James Mulvehill

James has more than 12 years in the trade and customs field. James has gained extensive experience assisting a broad range of clients with customs compliance and opportunity, as well as export controls compliance and management.

James’ import experience includes work with clients in the chemical, textile and apparel, consumer goods, technology, automotive, and electronics sectors.

James has significant experience with a variety of inbound trade issues, including valuation, classification, origin/marking, recordkeeping, and other customs regulatory issues and customs opportunity, including first sale, foreign trade zones, free trade agreements, duty drawback and other special trade programs.  In this capacity, James regularly interacts with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on behalf of clients, in the context of focused assessments, CF28 information requests, rulings, protests, reconciliation and post-entry amendment processes. James also has experience working with clients on large global structuring projects and value chain management.

James has worked with a variety of different companies, including clients in the A&D, chemical, medical devices, electronics, and food and beverage sectors on key export control engagements.

James’ experience includes general export control consulting, assisting with day to day export control operational matters and training responsible personnel, and auditing/testing a company’s policies and procedures in the context of compliance reviews or in response to government consent agreements. This includes extensive experience with all (policy and operational) aspects of commercial, dual-use and defense export controls, including commodity jurisdiction, classification, transaction screening (end-use proliferation concerns, denied party, red flags), sanctions, licensing and exceptions/exemptions.

In recent years James has been a key team member and site manager on several global consent agreement reviews in the A&D space.

James holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bucknell University, Juris Doctor from the University of San Francisco, and is a Licensed Customs Broker.