Jeff Sanford is a Senior Trade Auditor for Deleon Trade LLC.  He assists clients in preparing for audits, identifying compliance risks, selecting and reviewing statistical samples, and responding to U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) inquiries and requests for information.  He has extensive experience in CBP’s Automated Commercial Environment and designing statistical samples utilizing the same EZ-Quant Statistical Sampling Software used by CBP to select, project, and quantify the effects of noncompliance.  He has also prepared prior disclosure documentation, worked with clients to develop control procedures and compliance manuals to address the identified risks, prepared transaction value and deductive value reconciliations, and conducted complex value, free trade agreement, and special duty provision reviews in response to audits.

Before joining Deleon Trade LLC, Jeff served as an Auditor with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Critical Infrastructure Protection/Worksite Enforcement Unit in Chicago for 5 years and as a Senior Auditor with CBP’s Office of Regulatory Audit in Chicago for 10 years.  Jeff’s experience with CBP included time as an audit team leader for Focused Assessments, broker audits, commercial fraud investigations, and user fee audits.  These audits involved many trade areas including value, reconciliation, classification, anti-dumping duties, free trade agreements, and special duty provisions.

He successfully completed multiple advanced training courses with Customs, including: Advanced Valuation, Statistical Sampling, Evaluating Internal Controls, Free Trade Agreements, Focused Assessments, Advanced Financial Investigations and Forensic Investigative Techniques, and International Banking and Money Laundering.