ClearPoint International
Arash Raminfar, is the President and founder of Clearpoint International, a full-service Customs Broker & NVOCC/ Freight Forwarder, founded 25 years ago, based in Los Angeles. He is additionally the founder of Clearpoint Intermodal, an asset-based drayage trucking company operating trucks with the Ports of Los Angeles / Long Beach.
During the past three decades, Mr. Raminfar has served in numerous capacities for consulting firms, express consignment carriers, importers, and the government. Prior to establishing ClearPoint International, Arash Raminfar was a Supervising Senior Tax Specialist, for the KPMG Trade & Customs Practice, a Big Four Accounting Firm providing import compliance consulting services to the firm’s clients, based in KPMG’s Los Angeles office. While at KPMG, Mr. Raminfar advised U.S. Fortune 500 and multinational companies on a host of customs-related issues.
Before joining KPMG, Mr. Raminfar was the Senior Customs Compliance Administrator for DHL Airway’s in-house customs brokerage department. Previously, he has worked for the US Customs Service, in the Fines, Penalties & Forfeiture Office. He has also served as the Customs Administrator for Warner Bros. Studio Stores, a consumer products retailer having over 150 stores nationwide. Mr. Raminfar has also worked as the Customs Manager for Shason, Inc., a textile piece goods importer.
Mr. Raminfar excels in the field of post entry amendments, and compliance protocol implementation, to ensure that proper; classification, inventory receipts, record keeping, and values are correctly declared to Customs. He has successfully managed two Compliance Assessments conducted by US Customs Regulatory Audit while at Warner Bros. Studio Stores and Shason, Inc. In addition, Mr. Raminfar is noted for his expertise in classification, valuation, and special duty deferral programs such as USMCA – Tariff Preference Protocols (TPLs), and GSP. He is additionally noted for his expertise in implementing domestic and international logistics and freight solutions.
Mr. Raminfar is a Licensed Customs Broker. He was a member of Omnicron Delta Epsilon; Economics Honor Society during the period he earned his B.A. in Economics from the University of Southern California.