Whether you're facing shifting regulations, rising duties, or audit pressure, Maersk has developed a service that creates an immediate trade risk profile and brings clarity to your trade operations.
The webinar will present a look at trade in 2026 and introduce the Maersk Trade and Tariff Studio – an AI-powered, expert-led service that enables you to manage trade data, identify compliance risks, allowing you to take steps to reduce the enforcement impact on your company. Please register with your work email.
Key Issues Facing Importers:
- Lack of Supply-chain transparency
- Illegal transshipment risks
- Supply chain disruptions
- Adverse financial impact
Speakers:
Desiree Dobao:
Desiree Montalvo-Dobao, LCB /CCS, Head of CHB Commercial at Maersk, brings over 34 years of experience in the logistics industry and has been a Licensed Customs Broker since 2000. For the past 27 years, she has held a variety of leadership and operational roles at Maersk, including Head of CHB Commercial, Director of CHB Development, Assistant Branch Manager, and Import Specialist/Entry Writer.
Her expertise spans a diverse range of products—from perishables to apparel, furniture, medical supplies, and toys—and includes extensive work with partner government agencies such as FDA, USDA, FWS, TSCA, EPA, and CPSC. This deep regulatory knowledge ensures compliance and efficiency across complex supply chains.
Originally from Miami, Florida, Desiree relocated to the Carolinas 12 years ago. Outside of her professional life, she enjoys family time and is a proud mom to a teenage son.
Janet L. Labuda:
Janet L. Labuda is the Head of Customs and Trade Issues at Maersk Customs Services, a premier logistics and Customs House Broker. She is actively engaged in assisting clients with forced labor challenges and has worked with Altana AI to perfect a solutions-based approach to forced labor identification in supply chains.
Janet retired in 2011 after completing a thirty-one year career with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Prior to her retirement, she was the Director, Textile/Apparel Policy and Programs Division at the Headquarters Office of International Trade in Washington,D.C. As the Director, she led the development and implementation of national policy decisions regarding the importation of textile products into the United States. She was responsible for ensuring the enforcement of laws affecting a $100 billion textile importindustry comprising close to 70,000 importers. Previously, she worked on various trade enforcement and compliance programs including supply chain security, anti-dumping countervailing duty, Intellectual Property Rights protection, and trade preference program compliance.
As the Director, she worked closely with the trade community often speaking at various venues. She ensured close partnerships with the Department of Commerce, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the State Department on matters of textile trade compliance. She was the agency spokesperson on these issues to the Congress, the press and foreign governments. In addition, she spearheaded various training initiatives for CBP personnel, the domestic and international trade communities, and foreign government representatives. She has done extensive travel in Africa promoting compliance with the African Growth and Opportunity Act.
She has traveled extensively and has skills in international negotiation. She represented Customs in negotiations of the Morocco, Singapore, Australia Free Trade Agreements and up to her retirement worked on Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations.She has also advised various governments as well as the U.S. importing community on the establishment of trade compliance standards.
She has her Master’s degree from New York University, a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn, New York and is a John F. Kennedy School of Government Senior Executive Fellow.
Julia K. Hughes:
Julia K. Hughes is President of the United States Fashion Industry Association (USFIA), which represents brands, retailers, importers, and wholesalers based in the United States and doing business globally. She represents the industry in front of the U.S. government as well as international governments and stakeholders, explaining how fashion companies create high quality jobs in the United States and economic opportunities around the world.
An expert on textile and apparel trade issues, Julie has testified before Congress and the Executive Branch. She frequently speaks at international conferences including the China & Asia Textile Forum, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), Harvard University’s Bangladesh Development Conference, MAGIC, Prime Source Forum, Vietnam Textile Summit, and others.
Julie served as the first President and is one of the founders of the Washington Chapter of Women in International Trade (WIIT) and is one of the founders of the WIIT Charitable Trust. She also was the first President of the Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT). In 1992, she received the Outstanding Woman in International Trade award and in 2008, the WIIT Lifetime Achievement Award. She also is a member of the International Women’s Forum.
She has an M.A. in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
Ryan Hanley:
Ryan Hanley is a Growth Performance Strategy and Process Manager at Maersk Customs Services, where he has spent the past eight years working at the intersection of customs and trade compliance, regulatory enforcement, and supply chain management. He currently partners with some of the world’s largest apparel and consumer brands to help them shift from reactivecompliance to proactive, data-driven risk management.
At Maersk, Ryan has helped lead the development and deployment of purchase-order–level screening programs that provide compliance and sourcing teams with earlier, clearer visibility into supplier and manufacturing risk—well before goods ever ship. From the outset, he has also been deeply involved in building and supporting Maersk’s partnership with Altana AI, helping translate advanced upstream intelligence intopractical, real-world trade compliance workflows. His work spans forced labor prevention, sanctions screening, supplier due diligence, and the integration of AI and trade data into everyday operational processes.
Before joining Maersk, Ryan held senior operational roles across logistics and transportation. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Communications from Towson University and a master’s degree in Public Administration and Leadership.He is also a Project Management Professional (PMP), certifiedby the Project Management Institute, and serves as a frequent advisor tobrands navigating today’s rapidly shifting enforcement landscape.
Ryan lives in Montclair, NJ with his wife and their three-year-old son.