Thank you to all of you who attended our very successful May 1 Korea FTA event at the Reef Hotel!  

May started with a bang and as the weather warms up our roster of May events warms up with it.

On May 10, the FTA is co-hosting a reception with the AAEI right after the first-ever West Coast Customs Symposium being held at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center - Room 202 at 5:00pm. Come network with us!

On May 22 our annual World Trade Week Luncheon will be held at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles.  Peter Friedmann from Washington, D.C. joins us.  You will have a chance to vote for the next President of the United States in our Mock election! Click here to register.

I am very pleased to welcome our new members for the month of April:

David Mastromatteo, General Manager at Beckman Coulter in Villa Park

George Salmas, Attorney with the Salmas Law Group, "The Food Lawyers"

Hope to see you at one of our events this month!

Daniel Benoit

FTA President