At Quadrel, we understand that paying customs duties and meeting all the compliance requirements involved in moving goods, adds up to a great deal of direct and indirect cost, and raises issues of contractual and reputation risk for your business.

Quadrel has a client focused, market led approach to providing services. Our approach is based entirely on contributing to the success of our clients without which there is no success for our business. Your business needs are our objectives.

In the field of customs and international trade, we understand that your needs are most likely to be around

• reducing import taxes
• achieving process efficiencies
• managing risk
• ensuring compliance

These needs may be strategic, operational or both...

Strategic needs may involve appraisal of the customs issues that impact on making plans and taking decisions in areas such as

• trading structure
• product design
• sourcing patterns
• manufacturing arrangements
• market selection
• distribution channels
• selling/barter/offset/counter trade arrangements

Operational needs may concern issues around

• customs authority reporting/system requirements
• customs and other trade programme compliance requirements
• compliance assurance and management of risk
• process efficiency
• service levels of outsourced customs management activities
• degree of integration between areas of the business which create or mitigate customs exposures

Often there will be both strategic and operational elements, which create additional complexity.