Tag: Trade Agreement

  • Certificate of Origin Consulting for CUSMA: Ensuring Preferential Treatment

    The Key to Duty-Free North American Trade CUSMA offers preferential treatment, often zero duty, for qualifying goods. The certification can be in any format as long as it contains nine prescribed data elements. This flexibility creates a trap – businesses sometimes provide incomplete certifications or issue them without proper origin analysis. Understanding CUSMA Rules of…

  • Switzerland-UK Trade After Brexit: What Businesses Need to Know

    Brexit fundamentally reshaped UK-EU trade relations, creating new tariff structures, regulatory frameworks, and customs procedures. Switzerland, observing from its position of non-EU membership, faced immediate questions: How would the UK’s departure affect Switzerland’s access to British markets? What changes would Swiss businesses and UK importers face? How would Switzerland’s own relationship with the EU, already…