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Trade &market entry.
Exporting is simply selling what you make in one country to buyers in another. Then it meets U.S. customs. Before a single document is filed, you should know exactly what your product costs landed in America, what duty it really owes, and whether you should sell through a distributor, an agent, or your own company.
What you walk away with
- A landed-cost model comparing your current channel against selling direct
- Your products classified correctly, with duty-saving options identified
- A written market-entry recommendation with the numbers behind it
- Importer-of-record standing and agency registrations ready to trade
What we do
The work, item by item.
HTS classification
Every product mapped to its correct tariff line, misclassification is the most common (and most expensive) importer mistake, in both directions.
Landed-cost & duty model
Product-by-product: freight, duty, brokerage, warehousing, and the distributor margin you currently give away, versus the cost of selling direct.
Direct vs indirect exporting
Indirect (a distributor or trading house carries the risk and the margin) versus direct (you own the customer and the compliance), modeled with real numbers, then staged so you can switch without breaking supply.
Tariff mitigation review
Where the rules allow it: origin engineering, valuation methods, exclusions, and foreign-trade-zone options for your category.
Importer-of-record setup
Registration, customs bond, and broker relationships, the standing that lets your U.S. company clear its own goods under tightened IOR vetting.
Export controls (ECCN / EAR99)
For tech, medical and dual-use goods: ECCN classification, EAR99 determinations and license screening, the most regulated categories need this before the first controlled shipment, not after.
Agency registrations
FDA, USDA, FCC, CPSC and state-level registrations, matched to your product category before the first container ships, with renewals on one compliance calendar.
Live cost dashboard
A simple dashboard tracking landed cost per SKU as tariffs move, built by our in-house technology team, updated as rules change.
How we do it
Four moves, in order.
01
Intake
We collect product specs, invoices, shipment history and volumes, usually one week of your team's part-time effort, guided by our checklist.
02
Classify & model
Products are classified, duty scenarios are run, and the landed-cost model is built against your current distributor or export pricing.
03
Decide
You get a written recommendation: the channel, the entity question, the duty position, and the twelve-month cost, with the workings shown.
04
Set up
IOR registration, bond, broker, and agency filings, then a clean handoff into company formation, already knowing what the entity is for.
A worked example
A components maker ships $4M a year of networking hardware to U.S. buyers through a trading house (indirect exporting): no U.S. presence needed, but the middleman keeps 35% and owns the customer. Selling direct flips the math: the margin comes home, but the maker becomes the exporter and importer of record. Its products need ECCN screening (electronics are among the most regulated categories), a customs bond, and FCC registration. The landed-cost model showed direct beat indirect by 19 points even after compliance costs, so we built the entity, the IOR standing and the screening program, and the trading house became one customer among several instead of the gatekeeper.
Watch this: Duty planning only works before structures are signed. A distributor contract or a mis-set importer of record can lock in costs that no amount of later structuring removes.
Delivered in-house
Trade analysis and the landed-cost model are prepared by our in-house trade and accounting teams; the tracking dashboard is built by our in-house technology practice. Nothing is brokered out.
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