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.
The EU applies the most stringent regulation globally to product safety. Other markets typically align themselves with that regulation or develop their own derivatives.
GTD helps companies determine the correct regulation for their products and services and ensures they can comply.
There can be no doubt that climate awareness and pressure is mounting, at least amongst developed nations; the Paris Agreement and recent COP summits have served to raise the topic amongst environmentally conscious businesses and consumers.
GTD helps companies understand how to navigate and comply with the plethora of EU and global sustainability regulation.
GTD is increasingly removing the EPR burden from small businesses by determining whether their goods and packaging are with in scope and then undertaking all of the registration and reporting requirements on their behalf.
Depending on your business sector and geographical target market, the decision to establish an office overseas can be either a long-term ambition or an immediate imperative. Global Trade Department and its in-market associates guide companies navigate the challenges associated with establishing an overseas presence e.g. form of legal entity, local regulation, tax legislation, premises, staff, and more.
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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