International Trade Consulting

INTERNATIONAL TRADE CONSULTING:

International trade operations:  

• Specifics and types of international trade deals (leasing, barter, carriage, supply, etc.)  
• Specifics of concluding different types of international trade deals  
• Basic conditions of international trade contracts  
• Obligations of the parties in international trade contracts  
• INCOTERMS  
• International trade accounting: incasso, letter of credit, etc.  
• Monetary and currency regulations and control  
• Factors influencing price of a good in a contract, analyzing world price tendencies  
• Special economic zones and entrepreneurship in these zones  
• Patents, service marks, trade marks (registered trade rights and registration, inclusive international registration)  

Supportive services:

• Assistance in choosing and evaluating foreign partner  
• Preparing or checking an international trade contract, inclusive L/C deals  
• Participation in negotiations with foreign partners as the customer's consultant  

International transport operations:

• International transportation system  
• Transport logistics in international trade  
• Transport operations in international trade  
• Conditions of international transportation  
• Regulations and organization basics of international transport  
• Intermediary services in international transportation  
• Transport documentation  
• International transportation insurance

Supportive services:

• Developing of transportation scheme by all modes of transport  
• Assistance in choosing freight –forwarding company  
• Analysis of freight-forwarding or transportation agreement and recommendations  
• Participation in negotiations with transport and logistic companies as customer’s consultant   

Customs clearance and brokerage:

• Documentation regulating rules and procedure of customs clearance of transport means and goods, payment of duties, taxes, special customs procedures and regimes 
• Identifying customs tariff number, way of calculating customs dues with regards to specific goods and countries of origin 
• Non-tariff regulations like certification, licensing, and other permissive documentation 
• Providing recommendations for opening, closing, suspending a specific customs regime and optimal options of customs clearance 
• Legal evaluation and juridical analysis of every participant of the customs clearance process 
• Customs legal relations and conflicts and respective solutions 

Supportive services:

• Preparing documentation for customs clearance 
• Receiving permissive documentation (certificates of compliance, sanitary certificates, other paperwork) 
• Choosing customs clearance place, customs broker, and warehouse with respect to the trade deal and goods specifics 
• Negotiations with customs brokers and/or warehouse operators as customer's consultant 

Taxation of international trade activities:

• Indirect taxes under export and import of the goods 
• Value added tax under import (VAT) 
• Value added tax under export (VAT) 
• Excise taxes under exports and imports 

Supportive services:

• Customs duties, taxes, fees, excise taxes, etc. 
• Recommendations to VAT return