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About This Webinar
Manufacturers are facing immediate challenges across their supply chains — from navigating tariff refunds and rising costs to managing supplier relationships and customer expectations. Many are also struggling to make decisions for 2027 and longer-term amid continued trade and policy uncertainty.
Join Wipfli and the founder of Inside Beltway, a DC-based advisory and research firm, to learn what recent policy developments mean for manufacturers — and how to plan for whats next.
Agenda
  • Introduction
  • Presentation
  • Q&A
  • What tariff changes and refund opportunities mean for pricing, margins and customer relationships.
  • How emerging policy developments could influence tax, trade and regulatory decisions over the next one to two years.
  • Practical considerations for planning through uncertainty, including sourcing, supplier negotiations and operational strategies.
Presenters
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Omar Nashashibi
Founder
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Mike Devereux
Partner
Mike Devereux currently serves as Wipfli’s manufacturing industry leader. In that role, he oversees a team of professionals nationally who provide audit, tax and consulting services to the manufacturing sector. Mike’s role is primarily focused on organic growth, increasing Wipfli’s national presence and identifying value for manufacturing clients and prospective clients.

He speaks nationally to various professional and industry trade organizations and associations about opportunities to reduce federal and state tax liabilities and has written dozens of articles for industry trade publications. Topics for his sessions have ranged from taxes, trade and tariffs to ways companies can use technology to get more insights from operations.
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Andrew Seifert
Partner
Andrew Seifert is a partner in Wipfli’s national tax office. Since joining Wipfli in 2015, his focus has been assisting clients with complex tax issues. He specializes in federal and multistate corporate and partnership tax compliance, accounting methods, tax research, and mergers and acquisitions. He is dedicated to assisting the firm’s clients with their unique and challenging issues.

Andrew has presented on various tax topics for the Minnesota Society of CPAs (MNCPA), Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), Minnesota CLE, the Financial Planning Association of Minnesota and the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA). He currently serves as an adjunct faculty member in the University of Minnesota’s master of business taxation program and has served as an adjunct faculty member for the University of Minnesota’s law school.
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