Purpose and Objective
The Customs Compliance Manager is responsible for ensuring the organization’s compliance with global trade regulations and customs requirements. This role involves managing the proper classification of goods, optimizing duties and taxes, facilitating import/export activities, and ensuring adherence to all applicable laws. Success in this role requires a strong understanding of customs processes, trade compliance, and collaboration across teams to integrate compliance into supply chain operations.
Customs Compliance:
- Ensure compliance with international trade laws, customs regulations, and import/export requirements across all regions.
- Oversee the preparation and submission of customs documentation, including invoices, packing lists, and declarations.
- Manage Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) classifications, valuation, and country-of-origin determinations for all products.
- Serve as a liaison with customs brokers to facilitate the clearance of customs entries and resolve inquiries.
- Conduct research on customs rulings, laws, and regulations to provide clear guidance internally.
- Maintain and update the company’s Customs Import Procedures Guide and ensure recordkeeping compliance.
Duties and Tax Management:
- Analyze duties, taxes, and other charges to identify opportunities for cost optimization while ensuring full compliance.
- Leverage duty relief programs such as Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), bonded warehouses, and customs waivers.
- Track and report export shipment data for filing duty drawback claims with customs authorities.
Audits and Risk Management:
- Conduct periodic audits of customs and trade processes to identify risks and ensure accuracy.
- Address customs inquiries, investigations, and disputes professionally and in a timely manner.
- Maintain records and reports to support compliance audits and regulatory requirements.
Collaboration and Training:
- Work with cross-functional teams, including Logistics, Finance, Legal, Development and Production, to integrate compliance into supply chain operations.
- Coordinate with staff on requirements from customs and other government agencies, such as the Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Trade Commission, and safety regulations.
- Stay informed about global trade regulatory updates, port policies, and changes in customs laws, communicating relevant information internally.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex trade and customs regulations.
Requirements and Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in International Trade, Business, Supply Chain Management, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in customs and trade compliance, preferably in a multinational environment.
- Proven experience with domestic and international HTS classifications, Free Trade Agreements, and customs valuation.
- Strong understanding of global customs regulations, compliance software, and trade agreements.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and enterprise systems such as NetSuite.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- Experience working with customs brokers, freight forwarders, and government agencies.
- Familiarity with Customs ACE and monthly ACH processes is a plus.
- Knowledge of customs procedures in regions such as Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Canada is desirable.
Who We Are:
Founded in 2014, AMIRI is a global luxury house based in Los Angeles. The brand’s intrinsic California spirit is deeply rooted in authenticity and creativity, with collections influenced by Hollywood and infused with West Coast skate and music culture.
The brand’s trajectory has followed a clear global strategy, with biannual shows at Paris Fashion Week, a robust international wholesale business, and a growing retail Flagship footprint. The brand's first stand-alone boutique opened on Rodeo Drive in 2020, and AMIRI has since expanded to twenty storefronts in key cities including New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Dallas, Chicago, Tokyo, and Dubai.
AMIRI’s culture and contemporary vision prioritizes quality, creativity, and innovation in every facet of the business. Founder and Creative Director Mike Amiri continues to safeguard and shape the artistic vision of the brand and design studio.
As the brand’s presence expands globally and is one of the fastest-growing businesses in the U.S. luxury fashion market, AMIRI is looking for visionary individuals with a creative and entrepreneurial mindset to join our team!
What We Do
Established in 2014 by Mike Amiri, the luxury menswear and womenswear brand, AMIRI, marries refined craftsmanship with the glamor of LA’s authentic skate and street culture.
An LA native, founder Mike Amiri began his career in fashion by handcrafting unique stage pieces for iconic hard rockers such as Axl Rose and Steven Tyler. Eternally intrigued by such dark, heroic figures, his flair for tapping into this rock ‘n’ rock ethos led him to design an exclusive capsule collection for the LA-concept store, Maxfield.
Since this debut collection, Mike established a distinct design signature with his deconstructed, hand-embellished denim jeans, leather jackets, grungy flannel shirting and graphic tee-shirts — all grounded in the nostalgic touchstones of his Californian youth. Early styles, like the MX1 jeans and Bandana Buckle boots, remain the pillars of AMIRI today, and the designer’s nascent DIY sensibility has since evolved into a studied and distinct savoir-faire.
Today, AMIRI presents a collection bi-annually at Paris Fashion Week and is available from some of the most renowned retailers worldwide, such as Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman in New York, Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Selfridges in London and Joyce in Hong Kong. As its global presence grows, AMIRI remains faithful to its roots: each garment is still a labor of love, cut from the finest fabrics, produced in majority in LA, and often even hand-finessed in-house. More recently, production of leathergoods and tailored suiting moved to Italy.
Since 2018, Mike Amiri has been a member of the CFDA. In 2018, he was also nominated for the Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent at the CFDA Fashion Awards and honored with the Emerging Talent Award at the Footwear News Achievement Awards. In 2019, Mike was nominated for the Menswear Designer of the Year at the CFDA Fashion Awards.
