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>> My name is Glenn Kaminsky.

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I'm an attorney.

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I work at the Department of
Homeland Security in Washington.

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I work primarily on trade law.

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Laws that deal with importing and
exporting in the sort of customs field.

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So, I interpret legislation.

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I work on regulatory changes in that area.

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I give counsel to the people making policy
decisions about changes in those laws

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and procedures that deal with sort of
importing and exporting of all sorts of stuff.

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Lately, some of the things we've been
working on are ways to streamline the process

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of importing and exporting goods.

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So, to automate the processes for
submitting forms and all the paperwork.

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And yeah, depending on what
you're importing or exporting,

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there are a lot of different restrictions on it.

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There are many different government
agencies that get involved.

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If you're talking about food or
cars or all the different products,

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you have to sort of navigate
this web of interconnected laws.

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So, as a lawyer, it's pretty interesting

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because you're always interpreting
the intersection between these things.

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And one of the big goals is to streamline
that and make it work better for companies

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that are dealing with those regulations.

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So, that's an example of one
thing I've been working on.

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Lately, I've been working a little bit on Cuba.

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We've been changing our procedures
for dealing with trade with Cuba.

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Because the current administration is looking

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to improve the relationship
and move forward with that.

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So, we look at the kind of things that we
can do, without getting congressional action.

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You know, it depends on what
you can and can't do.

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So, you can have some creativity involved there.

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You're working with people who are
making the decisions about what

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to target and how to improve things.