Year-End Insights Webinar 2: What’s Changing & What to Watch

Year-End Insights Webinar 2: What’s Changing & What to Watch

Trade Trends & Hot Topics for 2026!

In this webinar Star USA’s Michael D. Easton talks about how to use strategic thinking to navigate today’s challenges. He identifies several of the problems he’s faced this year and describes how he worked around them, and then he shares a step-by-step process for tackling trade issues.

 

Quick Tip: Condensing the problem you’re facing into a simple statement is one of the most important steps in coming up with a workable solution.

Topics Include:
  • Key takeaways and industry resources from Year-End Webinar 1
  • How Michael manages burnout and stress
  • How to identify problem domains
  • Tariff mitigation strategies

Resources

 

The webinar audience mentioned the following resources. Star USA does not vouch for or endorse any third-party or unofficial sources.

  • Pete Mento, DSV on LinkedIn
  • Braumiller Law
  • Expeditors
  • The Daily Bugle newsletter
  • Simply Trade podcast
  • ST&R Two Minutes in Trade podcast
  • Noatum Logistics
  • Flexport
  • Thompson Coburn
  • What’s Going On With Shipping YouTube channel
  • GHY Tariff Tracker
  • Trade Compliance Resource Hub Tariff Tracker
  • r/CustomsBroker on Reddit
  • Customs Brokers on Discord
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