Import Safety

Our Vision:
The United States has one of the safest food supplies and among the highest standards of consumer protection in the world. However, the rapid growth in the volume of exports, as well as the number of importers and exporting countries, present challenges that require urgent attention.

American’s want to enjoy fresh produce year-round, wear low-cost clothing, drive foreign-made cars, use electronic products designed and built off our shores, purchase affordable furniture and otherwise participate in the bounties of a global economy. This is the value of global trade. The challenges we face are the result of a global market beginning to mature.

Just as the volume of trade has changed, so must the strategies to regulate safety. Simply scaling up our current inspection strategy will not work. We need to develop new tools and strategies equal to the new challenges we face.

In a global market speed is life. Speed is accomplished when trust has been established. Trust happens only with complete transparency. Transparency requires standards, and standards require collaboration. Collaboration is the new frontier of human productivity.

Our Team:
Members of the Leavitt Partners team have direct experience dealing with unsafe imported food and medical products. This includes knowledge of the regulatory process domestically and internationally.

Leavitt Partners have worked directly with foreign governments, importers, and domestic firms to address the safety of imported goods. For example, principals of our firm, while working in senior governmental roles, negotiated agreements on food, medicine and medical devices in China, India, Vietnam, Latin American and Europe. Leavitt Partners Chairman, Mike Leavitt had government-wide responsibility to develop an import safety strategy.

Leavitt Partners provides strategic counsel regarding the complexities and on-going changes related to imported foods and medical products, including pending legislation, product tracking and regulatory expertise.