Our UK-based and local market specialists have many decades of experience between them, gained from working across a wide range of industry sectors and global markets. Their priority with every client engagement is to work with you, the client, in a manner that works best for you and your team to ensure that we optimise the success and minimise the risk of your global trade endeavours.
As a flexible, tightknit team, we are 100% outcome focused and committed to maximising knowledge transfer so that our clients increase their self-sufficiency and skillset over their time working with us.
Customs problems fall broadly into three categories i.e. errors with documentation, logistics, or regulatory non-compliance. Whatever the issue, customs authorities stopping goods and/or referring to market surveillance bodies, leads to unnecessary delays, increased costs, and a less than optimum customer experience.
GTD supports companies to resolve some of these issues and more.
Most customs issues arise from inaccurate and incomplete documentation, logistics problems, and regulatory non-compliance.
GTD guides companies on the specific customs and documentation requirements their products mandate, establishing blueprints to efficient trade and avoidance of customs delays.
International trade is a complex, interconnected web of bilateral and unilateral preferential trade agreements, WTO governed non-preferential trading norms, supply chains, embargoes and sanctions. Understanding this landscape is essential to trading efficiently, cost effectively, and compliantly. GTD helps UK and international companies navigate this complex landscape.
Correct classification of products is an essential part of customs compliance and no more so than in the case of controlled goods or those with additional requirements placed upon them i.e. the tariff code and destination will dictate whether an export license or certification is a prerequisite to trade.
GTD helps UK companies navigate sanctions lists and understand the kind of documentation needed.
Increasingly the work GTD undertakes involves helping SMEs, UK and overseas, navigate the complex and rapidly developing world of sustainability regulation. The team have developed a specialism in this area, and have a wealth of resources consultancy, training, and technology based.
In addition to Global Trade Sustainability Assessments, the GTD Platform is also extending to provide Digital Product Passports (DPP) to enable clients to comply with the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, as well as other global variants o the regulation.
Obtain an impartial, outside-in assessment of your current global trading processes and practices, with practical recommendations of how you can incorporate sustainability values and targets to meet future regulatory requirements and drive long-term growth.
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