Co-Chair for COAC Export Modernization Working Group to Retire

Brenda Barnes, co-chair of CBP’s 15th term Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee Export Modernization Work Group and export manager for Geo. S. Bush & Co., will retire July 29 after more than 30 years in the industry. Barnes served on several COACs and helped to produce the Export Modernization White Paper, a broad undertaking meant to serve as a road map for the export process (see 2106230056). “I have been devoted to exports for my entire career and I hope to have served its community well and for the betterment of our United States of America’s economic security,” Barnes said in a July 27 email.