Trade Agreements Blog

News and Resources to Help Your Business Manage Trade Agreements

Best Practices for Managing NAFTA:
This benchmark study uncovers best practices for implementing & optimizing NAFTA, with key statistics from a survey of trade compliance managers from over 200 firms.

eBook – Direct Import Strategies for Retailers:
This eBook gives retailers guidance on establishing a Direct Import Program that will simplify, streamline and manage all activities involved in the import process.

Trade Agreement Best Practices Benchmark Study:
Implementing and maintaining compliance with a free trade agreement is a complex and technical process. Make sure your company takes full advantage of the trade agreement savings by benchmarking your process against 300 respondents across many different industry verticals and revenue size.

Leveraging Free Trade Agreements to Achieve the Next Level of Savings from Global Sourcing:
This white paper addresses key findings from an industry survey companies’ FTA usage and delivers best practices for building a portfolio of trade agreement programs to reduce the cost of purchased parts in your supply network.

Automating the Import Supply Chain:
With the new 10+2 regulations, new Global Trade Management (GTM) technologies are increasingly important to automate global operations and provide pre-validated entry data and shipping documentation to global suppliers and carriers to ensure compliance.

Six Best Practices to Improve Compliance with a Restricted Party Screening Solution:
In this white paper, we look at some critical criteria to look for when searching for an optimal denied party screening solution.

Five Best Practices to Reduce International Freight Costs:
Through automation,  global logistics managers can implement five key improvement strategies to help to better manage and reduce international freight spend.

Case Study: Haworth Streamlines NAFTA Compliance:
A $1.4 billion global leader in office furniture and interiors, Haworth needed a way to automate the process of qualifying goods for NAFTA preferential trade terms for exporting from both the US and Canada.