Trade Compliance Assessment

Global trade is getting more complex and more expensive to manage. You source from and sell into more jurisdictions every year, regulations and sanctions regimes shift constantly, and the penalties for getting it wrong—fines, clearance delays, lost trade privileges—keep climbing. A Trade Compliance Assessment tells you exactly where you stand and what to fix first.

What it is

A structured, current-state review of how your organization handles global trade today, run by practitioners who have operated these systems. We look across the full compliance surface:

• Restricted-party and due-diligence screening — how customers, suppliers, and partners are screened against sanctions, denied-party, and dual-use lists.
• Product classification and valuation — how harmonized system (HS) codes are assigned and landed cost is calculated.
• Export and import controls — license determination, country controls, and documentation.
• Duty management — whether you are leaving money on the table in foreign-trade zones (FTZs), customs warehousing, drawback, and trade-agreement programs.
• Customs filing — how declarations reach authorities (for example ACE or ICS2) and where manual effort and errors creep in.
• Trade-content governance — how regulations, classifications, and restricted-party data stay current.

Who it’s for

Enterprises evaluating, scaling, or rationalizing their Global Trade Management (GTM) capability—whether you are pre-implementation, recently live, or years in and not seeing the value.

Deliverables

• A current-state assessment across the areas above
• A gap analysis mapped to your compliance obligations and cost-savings opportunities
• A prioritized, phased roadmap with effort and impact for each recommendation

Engagement model

Fixed-scope, typically four to eight weeks. The roadmap stands on its own—there is no obligation to engage us for the work that follows.