As a small business your resource can be stretched, and your ability to acquire experienced and highly skilled staff can be challenging and comes at a significant cost. Know-how, experience, and confidence are some of the most cited barriers to micro businesses and SMEs importing and exporting; they crop up in every survey, every report, every conversation! Yet UK-based SMEs have some of the most phenomenal products and services that are just primed for export; whilst if COVID taught us anything it’s that as businesses we need to build more resilience into our operations, especially our supply chains, and this is exactly where importing can help.
Micro businesses and SMEs make up the majority of Global Trade Department’s customer base, and this is no accident. We have specifically designed our services and our flexible mode of operating to meet the needs of these massively important companies. Much of what we do serves to boost internal knowledge, skill sets and capacity, helping our clients develop their global trade revenues to a point where they can start to recruit dedicated teams and reduce their reliance on us.
Our ‘Hands-on Support’ offering covers several ways in which we can help achieve just this, but we’re never prescriptive, so if you’ve identified a need that is not covered here, just let us know, we’ll be delighted to help.
GTD provides technical consulting around all harmonised regulation ensuring companies understand exactly what they must do to be fully compliant before placing their product on the EU market; we also provide a Responsible Person / Authorised Representative service for companies based outside of the 27 member states, the 3 EEA markets, and Northern Ireland.
GTD provides extensive, practical support around sustainability regulation, including but not limited to EU CBAM, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Corporate Sustainability Reporting, Digital Product Passport (DPP), EU PPWR, EU ESPR, and much more.
GTD is increasingly removing the burden of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) compliance from small businesses by determining whether their goods and packaging are with in scope and then undertaking the registration and reporting requirements on their behalf.
GTD has now assisted tens of UK SMEs to establish an overseas office, be they separate legal entities or extensions of their UK operation. If an overseas office is key to your expansion plans, and you would benefit from practical advice or support in making it a reality, get in touch to learn how we can help.
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 of 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 EU and global regulatory requirements and drive long-term growth.
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