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Global Trade & Customs
Navigating the import-export regulatory environment — turning compliance into competitive advantage.
What’s included
How we work
Review trade flows, classifications, and compliance gaps
Structure duties, incentives, and certifications
Manage proceedings and regulatory engagements
Embed preventive compliance programs
The detail
For organizations engaged in international trade, customs compliance is both a risk and a strategic opportunity. Our trade advisory practice helps clients navigate a complex import-export regulatory environment — turning compliance into competitive advantage.
We advise on customs valuation, classification, and duty optimization; DGFT and Foreign Trade Policy matters including export incentive schemes, EPCG, and advance authorizations; and FEMA compliance, overseas investment structuring, and repatriation planning. We also represent clients in Special Valuation Branch proceedings, AEO certification, and customs broker regulatory matters.
Where trade remedies are in play — anti-dumping investigations, safeguard measures, and cross-border disputes — we bring focused capability, supported by end-to-end import-export compliance audits, gap analysis, and remediation program design.
The foundations of customs compliance are classification, valuation, and origin. Most organizations carry years of accumulated decisions on all three that have never been reviewed. Our structured classification and valuation reviews routinely surface both risk (misclassification, valuation exposure, misapplied origin rules) and recoverable value (overpaid duty, unused preferential rates).
On the optimization side, we help importers and exporters use the instruments the framework provides: duty exemption and remission schemes, EPCG, advance authorizations, and free trade agreement preferences. Each is structured properly, documented defensibly, and monitored so benefits are not quietly lost as the business changes.
India's trade framework rewards organizations that engage with it deliberately. We advise on DGFT and Foreign Trade Policy matters end to end: export incentive schemes, authorizations, policy interpretation, and representation before the DGFT. We keep clients' entitlements current as policy evolves.
On the exchange-control side, our FEMA practice covers inbound and outbound investment structuring, overseas direct investment compliance, repatriation planning, and the documentation that keeps cross-border capital flows clean. For groups moving goods, services, and capital across the India–Gulf–Europe corridor, we keep the trade and exchange-control positions coherent with each other.
When trade friction escalates, we represent clients through it: anti-dumping and safeguard investigations, Special Valuation Branch (SVB) proceedings for related-party imports, and customs broker regulatory matters. Preparation is decisive in these proceedings, and we manage the evidence, submissions, and hearings accordingly.
For organizations that want resilience rather than firefighting, we design trade compliance programs: end-to-end import-export compliance audits, gap analysis and remediation, AEO certification support, and the scenario planning that lets a business respond quickly when tariffs or rules shift. Done well, trade compliance stops being overhead and starts buying the business time its competitors don't have.
Common questions
An end-to-end review of your import-export operations: tariff classifications, customs valuation, rules of origin and FTA usage, licences and authorizations, incentive scheme compliance, and documentation. You receive a quantified exposure and savings picture plus a prioritized remediation plan, typically within four to eight weeks.
Frequently, yes. Common sources of recoverable value include misclassification at higher duty rates, unused free trade agreement preferences, and unexploited schemes such as EPCG, advance authorization, and duty drawback. Everything we recommend is structured to withstand scrutiny; savings that create exposure are not savings.
Yes. For related-party imports we manage the full SVB process: questionnaire responses, transfer-pricing-consistent valuation documentation, submissions, and hearings. We also advise on structuring intra-group pricing so future renewals are straightforward.
For regular importers and exporters, usually yes: AEO status brings faster clearances, fewer inspections, deferred duty options, and reputational standing with customs. We assess readiness honestly first, close the compliance gaps certification requires, and manage the application through approval.
Yes, on both sides. We support domestic producers preparing petitions and injury analysis, and exporters or importers responding to investigations: questionnaire responses, data preparation, submissions, and representation through hearings, coordinated with legal counsel where needed.
Sectors we serve with this practice
Global Trade & Customs