Foreign Trade Solutions

FTS Associates, Inc.

Foreign Trade Solutions has spent the past fifteen years delivering training and consulting assistance to enforcement agents, cargo agents, Custom House Brokers, and some of the most notable U. S. exporters and importers.  The tenacity, perseverance, and attention to detail, with which they approach every assignment, have delivered benefits to US companies because they understand the process.

The company's hallmark is their simplification of difficult concepts in areas that are most confusing to traders.  FTS' training programs are replete with actual , personal case studies that help the participants better retain the essential concepts.  Their ability to provide value to clients through comprehensive, mark-sensitized services is now broadly recognized throughout the country.

Paul H. Savoie

President, CEO

Foreign Trade Solutions

FTS founder, Paul H. Savoie, has over forty years of International Trade experience.  As President of Foreign Trade Solutions, (FTS Associates, Inc.), he and his employees provide solutions to those involved in U.S. exports and imports.

Mr. Savoie is a results-oriented professional who delivers because he knows the process.  When U.S. Customs initiated "OPERATION EXODUS," he was called upon to extricate some articles that had been seized.  The costly delay was quickly resolved because Mr. Savoie immediately knew the right parties to involve.

He has set U.S. Commerce Department precedent on several occasions.  In one case he gained approval for the export of restricted systems to the former Soviet Union.  During the two-year odyssey, Mr. Savoie engaged numerous U.S. government agencies, and then influenced the approval through the former COCOM.  This accomplishment required harnessing the efforts of U.S. Senators and Representatives, National Security Council Members, Ambassadors, and European Deputy-Ministers.

This achievement caught the attention of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, (CSIS).  This Washington, DC research group invited Mr. Savoie to participate in a review of US export controls.  With leaders from the public and private sectors, he influenced the development of congressional testimony, which eventually paved the way for the easing of U.S. controls.

Mr. Savoie received his Bachelor of Arts from Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.  He is fluent in both French and Spanish and has lived abroad and traveled the World extensively.