As President of Tracon, Donald J. Goodwin brings clients the benefit of more than 30 years of customs experience in the areas of customs valuation, anti-dumping/countervail, FTA's, and border clearance programs (CSA, PIP, CTPAT). He advises on all disciplines of import regulations and represents clients before the Canada Border Services Agency and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal. His integrity and extensive experience provides clients with knowledgeable, professional, and reliable solutions to all trade issues.

Carol Brown has been with Tracon since 1987 and specializes in tariff classification, statistical research, appeals, product/tariff database management, FTA origin determination and certification. She also has general experience and knowledge in a wide variety of Customs matters such as marking rules, seizures, GST, U.S. requirements, gas tax, refunds. Carol's approaching 20 years in the trade consulting business and her advice is relied upon by clients for timely, knowledgeable and accurate problem solving.

In February 2000 Evgeny Pavlenko joined Tracon as an expert in international trade policy and practice. Evgeny was a trade officer with the government of Russia for more than 20 years and the last 7 years was Deputy Trade Commissioner in the Russian Trade Mission in Ottawa, Canada. Evgeny has been instrumental in having Russia and Ukraine recognized by the Canadian government as operating as a market economy for purposes of trade regulations. Evgeny continues to work in the trade policy area assisting and advising Tracon's clients.

Linda Crouch started with Tracon in 1998 and is our office manager. Linda is often the first voice contact our clients will encounter when contacting Tracon Consultants Ltd. Linda possesses the working knowledge to promptly direct our clients to the proper consultant in order to receive expert advice and assistance. In addition to overseeing the overall business operations of Tracon, Linda has earned her Canadian Society of Customs Brokers Introductory Certificate. Linda has attended numerous trade and customs seminars and workshops where she has acquired the most up-to-date information regarding AMPS, PIP, C-TPAT and many other customs issues that concern our clients today. Linda also assists in the FTA certification process for many of our clients. FTA clients appreciate the database maintenance tool used to track and record certificates of origin by product.

Other Consultants are hired on an as needed basis and Tracon frequently calls upon the expertise of trade experts in Canada and in other countries. This network of Customs Advisors, the Customs Collegium, provides Tracon's clients with perhaps the most extensive global knowledge and experience base available to importers and exporters.