Global Trade Advisory
Practical advice across customs, export controls and trade compliance.
The technical core of the practice. We work on the positions your business has to be able to defend, and on the programs that keep them holding after we leave.
What we cover
Three areas of work
Most engagements start in one of these and end up touching another. A valuation question becomes a related-party pricing question; a licence question becomes a governance question.
Area one
Trade and Customs
The positions that determine what you pay and what you can move.
Tariff classification reviews and rulings support
Customs valuation, related-party pricing, royalties and assists
Rules of origin and preferential trade agreements
Import and export requirements
Duty, GST and VAT impact analysis
Customs audits and risk reviews
Market entry assessments
Audit response and regulator engagement
Area two
Export Controls and Sanctions
The requirements that decide who you can sell to, and what you can send them.
Export control assessments
Dual-use product classification
Sanctions and embargo exposure
Restricted and denied party screening
Licensing strategy and applications
Product and technology transfer controls
Risk assessments across markets and channels
Policies, procedures and escalation paths
Area three
Trade Compliance Programs
The framework that makes the positions hold without you in the room.
Enterprise compliance frameworks
Governance and decision rights
Control design and control testing
Ownership across trade, tax, finance and logistics
Monitoring and management reporting
Internal audit readiness
Self-assessment programs
Training for procurement, logistics, finance and tax teams
How the advice lands
From technical position to practical action
Interpreting the regulation is the starting point, not the deliverable. Every position we give you comes with the four answers a business actually needs before it can act.
01
What does this mean?
The regulation in plain terms, applied to your goods, your markets and your operating model rather than in the abstract.
02
What is the risk?
Where the exposure actually sits, what it is worth in duty, penalty or delay, and how likely it is to be found.
03
What needs to change?
The specific data, process, control or position that has to move, and just as importantly what can be left alone.
04
How do we implement it?
Who does what, in what order, with the controls and the evidence to show the position held.
Works alongside
Have a position you need to stand behind?
Bring a classification you are unsure about, an audit letter, a licensing question or a compliance program that has to hold up under review.