TradeMoves advises clients on opportunities to improve access for their materials, semi-finished products, and finished goods, and helps to implement tools, resources and strategies to support their international trade objectives. We provide insight into ways to lower cross-border shipment charges via tariff-cost savings, navigate barriers to your exports, and optimize efficiencies in the supply chain. No matter the size of your company, our team can add value and help reduce transaction costs in the movement of your products around the world.
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Whether your company is new to import/export or is looking to expand into new markets, TradeMoves can help your export planning team understand foreign countries' import requirements and move products across borders.
Past examples of our services to support export/import planning include:
Past examples of our services to support export/import planning include:
- Created export preparation manual to ship client's refrigerated dips from the United States to 30+ export markets, including classification of products, tariffs, food registration requirements, import documentation, certification and labeling requirements.
- Provided detailed US import requirements, including health certificates and requests for quota exemptions, for imports of milk powder samples into the United States from multiple source countries in order to enable production line-tests for quality control and consistency.
Let us be part of your customs team. With a licensed US customs broker and certified customs specialist on staff, TradeMoves can help your company with customs issues including tariff classification, customs clearance, customs compliance, and audits.
TradeMoves also partners with other customs service providers to assist clients with technology solutions for customs compliance and CTPAT preparation.
Our team has helped clients with issues such as:
TradeMoves also partners with other customs service providers to assist clients with technology solutions for customs compliance and CTPAT preparation.
Our team has helped clients with issues such as:
- Technical expertise on tariff classifications, tariff rates, quotas, and rules of origin for raw materials, packaging, intermediate goods, finished products, and machinery and equipment.
- Identified potential tariff-cost savings via alternative classification of client's payment systems products based on function rather than end-use, and secured rulings in the US and EU to support classification with a lower duty-exposure.
- Designed, implemented, and maintain client's global trade database which provides logistics teams around the world with tariff information and lower cost sourcing options for future investment and import decisions.
Requirements for the import/export of food products can be especially complex. It is important that exporters are aware of - and comply with - requirements related to food product registration, certification, and import documentation in order to minimize delays in clearing customs and getting products on store shelves. TradeMoves can help your company monitor new or changed trade measures in foreign countries so that there are no surprises in moving products across borders.
We have assisted clients on various regulatory issues including:
We have assisted clients on various regulatory issues including:
- Drafted technical arguments and submission to overseas food authority to increase the permissible maximum level (ML) for cadmium in peanuts from 0.1 mg/kg. Revised standard currently allows for ML of 0.5 mg/kg in line with international standards.
- Completed multi-country comparison of import requirements for a client interested in new export markets in Europe and the Middle East for energy drinks, supporting the development of one regional standard product formulation acceptable in multiple markets.
- Routinely monitor proposed changes to import requirements for processed food products and assist in the preparation of submissions to foreign governments on impact of proposals on US exports.
If your company exports to customers in multiple countries or manufactures in more than one country, it is important to be aware of trade agreements and programs that could lower tariff costs for the movement of raw materials, intermediate goods and finished products across borders. With more than 400 preferential trade agreements in place around the world, is your company taking full advantage of lower preferential tariffs?
TradeMoves has designed numerous management tools and developed trade strategies that can help multinational companies navigate the myriad of rules and regulations resulting from new trade agreements. These trade tools help companies identify cost-saving opportunities along the supply chain – from sourcing of inputs to the sale of end-products – and ensure that global operations are taking full advantage of existing and future preferential agreements.
Our team can help exporters get access to key trade information such as foreign country's tariff rates, quotas, labeling requirements and product standards that can facilitate easy movement of products across borders. Having the right trade tools and resources at your fingertips will enable your logistics team to access markets with minimal delays. Examples of our trade tools and resources include:
TradeMoves has designed numerous management tools and developed trade strategies that can help multinational companies navigate the myriad of rules and regulations resulting from new trade agreements. These trade tools help companies identify cost-saving opportunities along the supply chain – from sourcing of inputs to the sale of end-products – and ensure that global operations are taking full advantage of existing and future preferential agreements.
Our team can help exporters get access to key trade information such as foreign country's tariff rates, quotas, labeling requirements and product standards that can facilitate easy movement of products across borders. Having the right trade tools and resources at your fingertips will enable your logistics team to access markets with minimal delays. Examples of our trade tools and resources include:
- Design and management of a processed food demand model and trade analysis used by leading food industry association to advocate for tariff cuts estimated at more than $10 million in annual tariff savings for US food processors exporting to free trade agreement partners.
- Regulatory audits to identify import requirements for clients in preparation for shipping products across borders and to assist with development of one universal label for use in multiple markets.
- Analysis of tariff and trade flow data to assist in setting trade priorities by region and country.
Outreach and advocacy to key policy makers, foreign government representatives, agency regulators and trade negotiators is important to ensure that your company's international trade priorities are taken into consideration and addressed. TradeMoves can help your company prioritize trade issues and communicate them to the appropriate government agencies. We can also represent your company's interests in trade associations and help advance priorities for your sector.
Examples of trade policy support include:
Examples of trade policy support include:
- Organized an industry communication forum to advance small- and medium-sized firms' interests in the Asia Pacific region.
- Managed a US-EU industry coalition to help secure a 10-year delay in implementation of the European Union's 'metric-only' labeling requirement. This success saved US and EU companies extraordinary compliance costs in labeling separately for each market and ensured smaller firms could remain compliant in both markets.
- Advocate clients' positions to government agencies on tariff and non-tariff barriers in free-trade agreement negotiations and trade disputes, and develop recommendations for commercially-viable solutions.