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[Cindy’s Version] Tolerate It: Is the Administration Redefining Country of Origin?August 14, 2026Tolerate It: How New Trade Rules Could Rewrite Country of Origin Taylor Swift’s “Tolerate It” wasn’t written about supply chains. But according to Cindy Allen on this week’s episode of Simply Trade: Cindy’s Version, the…Read more: [Cindy’s Version] Tolerate It: Is the Administration Redefining Country of Origin?
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AI, Tariffs & the New U.S. Trade Map: What the 2026 Numbers RevealAugust 13, 2026U.S. Trade Data Reveals an Economy Reshaped by AI, Tariffs, and Shifting Supply ChainsThe latest U.S. trade numbers are in, and they tell a story of an economy in transition. In this quarterly trade update,…Read more: AI, Tariffs & the New U.S. Trade Map: What the 2026 Numbers Reveal
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[ICPA] From Corn Dogs to Compliance: The Heart Behind ICPAAugust 12, 2026From Corn Dogs to Compliance: The People Behind ICPA Nobody grows up dreaming of a career in trade compliance. Ask almost anyone how they got there, and you’ll get a detour story in Lynda Thomas’s…Read more: [ICPA] From Corn Dogs to Compliance: The Heart Behind ICPA
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[Cindy’s Version] The Tortured Trade Department: Tariffs, AI & the New Enforcement RealityAugust 7, 2026Trade Compliance Gets Its “Tortured Poets” EraOn this week’s Simply Trade, Cindy Allen borrows from Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department to capture where trade compliance stands. In short, it’s a wave of tariff changes,…Read more: [Cindy’s Version] The Tortured Trade Department: Tariffs, AI & the New Enforcement Reality
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Building Career Pathways with ICPAAugust 6, 2026ICPA’s Global Trade Pathways Conference: A Fresh Start for Trade Compliance Education For years, ICPA’s fall event has gone by a lot of names, the ITAR conference, the fall conference, trade week. This year, it’s…Read more: Building Career Pathways with ICPA
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[Cindy’s Version] Are You Ready for It? – One Full Year of Cindy’s VersionJuly 31, 2026One Year In, Cindy’s Version Asks: Are You “…Ready For It?”A year ago, Cindy’s Version launched with one goal: make trade news make sense, one Taylor Swift song at a time. This week’s anniversary episode…Read more: [Cindy’s Version] Are You Ready for It? – One Full Year of Cindy’s Version
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Tariff Refunds After IEEPA: What’s Next For Importers? with Valerie Sorensen-ClarkJuly 30, 2026Your IEEPA Tariffs Were Ruled Illegal. Now What?The Supreme Court said it plainly in February: IEEPA never authorized these tariffs. That opened the door for importers to recover what they’d paid — but five months…Read more: Tariff Refunds After IEEPA: What’s Next For Importers? with Valerie Sorensen-Clark
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[TIPS] Importer of Record Responsibilities: What importers Must Own NowJuly 28, 2026Who Really Owns Import Compliance? Your broker files the entry. But who owns what’s behind it? That gap is where importers get burned. In this final installment of the Simply Trade Tips series, host Lalo…Read more: [TIPS] Importer of Record Responsibilities: What importers Must Own Now
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[Cindy’s Version] Sad, Beautiful, Tragic: The New World of TariffsJuly 24, 2026Read more: [Cindy’s Version] Sad, Beautiful, Tragic: The New World of Tariffs
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[Pete and Cindy] Enforcement Is Here: CBP Data, AI, and the Future of USMCAJuly 23, 2026Trade Enforcement Just Crossed $1 Billion — Is Your Compliance Program Ready?Customs compliance used to be a back-office job. That’s changing fast. A single number tells the story: $1 billion. That’s what the DOJ Trade…Read more: [Pete and Cindy] Enforcement Is Here: CBP Data, AI, and the Future of USMCA
