Export/Import Compliance,
tariff, trade and foreign investment consulting.
In recent years TSI Global
Consulting, LLC has developed an extensive
practice assisting our clients to understand the
complexities surrounding U.S. export controls,
export licensing, tariff classification and a
wide range of export/import compliance
matters. A few of our 2011 export
compliance related consulting engagments
includes:
1. Work on behalf of a Texas
based distributor of security cameras to prepare
and file an export license application with the
Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and
Security(BIS) for the export of heat sensing
security cameras to a distributor in
Monterrey, Mexico.
2. Work on behalf of a
California based wholesale/retail company
to prepare and file a BIS export license to
export fingerprinting dyes and inks to a
distributor in Brazil for resale to the
Brazilian police and civilian federal agencies
for forensics use associated with voter
registration.
3. Work on behalf of a
California based exporter of military
aircraft parts and components to provide
export compliance related counsel. This ongoing
project involves advising the company's senior
management on compliance based responsibilities
under the International Traffic in Arms
Regulations (ITAR) administered by the
Department of State. The project is framed
around setting up internal company compliance
systems and the filing of two State
Department export licenses for the sale of
aircraft parts and components to an East Asian
airforce.
4. Work on behalf of a
Singaporean based high tech company to
classify and define export licensing
requirements under the U.S. Export
Administration Regulations (EAR) for their
semiconductor manufacturing equipment
currently being warehoused in the United States
and scheduled for export to East
Asia.
TSI Global Consulting also
provides client services in a wide range of
other export/import compliance matters,
including filing of the Shippers Export
Declaration (SED) through the Automated Export
System (AES), tariff classification and filings
for binding tariff rulings from U.S. Customs.
Explaining complex government tariff, trade and foreign investment regulations to our clients in an easy to understand manner is a key aspect of the core competency of TSI Global Consulting.
Source Channel,
Distribution and Supply Chain Consulting
Our Mission : In the mid-1990s, a $50 million dollar New York based importer of unfinished woven cotton textiles approached our Jakarta-Indonesia office for assistance in developing new sources of supply for high volume imports. Sourcing high volumes out of Indonesia and Southeast Asian suppliers since the 1970s, this client had established a significant share of the US import market for greige fabrics used in the American apparel and home furnishing industries. However, by the mid-1990s the revolution in information technology, communications and transportation had turned this once highly profitable business into a fiercely competitive commodity trade. Most of the major Asian suppliers were limiting their export of raw materials, in favor of exporting higher value added dyed and finished textiles. The company sought our assistance in expanding their sourcing network by tapping into a little known middle market of medium sized Indonesian and Southeast Asian mill suppliers who had, for over a decade, been exporting to European buyers, but had yet to penetrate the US market. Our client's strategy was to outmaneuver its New York based competitors by using TSI Global Consulting's on-the-ground local expertise to tap into this new, lower cost, middle market network of high volume raw material suppliers.
Our Research and Implementation Efforts: Over a period of
several years TSI Global Consulting negotiated and developed high volume exports from fifteen medium sized textile mills located in Indonesia, India and the United Arab Emirates. Our on-the-ground presence in the region during the mid to late 1990s served as a unique source of competitive advantage for our client. Based half a world away in New York, our client was able to focus their efforts on developing domestic sales while we spent countless hours investing the necessary time and effort in upfront face-to-face meetings with the management of Asian mill suppliers in order to develop their supply chain.
Results: Between
1995 and 2000, this new sourcing/distribution
chain designed and paved by TSI Global
Consulting, fueled new exports to our client in
excess of four million dollars per year.
Cost and freight (CNF) export prices from
our middle market suppliers averaged 15-20%
below prices offered by the large, well
established Jakarta based mills whom our client
and their competitors had been sourcing from
since the 1970s. This new sourcing network gave
our client a significant cost advantage relative
to its competitors who had no access to TSI
Global's supply chain that had been built up over a period of years through investment in highly localized on-the-ground relationship building processes. Throughout the late 1990s, we replicated this model for several other American clients including a large South Carolina based home furnishings manufacturer.
Export Development and
Foreign Market Entry Consulting
Our Mission: Working on behalf of a well established Indiana based manufacturer of household cleaning supplies currently marketed across the United States in major retailers including Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot, Ace Hardware and Lowes, TSI Global Consulting was contracted to arrange a week long customized trade mission to Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico for the firm's senior management. Our client's objective was to explore and develop product distribution in Mexico.
Our Research and Implementation Efforts: Along with partner organizations in both Mexico City and Monterrey, TSI Global provided turnkey organization of five intensive days of business development meetings with senior managers in the buying offices of lead Mexican retailers and distribution companies including among others Wal Mart Mexico, Organizacion Soriana, Casa Saba, Total Home, Gigante, Carrefour Grandes and Grupo Corvi.
Results: While Mexican distribution is an ongoing work-in-progress for our client, TSI Global's path breaking customized trade mission has provided the company with a foothold in the Mexican market and several million dollars per year of potential new sales and distribution opportunities.
Other TSI Global Consulting Projects (in-country experience):
Vietnam: Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI) feasibility study for
Greenfield plant (textiles)
Indonesia (Sumatra):
Foreign Direct Investment feasibility study
(palm oil plantation)
Dominican Republic:
Product distribution (cotton textiles)
Haiti: Construction machinery distribution
Bangladesh: Product
distribution and supply chain development (denim
fabric)
Thailand: Product
distribution (textiles and apparel)
Japan: Trade show
turn-key management
Hong Kong: Trade show
turn-key management
India: Supply chain
development (cotton textiles)
Indonesia: Export
development seminars/consultative services
Indonesia: Anti-dumping
Advisory Services
Indonesia: Negotiation of technology licensing agreements
To discuss how we can help your organization, call us at 210-757-0618
or send us an e-mailinfo@tsiglobalconsulting.com
Address
12011 Huebner Road, Suite 210 San Antonio, Texas, United States 78230
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