We offer professional technical expertise to multi-lateral and bilateral donor institutions, Governments, as well as public and private stakeholders around the world to realize tangible benefits from the implementation of internationally recommended best practices related to customs modernization, trade and transport facilitation, and supply chain security.
About Us
We are headquartered near Ottawa Canada. For over 30 years, we have been assisting a wide variety of clients in over 50 countries around the world. Our highly qualified experts have successfully designed and implemented a broad range of customs, trade and transport related reforms, by working in close collaboration with such clients as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, UNCTAD, World Customs Organization, USAID, UK Department for International Development, as well as such international consulting firms as Price Waterhouse Coopers, Deloitte, Chemonics International and AECOM.
Our Services
We specialize in modernizing customs and trade/transport-related legislation, procedures, controls, and IT systems to bring them in-line with international conventions and recommended practices. We design and implement trade/transport facilitation and supply chain security reforms.
We offer a full range of consulting services, including:
- Undertaking diagnostic assessments and benchmarking;
- Assistance with strategic and corporate planning;
- Business process re-engineering;
- Institutional transformations (e.g. creation and auditing of Revenue Authorities);
- Development of IT strategies, definition of functional requirements and system audits;
- Human resource capacity building, including design and delivery of management and technical training courses e.g. tariff classification, customs valuation, origin, inspection techniques (trucks, aircraft, rail, postal/courier), post-clearance auditing, risk management, narcotics interdiction, intellectual property rights enforcement; trade facilitation, authorized economic operator/supply chain management;
- Revenue assessment and collection related audits and investigations;
- Financial and administrative reforms related to revenue administration;
- Intelligence gathering and analysis as well as risk management;
- Investigations related to narcotics smuggling and money laundering;
- Assistance in defining specifications for procurement, bid evaluation, contract negotiation (including maintenance agreements), deployment and auditing results of X-Ray scanners;
- Assistance in conducting commercial fraud investigations;
- Assistance in establishing intellectual property rights enforcement regimes;
- Assistance in obtaining maximum results from Pre-shipment and Destination Inspection, and how to phase-out such regimes;
- Design and implementation of Authorized Economic Operator regimes;
- Design and evaluation of Duty-Deferral regimes (e.g. Freeports, Special Economic Zones, Bonded Manufacturing Warehouses, Temporary Admission; Duty Drawback and Exemptions);
- Trade Policy, Trade Agreements and Regional Economic Integration studies;
- Aviation and Maritime Security Audits;
- Integrated Border Management Projects (e.g. One-Stop-Shops & Single Windows)
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