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Responding to Tariff Challenges: A Business Adaptation Workshop (Virtual)

Thursday, February 20 at 2:00 pm to Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 3:30 am

Learn how tariffs work, how to accurately measure the impact of changing tariffs, and how to prepare for and minimize their effects.

The Invest Ottawa Education team is organizing a (timely!) webinar on tariffs, where they will explore the critical role they play in global trade and their impact on businesses. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to the topic, you’ll gain valuable insights into the following:

  • Tariffs: how do they work, who pays them
  • The legal aspects: World Trade Organization, World Customs Organization, CUSMA/USMCA
  • How to accurately measure their impact
  • How to prepare for them and minimize their impact
  • Retaliatory tariffs: how do they work
  • Recourses available at the international level

Join us as they demystify tariffs and empower you to make informed decisions in a dynamic trade environment!

About the speaker:

Following a + 30-year international logistics career, Christian Sivière started a Montréal-based import-export consultancy in 2010, Solimpex, active in two areas:

  • consulting to help SMEs grow internationally; and
  • training on the regulatory, customs and logistics aspects of Importing and Exporting, Free Trade Agreements and Supply Chain Optimization.

Christian is a subject-matter expert and lectures for the Canadian International Freight Forwarders Association in Toronto, gives seminars and webinars for various trade organizations like the Montreal Chamber of Commerce, Export Québec, Invest Ottawa, Supply Chain Canada and similar, and personalized training for importers and exporters. He publishes articles in Inside Logistics and Supply Professional.

*Please note that you will receive an email with the link to join this webinar upon registering and before the session. If you do not receive it, please check your junk mailbox.