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MCALLEN, Texas \u2013 Three topics will be featured during an international trade webinar being hosted next Thursday by the McAllen Economic Development Corporation.

The topics are: an update on how USMCA is working, the impact of COVID-19 on cross-border commerce, and the agenda the Biden Administration might follow for international trade.

\u201cThis webinar is free. It is a service to our companies or our community,\u201d said Keith Patridge, president and CEO of McAllen EDC.

Keynote speaker will be Jorge Torres, president of Interlink Trade Services, a customs brokerage based in McAllen, Pharr and Brownsville, Texas.\xa0

\u201cJorge does an excellent job,\u201d Patridge said. \u201cI consider him to be a resident expert here in the Rio Grande Valley on the USMCA, on trade policy, and trade regulations, including the 301 tariffs that exist with China still.\u201d

Torres has been a licensed customs broker for 25 years and has worked with maquiladoras and in customs brokerage operations for 30 years. He holds a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Business Administration and Accounting from Texas A&M University and a Master of Professional Accounting from Texas A&M International University.

Torres was keynote speaker on a similar webinar McAllen EDC hosted last June. Then, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement was just about to start.

\u201cThe feedback we got from our first webinar was excellent. Everyone felt like it was extremely helpful for them,\u201d Patridge said.

\u201cJorge provides information that is really useful on a day to day basis for our companies. Because of that first one, the reaction we got, we wanted to do an update. Hopefully, those that tuned in last time will watch this one and we will get many more people to join us.\u201d

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