Cross-border Trade: Keeping On Top of Customs Regulations

Here are seven tips to improve regulatory compliance, reduce operating expenses and streamline global supply chains.

Costly delays. Unhappy customers. Big-time regulatory fines.

So how's your day going?

Such problems can cause major headaches for businesses involved in global trade and strike fear into the hearts of those considering the golden opportunities that come with going global.

Without question, in today's complex and constantly changing post-9/11 regulatory environment, managing cross-border shipping is increasingly complicated and risky.

In effect: a bewildering array of rules, issued by more than 200 sovereign nations. Add to that manual processes that are slow, expensive and error-prone. All this comes at a time when the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)