Learning Objectives:

• FDA’s new cost-saving import programs
• Understand how U.S. Customs and FDA legal requirements intersect
• Know how to manage foreign suppliers
• Understand FDA’s internal procedures
• Learn how to mitigate and resolve import detentions
• Learn how to avoid common problems
• Develop practical ways to improve your import and export business
• You will be able to answer the following questions with this course without saying, “I don’t know?”
• What are the FDA’s import legal requirements and policy?
• How do you deal with the FDA and the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol procedures?
• What happens when your product is detained?
• What happens if a foreign manufacturer is in trouble with the FDA?
• How do you inter-act with the FDA to work out problems?
• Why are import and export rules different or does it even matter?