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Leyton helps companies assess the health of their global trade compliance programs, identify potential risks and process gaps, and uncover opportunities to strengthen controls, reduce costs, and improve trade operations.
Trade Compliance Basics
Managing global trade compliance is increasingly complex. Businesses must navigate evolving customs regulations, tariff requirements, product classifications, valuation rules, country-of-origin requirements, broker relationships, and import and export documentation.
As trade volumes grow and supply chains evolve, compliance processes can become fragmented across teams, systems, customs brokers, and international operations. These gaps may increase financial and operational risk while limiting visibility into potential cost-saving opportunities.
Leyton’s Trade Compliance Health Check provides a structured review of your import and export processes, customs data, documentation, and internal controls. Our specialists help identify potential compliance gaps, assess areas of risk, and highlight opportunities to strengthen your global trade framework.
The result is a clearer understanding of your current trade compliance position and an actionable roadmap for improvement.
Key Opportunities
Our Expertise and Approach
Leyton combines global trade expertise with data-driven analysis to evaluate your current compliance environment and identify practical opportunities for improvement.
Our approach is designed to help organizations understand where potential risks exist, prioritize the areas that matter most, and develop a stronger framework for managing global trade.
Evaluate key import processes, including tariff classification, customs valuation, country of origin, documentation, and broker management.
Assess relevant export processes, documentation, product classifications, screening procedures, and internal controls to identify potential areas for improvement.
Analyze customs and trade data to identify inconsistencies, unusual trends, and potential areas of financial or compliance exposure.
Evaluate existing trade compliance policies, procedures, roles, and responsibilities to identify gaps and opportunities to improve governance.
Review processes for communicating with and overseeing customs brokers to help improve data consistency, accountability, and compliance.
Identify areas where improvements in trade compliance may also unlock potential savings through duty recovery, tariff optimization, drawback, and other global trade strategies.
Our Process
Our structured Trade Compliance Health Check helps organizations understand their current compliance position, identify areas of potential exposure, and prioritize practical actions for improvement.
Work with key stakeholders to understand your import and export activities, supply chain structure, internal responsibilities, systems, and customs broker relationships.
Review relevant customs and transaction data to identify trends, inconsistencies, and areas that may warrant further investigation.
Evaluate critical areas such as tariff classification, customs valuation, country of origin, import and export documentation, recordkeeping, and broker oversight.
Highlight potential compliance gaps, process weaknesses, data inconsistencies, and opportunities to strengthen controls or reduce unnecessary trade costs.
Categorize findings based on potential impact and provide practical recommendations to help your organization focus resources on the areas that matter most.
Provide a clear roadmap for strengthening trade compliance, improving internal processes, and addressing identified areas of risk and opportunity.
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Changing regulations, evolving supply chains, and growing trade complexity can create hidden compliance risks and unnecessary costs.
Leyton’s Trade Compliance Health Check provides a comprehensive assessment of your global trade operations, helping you identify potential risks, strengthen controls, improve data visibility, and uncover opportunities for greater efficiency and savings.
FAQs
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Companies engaged in importing or exporting may benefit, particularly organizations with significant trade volumes, complex supply chains, multiple customs brokers, diverse product portfolios, or decentralized trade compliance responsibilities.
The scope can be tailored to your business but may include tariff classification, customs valuation, country of origin, import and export documentation, recordkeeping, customs broker management, trade data quality, policies, procedures, and internal controls.
Depending on the scope, Leyton may review customs entry data, import and export records, product classifications, internal policies and procedures, broker information, organizational responsibilities, and other relevant trade documentation.
Yes. In addition to identifying potential compliance gaps, the review may uncover opportunities related to duty overpayments, tariff classification, duty drawback, tariff refunds, and other global trade optimization strategies.
A health check can evaluate how information is communicated to customs brokers, how broker performance and data accuracy are monitored, and whether appropriate controls are in place to support consistent customs declarations.
Leyton provides findings and prioritized recommendations to help your organization address potential risks and improve its trade compliance framework. Where appropriate, Leyton can also help identify and support additional Global Trade Optimization opportunities.
The appropriate frequency depends on the size and complexity of your trade operations. Periodic reviews may be particularly valuable following significant changes in products, suppliers, sourcing strategies, customs brokers, internal systems, regulations, or tariff policies.