Canada / US Trade Relations Discussion

Key Topics Covered:

• Context and update on CUSMA negotiations
• Navigating cross-Border strategy and alternate market entry options for selling to the US market
• Force majeure and changed circumstances to understand legal protections during supply chain disruptions
• Contracts and agreements with U.S. Customers
• Best practices to minimize risk, protect your business, and strengthen customer relationships

Gain expert insights into the legal and regulatory landscape affecting Canadian manufacturers, understand how to mitigate risks and protect your contracts in uncertain times and explore new strategies for entering the U.S. market beyond traditional pathways. We welcome you to participate in a Q&A session.

About Dan Ujczo:

Dan is Senior Counsel in Thompson Hine LLP’s International Trade and Transportation law practice groups. He provides end-to-end counsel across clients’ Canada-U.S., North American and global supply chains. This trade counsel includes customs classification and compliance, utilization of preferential trade agreements such as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), tariff mitigation and exclusions, procurement issues such as Buy America/Buy American, and anti-dumping/countervailing duty issues. He also advises clients in the negotiating of transportation agreements, managing trusted trader and related security programs, and addressing issues at ports-of-entry. Dan also assists clients, economic development organizations and governments with cross-border investment and expansion projects.

Dan is the Honorary Consul of the Government of Canada to Ohio. Dan’s unique Canada-U.S. experience encompasses serving in the governments of Canada and the United States, private practice and academia. He served as an officer in Canada’s foreign ministry where he worked towards improving North America’s borders and ports-of-entry. For nearly a decade, Dan was a visiting professor of law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and managed a lab that served as a legal adviser to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Dan was appointed by the US Secretary of Commerce to serve as a member of the District Export Council (DEC) for the Northern District of Ohio. Dan also was appointed by the Governor of Ohio as a Life Member of the Association of Ohio Commodores; he is the U.S. Vice President for the North American Strategy for Competitiveness (NASCO); and, a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Canada (AMCHAM Canada). Dan is the President of the Ohio-Canada Business Association (Ohio-Can).