkendall. On today’s episode, Kim and Ervis Micukaj discuss business data production across borders. Ervis is the owner of Jet Services in China and provides a variety of data security services to foreign companies with business interests in Asia.  In the discussion today we talk about how many employers and employees...

Today on the International Trade Resources Podcast, our host Kim Kirkendall is with “Tom,” an anonymous guest working in Southeast Asia for a conglomerate of Taiwanese companies. He is anonymous because he is going to give us a behind the scenes look at factories overseas. “Tom” has years of experience living in Asia (he is North American) and working in the trade and supply chain space. This is a...

Today on the International Trade Resources Podcast, our host Kim Kirkendall is with Alan Scott, CEO of Laicon Consulting Services. Alan works with many companies in North America, helping them manage their CE and UKCA certifications, training, documentation review, compliance safety assessments, and other components surrounding CE certifications.  Our topic today is how companies outside of Europe...

On this episode of the International Trade Resources Podcast with your host, Kim Kirkendall, we’re sitting down with Art Dicker. Art is a senior lawyer at R&P China Lawyers, a full-service PRC law firm advising international businesses in China. He’s spent the last 15 years working in China to advise technology, manufacturing, and consumer companies on structuring their investments and managin...

This week we’re talking with Jim Wilson, Functional Lead at Nitor Partners. With over 30 years of experience in banking, international treasury, and accounting with various major companies, he’s here to break down how you can strengthen your cash flow and improve your supply chain. Jim dives into the various ways of arranging international trade payments and the nuances that come with doing busine...

On today’s episode, we talk with Julia Montgomery, who has spent over 10 years in international trade advisory services. She's a trade data specialist and she's currently a board member with NASBITE. Kim and Julia will discuss how to identify new markets and grow exports from the comfort of your desk.  The first topic they discuss focuses on different types of data – what data is helpful...

Thanks for tuning into the International Trade Resources Podcast with your host, Kim Kirkendall. On today’s episode, Kim is talking with Vineetha Jayaram, an accomplished Strategic Global Procurement professional with a successful record of setting supply strategies across international markets. She’s here to share best practices in supplier qualification and audits, especially during supply chain...

Today we sit down with Adrienne Braumiller, founder of Braumiller Law Group PLLC and a dynamic force in the international trade law arena. With more than 30 years of experience, she is widely recognized as a leading authority in Customs, import, export, foreign-trade zones, free trade agreements, and ITAR compliance. She’s here to break down the hot topic of The Uyghur Forced Labor Act (UFLPA) whi...

Today Kim sits down with Kathryn Read, an international sales and marketing consultant with over 25 years of experience in emerging markets, including countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, with extensive experience in China. Kathryn works with SMEs, primarily consumer goods companies moving into international markets. In this episode, we’re picking her brain on distributor agreements–som...

Welcome back to the International Trade Resources podcast with your host, Kim Kirkendall. Our guest today is Steve Ferreira, CEO of Ocean Audit, Inc., a global ocean freight refund consultancy. He works with 20% of the Fortune 100 clients on ocean audits and is a two time USA Today best selling author and TV personality. He’s here today to fill us in on how you could be overspending by thousands a...

Today, Kim Kirkendall talks with Adriana Giraldo, who has more than 15 years of experience in import-export coordination, supply chain export operations, customs, and foreign trade operations. She's worked in various industries, from toys to jewelry and now chemicals. Many times the companies she worked for had products or customers subject to US export controls, which is what she’s here to t...

On today's episode, Kim Kirkendall sits down with Nate Ward, Trade Advisor for the State of Ohio’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Export Assistance Network and Director of the Global Business Center at Monte Ahuja College at Cleveland State University. He’s here today to talk about free or low cost programs, opportunities, and advisory services businesses can take advantage of. Firs...