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Headquartered in the Washington DC metro area, the NCBFAA represents more than 1500 member companies with 110,000 employees in international trade - the nation's leading freight forwarders, customs brokers, ocean transportation intermediaries (OTIs), NVOCCs and air cargo agents, serving more than 250,000 importers and exporters. The Association’s members handle more than 97% of the entries for goods imported into the United States and are directly involved with the logistics of these goods. Further, members operating as OTIs are involved with approximately 80 to 85% of all exports from the United States. 

 

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As the national voice of the logistics industry since 1897, NCBFAA enables its more than 1,400 member companies with 110,000 employees to be heard in the halls of Congress and the offices of requlators.

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NCBFAA Webinar: "State of AI in 2026: What Changed and What it Means for Customs Brokers"

State of AI in 2026: What Changed and What it Means for Customs Brokers

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Tuesday, November 10 at 12 PM ET

For more information, please contact Rebecca Lazeration at webinars@ncbfaa.org

Continuing Education : 

Continuing education credits for this webinar are currently pending approval. We appreciate your patience as we finalize this process.


AI has changed more in the past year than in the several years before it. Models now reason through multi-step problems, and AI agents can carry out tasks such as reading email, preparing documents, and searching files, rather than only answering questions. This session explains what changed, how AI agents work, and what it means for licensed customs brokers.

Attendees will learn practical, low-risk ways to start using general-purpose tools like ChatGPT and Claude, and where those tools fall short on compliance work such as classification and tariff stacking. The session also covers how to keep broker review and accountability at the center of AI-assisted workflows, a set of questions for evaluating any AI tool, and a step-by-step approach to piloting and rolling out AI in a brokerage.

Presenter

Haider Shawl is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sefer, which builds AI for customs brokers to automate entry preparation and PGA filings. He grew up around his family's export business, which first exposed him to the paperwork and compliance challenges of international trade.

Ashvat Ranadive is the CTO and Co-Founder of Sefer. He was previously a data engineer at eBay and studied computer science at the University of Toronto.

Continuing Education

Continuing education credits for this webinar are currently pending approval. We appreciate your patience as we finalize this process.

Continuing education credits for this webinar are currently pending approval. We appreciate your patience as we finalize this process Continuing education credits for this webinar are currently pending approval. We appreciate your patience as we finalize this process                

 

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NCBFAA Webinar: "State of AI in 2026: What Changed and What it Means for Customs Brokers"

State of AI in 2026: What Changed and What it Means for Customs Brokers

Register here 
Tuesday, November 10 at 12 PM ET

For more information, please contact Rebecca Lazeration at webinars@ncbfaa.org

Continuing Education : 

Continuing education credits for this webinar are currently pending approval. We appreciate your patience as we finalize this process.


AI has changed more in the past year than in the several years before it. Models now reason through multi-step problems, and AI agents can carry out tasks such as reading email, preparing documents, and searching files, rather than only answering questions. This session explains what changed, how AI agents work, and what it means for licensed customs brokers.

Attendees will learn practical, low-risk ways to start using general-purpose tools like ChatGPT and Claude, and where those tools fall short on compliance work such as classification and tariff stacking. The session also covers how to keep broker review and accountability at the center of AI-assisted workflows, a set of questions for evaluating any AI tool, and a step-by-step approach to piloting and rolling out AI in a brokerage.

Presenter

Haider Shawl is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sefer, which builds AI for customs brokers to automate entry preparation and PGA filings. He grew up around his family's export business, which first exposed him to the paperwork and compliance challenges of international trade.

Ashvat Ranadive is the CTO and Co-Founder of Sefer. He was previously a data engineer at eBay and studied computer science at the University of Toronto.

Continuing Education

Continuing education credits for this webinar are currently pending approval. We appreciate your patience as we finalize this process.

Continuing education credits for this webinar are currently pending approval. We appreciate your patience as we finalize this process Continuing education credits for this webinar are currently pending approval. We appreciate your patience as we finalize this process                

 

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