20+ years of experience in customs and trade, with extensive experience as a government and private practitioner
Advises clients across a range of sectors, including apparel, automotive, and agricultural
New York
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Jason Kenner is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in New York. He works in A&M’s Global Trade and Customs practice. With nearly 20 years of experience related to customs and trade, both as a government and private practitioner, Mr. Kenner has worked with clients across a range of industries, including apparel, automotive, and agricultural.
During his lengthy career, Mr. Kenner has advised clients on a wide range of customs and trade matters, including tariff classification, country of origin, valuation, compliance, and customs-related disputes and penalties.
Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Kenner served as Head of Litigation at Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg P.A., a boutique customs and trade law firm located in New York. Before that, Mr. Kenner spent nearly 15 years at the US Department of Justice’s International Trade Field Office, where he represented US Customs and Border Protection as Lead Counsel on dozens of cases before the Court of International Trade and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Kenner also worked extensively with the Trade Fraud Task Force.
Mr. Kenner earned a bachelor’s degree in public justice from the State University of New York at Oswego and a JD from St. John's University School of Law. Mr. Kenner is a member of the Board of the Customs and International Trade Bar Association (CITBA).
On July 23, 2026, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued a notice of action concluding 60 parallel Section 301 investigations into the failure of various economies to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor. Acting under the specific direction of the President, the Trade Representative is imposing additional tariffs of 10 percent or 12.5 percent on all products of each of the 60 investigated economies, subject to enumerated exemptions. The additional duties apply to goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on July 24, 2026.
On July 20, 2026, President Trump signed three proclamations imposing an additional 50 percent ad valorem duty on specified baskets of Canadian-origin goods. The duties apply to goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on August 19, 2026. The proclamations invoke Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1338)—a long-dormant provision that never previously used to impose duties—together with 3 U.S.C. § 301 and Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. § 2483).
On July 20, 2026, the President issued a proclamation establishing a new incentive program under the Section 232 aluminum tariff regime. Companies that commit to building, expanding, or refurbishing U.S. primary aluminum production capacity may be eligible to import a corresponding volume of primary aluminum at half the otherwise-applicable Section 232 duty rate—25% instead of the current 50%.
In July 2026, the DOJ/DHS Trade Fraud Task Force published its first joint Resource Guide to Trade Fraud Enforcement. Although the Guide creates no new legal authority, it consolidates the government’s enforcement framework in a single public document and, in doing so, signals how DOJ and DHS intend to investigate, charge, and resolve trade fraud matters. Publications of this kind are infrequent and rarely incidental; the Guide should be read as a statement of enforcement intent.
