Trade Trends & Hot Topics for 2026! What’s coming in 2026? In the second session of our webinar series, we’ll explore the trends and developments on the horizon – from manufacturing shifts and global sourcing strategies to updates in free…
Year-End Insights Webinar 1: What We Learned in 2025
Year-End Insights Webinar 1: What We Learned in 2025
October 15, 2025/
Key Changes, Shifts & Surprises in Trade This Year!
How have you survived 2025 and how do you plan to weather 2026? In this webinar Star USA’s president, Michael D. Easton, was joined by Lee Mersek, president of Global Resilience Advisory, and Chris Lundy, the head of customs brokerage and import trade compliance at Röhlig USA, to talk about what they saw happening in 2025, what they anticipate in 2026, and how you can get through it.
Quick Tip: It’s more important now than ever before to be as knowledgeable and current as you possibly can. Find solid, reliable sources to help you stay up to date, and don’t rely on ChatGPT for accurate information!
Topics Include:
- Michael’s must-haves for 2026
- What intelligence really is & its role in international business
- Lee’s only geopolitical certainty for 2026
- 3 indicators for where 2026 is headed
- A quick overview of the current tariffs & the concept of tariff stacking
- Chris’ advice on the best thing to tell your clients
- How you can help your (very exhausted) customs broker
Resources
- Star USA Year-End Insights Webinar 1 - What We Learned in 2025 Slides
- Lee Mersek - Global Resilience Advisory Slides
- Chris Lundy - Rohlig USA Slides
The following resources were shared in the chat by members of the audience:
- Pete Mento from DSV. follow him on Linkedin
- Braumiller Law is nice to follow.
- Expeditors have a great compliance team, they help educate during this unusually hard time.
- The Daily Bugle is a pretty good newsletter
- I do enjoy the simply trade podcast as well.
- ST&R Two Minutes in Trade is a good podcast to follow to get quick updates.
- Noatum logistics, Flexport, Thompson Coburn are some of my favs
- What's Going on with Shipping is a good YouTube channel for major things happening with ocean shipping.
- https://www.ghy.com/tariff-tracker/
- https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/2025/10/10/trump-2-0-tariff-tracker/
- The r/CustomsBroker on reddit has been good to monitor for moral support and as a sounding board.
- Customs Brokers on Discord
1 LCB/CCS/CES CE credit available until September 15, 2026.
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