Customs and global trade services
Our team of professionals is ready to help you tackle your most common tax challenges.
Turn volatility and complexity into vision and opportunity
Growing protectionism and modernized trade enforcement are significantly affecting international trade companies. When working through challenges like increases in landed costs and cycle times, it’s crucial to seek proven strategies that work to minimize duty and mitigate compliance risk while boosting competitive success.
Navigating complicated free trade agreements (FTAs), classifying goods under the tariff, and understanding and complying with the changing regulatory environment can be extremely complicated and full of risks.
Our team offers deep expertise and timely international trade services paired with innovative technology to help your company move forward with more clarity and confidence.
We pay close attention to our clients’ customs and global trade responsibilities so they can handle them properly and on time
If you run across customs and international trade issues and don’t know what to do or how to handle them, such as classifying goods under tariff schedules, facing shipment issues, managing penalty notices, or finding duty recovery opportunities, we have the right people and technology to help you.
Identifying improvements and efficiencies to help strengthen your overall tax position comes standard in our work.
Maximize your tax advantage with the right customs and trade strategy
Whether you’re importing or exporting goods, our customs and global trade services were created to help businesses like yours comply with trade laws and regulations – both inside the U.S. and overseas. Plus, our international trade services can be customized to fit your unique needs.
Our customs and international trade professionals can drill down into your unique business challenges to identify potential improvements and efficiencies. For example, we can import data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and help you recover duties and taxes paid on imported goods.
With our premier customs and international trade services, you can gain more control of complexities to help manage global trade compliance while minimizing risks.
Duty recovery
We strive to help recover duties paid on the importation of goods if there's been overpayment or error. We also have our own broker license to help you file duty drawback claims.
Future duty minimization
Once we analyze your supply chain, we can help you identify preferential tariff classifications and guide you about which countries use FTAs or special trade programs to find potential opportunities.
Trade compliance risk mitigation
We can help navigate laws and regulations, prepare for a potential customs audit, or develop internal controls within your organization to reduce trade compliance risks.
Managed services
From sharing customs and trade insights and best practices with your staff, to outsourcing your compliance or planning, to determining qualifying goods under FTAs, to handling customs issues – our international trade tax specialists are eager and qualified to assist you.
Duty recovery
We strive to help recover duties paid on the importation of goods if there's been overpayment or error. We also have our own broker license to help you file duty drawback claims.
Future duty minimization
Once we analyze your supply chain, we can help you identify preferential tariff classifications and guide you about which countries use FTAs or special trade programs to find potential opportunities.
Trade compliance risk mitigation
We can help navigate laws and regulations, prepare for a potential customs audit, or develop internal controls within your organization to reduce trade compliance risks.
Managed services
From sharing customs and trade insights and best practices with your staff, to outsourcing your compliance or planning, to determining qualifying goods under FTAs, to handling customs issues – our international trade tax specialists are eager and qualified to assist you.
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The IRS is phasing in a new AEP program, which will automatically waive eligible penalties for compliant taxpayers and phase out the FTA program.
The 5% safe harbor for wind and solar is restored, letting taxpayers use it to meet beginning-of-construction deadlines under the OBBBA.
Tax should be a key part of your M&A planning because it can influence valuation, deal economics, and more. Find out what you need to know.
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Our team includes senior-level customs and trade professionals as well as licensed brokers. Together, we strive to provide high-quality, timely, helpful, and informational customs and global trade advisory services while discovering potential opportunities for your business – at a federal or international level.
Travis Ward
Partner, International Tax Consulting Leader and Office Managing Partner, Grand Rapids
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