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Karen Taguchi

Karen Taguchi

Trade Compliance Advisor

Two logistics companies, one consulting practice, and a lot of hours staring at screening logs. Karen got into compliance work because the alternative was law school, and she didn't want to take the LSAT twice. She ended up specializing in the part most people skip over: why your screening tool flags 40 entities that aren't real matches and misses the one that is. Her articles here tend to come back to the same thing — your settings are probably wrong, and nobody told you because the vendor doesn't want to explain how the matching actually works.

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Compliance Automation ROI: What Manual Screening Costs Mid-Size Exporters

Model mid-size exporter sanctions screening payroll, displacement rates, integrations, penalty exposure benchmarks, plus trade compliance scope.

Last updated:May 11, 2026
Counterparty Risk Screening: Due Diligence Beyond the SDN List

Sham-transaction-era expectations push exporters past roster hits into control proxies diverted routing ECCN-aware end-use order spikes automated rescreens and audited false-positive notes.

Last updated:May 8, 2026
UFLPA Entity List: How to Screen for Forced Labor Before Entry

Four UFLPA sublists, 2025 sector priorities, convincing applicability packs, transshipped inputs that still trigger holds, and monthly supplier rescans across alias variants.

Last updated:May 7, 2026
UK Import Duty Calculator: Post-Brexit Rates and VAT

UKGT vs EU TARIC, five inputs for landed cost, TCA origin documentation traps, PVA and MPIVS reconciliation, TRA anti-dumping stacks the calculators skip, CDS, and the NI dual-tariff edge case.

Last updated:May 6, 2026
Watchlist Screening: How to Build a Program That Covers Every List

Twelve-list coverage, 80–88% match thresholds, re-screening tied to OFAC and EU updates, whitelists that survive list bumps, and logs that show list version—not just a screening date.

Last updated:May 5, 2026