What’s so important about Lunch, Language and Understanding?
Even if a country defines that the main language is English, the cultural differences mean that there are differences in inflection, in emphasis and indeed in meaning.
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How to get the most out of exhibiting (in-person or online)
Get it right and your return on investment will be considerable. Get it wrong and you won’t achieve much at all. The following provides a basic checklist for your activities.
Helping Goods Flow Smoothly
A small investment of time and money spent on reviewing and improving your documents can deliver a dramatic return on that investment if it helps products arrive on time. That has a direct impact on cashflow, customer satisfaction, internal administrative time and energy, and ultimately how you are viewed by your customers and your staff.
SPOTLIGHT ON: The Spirit of Success
Building up to the leaders of the world’s biggest economies coming to …
What should you include on a commercial invoice for customs compliance?
In order to create a full export and/or import declaration, the customs invoice should contain: Gross and net weight of goods, values and currencies by HS code (Tariff code), Origin of goods by HS code and your EORI number.
What does January 1st and the trade agreement really mean to businesses?
International Trade Specialist, Frances Fawcett explores the impact of December’s trade agreement on customs declarations, tariffs, VAT, Country of Origin and more…
Introducing Local to Global
If you are going local to global, it is important to build and develop fruitful relationships to portray your brand effectively.
Brexit: Top Tips
Key Brexit survival tips and things you can start to do NOW.
We’ve compiled a list of tasks to help you prioritise.
Intrastat returns to continue for UK companies
Intrastat returns are a mandatory task for companies who move goods from UK to the EU (subject to value thresholds). It enables the UK authorities and the EU to track trade between countries for statistical purposes.
Let’s talk ATA Carnets
When you take goods, items or equipment, into and back out of a country, a temporary export passport is required – called an ATA Carnet.