Jorge Luis Rankov has over 30 years of experience in international trade and customs compliance. He has held roles such as Global Trade Manager at EY, Regional Customs Manager at Hewlett Packard Argentina, and Account Manager at Almacenadora Sudamericana. He is fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish and has a bachelor's degree in international trade from UADE in Buenos Aires.

1. Jorge Luis Rankov
Piedrabuena 45
(CP 1836) - Llavallol - Pcia. Buenos Aires
011-4231-1202 | 155-327-0158
jrankov@gmail.com
Resume
I’m an International Trade professional committed to quality, customer service, flexible and adaptable
to the working groups, leadership and ability to motivate the team, restless personality and incisive
accepting new challenges, strong negotiating attitude, clear business vision and opportunities
detection, performance measurement and course correction when necessary.
Gained solid reputation in the area of global trade working around chambers of commerce, and likes
to work in teams. Fluent communicator in English and Portuguese.
I have the ability to learn new things every day and ease of communication. Very motivated to
continue my career helping the company with my experience and convinced to generate competitive
advantages from my area of expertise what’s Customs and International trade rulings, Supply
Chain and Logistics not only in Argentina but also Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru and
Bolivia.
Competencies: Flexible to work in multicultural and multidiscipline groups; good at finding
improvement opportunities in processes to maximize benefits, hard negotiations leading,
teamwork; leadership; project management, fluent communicator in English, Portuguese and
Spanish.
Experience
EY (Ernst & Young) Nov 2014 –
Jun 2015
Global Trade Mgr.
I leaded a group of 13 professionals with a wide range of skills like Chemical Engineers,
International Trade Degrees and Mechanical Engineers.
The purpose of this job is Customs classification of products for Global companies at
worldwide level (Johnson&Johnson and Pfizer among other big multinationals).
Supported by strong technology infrastructure and powerful software we provided HTS and
ECCN Classification to clients all around the world.
We classified medical care products and medicines, Chemicals and Mechanic spare parts for
two big clients here.
My Department provided all classification requests on time and correct.
I maintained and enhanced metric reporting summary for upper management and offered the
service within my contacts to other companies as part of my secondary activities in this
position.

2. Hewlett Packard Argentina SRL, Jan-1996 - Feb-2014
Regional Customs Mgr.
Responsible for ensuring the normal flow of goods into the countries of my concern.
Export Regulation & Customs compliance in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay and
Bolivia.
Third party providers management and fees negotiation, Broker Audits Metrics reporting.
Customs audits attending, In House Customs management; Customs Value and Classification
compliance matters. Internal Control Program Management for Export Administration;
Participated in several sourcing projects (Mercosur sourcing, Printers sourced to AR and CH
from China, Servers sourced from Mexico, and several others, Regional metrics reporting to
upper management
Regional Customs Mgr. Area AR,CH,PE,UY,PY y BO. 2001 - 2014
AR Customs Mgr. 2000 - 2001
Supervisor 1998 - 2000
Import & Export Specialist 1996 - 1998
Achievements: The most relevant are:
a) In house customs application, development and starting up, helped HP to save up to 500K
yearly estimated on Inbound warehousing fees
b) Tonner classification appeal to Customs, helped HP to save about 40 Million dollars in
duties
c) Mercosur flow development in 1998 with Tambajet project.- This was the first time HP
imported printers from Brazil taking Mercosur benefits. After that, several other shipments
came about PC's and Laptops too.
Almacenadora Sudamericana, 1995 - 1996
Account Mgr.
Responsibilities: Customs and Logistic services quotation to customers
Compaq LAC, 1994 - 1995
Customs and Logistics Supervisor
Responsibilities:
Lead time management, customs broker management, inventory controls, wall to wall and
cycle counts; Insurance companies claims because of lost in transit items.

3. Achievement: Boeing 747 charting to fulfill end of FY sales commitment arriving on time,
clearing in one day (DAP) and entering into systems to deliver to customers the day after.
Banco Francés del Rio de la Plata, 1993 - 1994
Assistant
Responsibilities: Transfer wire, collection and Letter of Credit oppening.
Banco de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires 1979 - 1993
Shipping Documents responsible at Letter of Credit department
Responsibilities: Responsible for management and custody of shipping documents for Import
letter of credit until customer delivery after payment.
University graduation:
International Trade Bachelor at UADE - Universidad Argentina de la Empresa - Buenos
Aires,
Languages
English Advanced
Portuguese Advanced
Spanish Native
Other Trainings:
Dangerous goods handling in air shipments
Hard negotiations (Harvard University method);
International trade Audit;
Creativity and Innovation applied;
Project and Program management;
MS Office management;
SAP background
Free time activities: Fly Tying, Fly Fishing open door activities.