Gould, Tom

Mr. Gould is Senior Director, Customs and International Trade, for Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A. He is based in Los Angeles, where he has been involved with the international trade community since 1989, and is affiliated with ST&R’s San Francisco office. Mr. Gould joined ST&R after running his own customs consulting business in the Los Angeles area for more than a decade. A licensed customs broker and certified customs specialist, he regularly advises clients on customs and international trade compliance matters, classification, origin determination, qualification for free trade agreements and special duty reduction programs. With the recent implementation of multiple new tariff actions increasing company duty liability, Mr. Gould is regularly called upon to advise on strategies to avoid or minimize duty liability. These strategies include tariff engineering, partial country of origin shifting, value adjustment, the use of de minimis provisions and other methods for legally reducing the impact of new and old tariffs. Mr. Gould is an authority on international trade transactional data analysis using ACE and other sources of import and export data. Mr. Gould is regularly called upon to advise the government and trade on the use of emerging technology, including blockchain, in trade compliance and transportation. Mr. Gould serves in the executive committee of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Trade Support Network. He also serves on the Board of the American Association of Exporters and Importers and the Foreign Trade Association and is a member of the Los Angeles Customs Brokers & Freight Forwarders Association and the International Compliance Professionals Association. Mr. Gould is a sought-after speaker on international trade matters and is an instructor at California State University at Long Beach’s Center for International Trade and Transportation for the global logistics specialist professional designation.