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 Regulatory Database
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About ITCI
Export Start-Up Kit
Trade Information Database
Regulatory FAQs
Regulatory Database
Q&As for Export Counselors
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Book - Roadmap To Export Success

 







About ITCI

 


The International Trade Compliance Institute (ITCI) was established in 2008 by the El Camino College Center for International Trade Development (CITD) in Torrance, California, with start-up grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education. The extensive ITCI website was initially developed by then CITD Director Maurice Kogon, CITD Deputy Director Bronwen Madden, and three CITD Interns -- Marika Verdy, Grace Warrick, and Cristina Nicoaro. The ITCI Website is now maintained solely by Maurice Kogon, who retired as CITD Director in 2012.


The extensive ITCI website has four major components:


Regulatory Database includes hundreds of compliance-related Terms/Acronyms; Laws/Acts/Regulations; Treaties/Agreements/Conventions; Documents; and Organizations/Agencies.


Regulatory FAQ Database includes thousands of authoritative FAQs covering all aspects of U.S. export and import controls, foreign import controls, and international/multilateral trade controls under various treaties and conventions.


Trade Information Database (TID) — an extensive one-stop source of trade information drawn from many different U.S. Government, international, and non-governmental Websites. The TID is organized in 12 broad categories and 74 subcategories, with nearly 1,000 direct links to export/import guides; trade reference tools; product-and country-specific statistics and market research; trade directories, trade opportunities; tariff and non-tariff trade barriers; trade promotion programs; guides to trade finance, documentation, and transportation; and sources of trade assistance.


Export Start-up Kit includes links to free resources and tools developed by Maurice Kogon to help educate start-up exporters in particular on the basics of exporting, assess their likely export potential and readiness, point them directly to Web resources that can help them at each stage of the export process, and answer questions that typically arise in their evolution as exporters.


About Maurice Kogon


Maurice Kogon, President of Kogon Trade Consulting and ITCIs website manager, has over 53 years of experience in the international business field as a U.S. Government official, business executive, educator and consultant. He has written, lectured and trained extensively on international trade and has developed numerous Web-based export tools now used throughout the world, including the Trade Information Database and his Exporting Basics guide, Export Readiness Assessment diagnostic, Export FAQs, and Export Internet Search Wizard.  He has taught international business courses at Cal State University Northridge, George Washington University, and Virginia Tech. Maurice has consulted for U.S. and international clients, including the Egyptian Government and the UN’s International Trade Centre in Geneva. He holds a BA and MA in Foreign Affairs from George Washington University.


Maurice’s U.S. Government career spanned over 33 years (1961-94) with the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, where he held management positions in trade assistance and promotion, trade policy, and strategic planning and program evaluation. As director of Commerce’s market research and trade information office in the early 1990s, he oversaw many of the export assistance services offered at U.S. Export Assistance Centers nationwide. In 1978, Maurice was selected to develop and manage the Worldwide Information & Trade System (WITS), the Commerce Department’s first real-time trade information system. Maurice retired from Commerce in 1994 to form his own company, Export Services, Inc. (ESI). As ESI President, he developed the National Export Offer Service (NEOS), an early on-line directory of U.S exporters and export products.


Maurice served from 2001 to 2012 as Director of the El Camino College Center for International Trade Development (CITD) in Torrance, California.  After retiring from the CITD in 2012, he founded Kogon Trade Consulting, was appointed to the District Export Council of Southern California, guest-lectures at local universities, maintains the ITCI website, and donates time to counsel and train new exporters. Maurice is a past President of NASBITE (2008-09), served for many years as a NASBITE Board member, and helped to develop NASBITE’s Certified Global Business Professional (CGBP) credential and exam. He was honored in 2013 as the recipient of NASBITE’s John Otis Lifetime Achievement Award.





























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