Imex Business
Services
Import and Export Solutions
Imex Business provides advice and consultancy on import and export in a transparent and responsible way, delivering a customized service to clients. Maintains organized and handily all information’s in order to client monitoring his goods and let client update on negotiations stage. All services converge optimizing operational costs and a smart fiscal and tax management administration, being:
- Feasibility to purchasing products from overseas for which study are held: Research suppliers, presenting the best buying options, negotiations to buying the products, end to end operations;
- Imex Business also use to work with an particular Brazilian modality of business operation including a third party trading company account to order on behalf of clients.
- Advice on Sourcing and Economic Research and Analysis for Cost Optimization, Logistics, Accounting, Fiscal and Tax Management;
- Import comparative product studies coming from the deals on suppliers is made available to client stating the options best. The results are opened in spreadsheets for a careful check prior to order decision.
- Advice for businesses that require specific certifications for products intend to import ( ANVISA / MAP / ATO COTEPE / IBAMA / ANP ).
International Advisory and Consulting
The international consulting service and advisory covers several features functions and brings benefits to the customer, such as:
1. Control and import cost accounting, assisting the whole process;
2. Technical analysis, quality, cost and import product application, beside identification, qualification and suppliers approval;
3. Advice for qualification for the RADAR (SISCOMEX) of foreign brazilian trade system permission;
4. Customs products classification (HS Code, NCM code) and taxes resulting from this classification;
5. Market research and to select the best method of product internationalization;
6. Advisory on money exchange;
7. International Representative Office,
8. Importing by a third party order;
9. Organization and structuring of documents required for technical, financial and legal terms;
10. Research and developments on overseas markets from potential foreign manufacturers to give clients’ alternative of products supplies;
11. Full analysis of the developed alternatives, including: supply ability, costs, supply logistics, purchasing programming, among others;
12. Calculation and analysis of material costs involving all import stages to nationalization, with the goods delivered to client company;
13. Supply logistics feasibility, analysis of the material or equipment quality to be ordered and or further adjustment on the material or equipment by the supplier
14. Dealing with suppliers: Prices, quality, logistics planning and contracting freight forwarder;
15. Identifying legal requirements before start dealing imports of any product, like: Import License, dumping, INMETRO, among others;
16. Tracking production time on suppliers, sending constantly updated on goods purchased till the cargo is delivered on client premises;
17. Provide overseas qualified personal for the necessary qualification of the factories, for goods inspection at the supplier premises as well as loading inspections, and the assessment report done is release to client prior to any client decision making to effective make the import, part of guarantee that goods has the required quality agreed on purchase;
18. Develop with customer technical department the opportunities and needs on import to an short, medium and long-term product acquisitions;
19. Optimize shipping costs, payments to suppliers, transport cost of the goods end to end, fees checks, taxes deductions checks, inclusive the anticipated payment to Trading Companies on goods arrival prior to it nationalization;
20. Pre analysis on products and suppliers selected prior to effect the samplings shipments to client;
21. Specifications implementation required for the product on the quality being established with client on the technical analysis of the product;
22. Implementation of necessary documents concerning to purchases and samples acquisitions abroad;
23. Validation of the purchase order with the buyer client and the international supplier through contract and proforma invoice, obeying existing laws at the national and international territory in order to document be valid on the import process and for subsequent accounting purposes;
24. On time in providing corporate and legal documentation necessary for effective implementation of all existing processes on import;
25. Quality control analysis according to reports available,
26. Analysis of sample upon arrival at the customer previously conferred on source supplier;
27. Analysis of import opportunities on various products of client interest following a proper criteria on purchase, as volumes possible for their acquisition, consumption of the product to be imported, international availability, production supplier ability of supply;
28. Breakdown of financial, technical and qualitative parameters related to the products to be analyzed;
29. Identification of all technical and legal procedures for future application of the import process with the qualified suppliers (Needs for import license (L.I.) prior to order along with customs, if any dumping value existence on import, if INMETRO or any other license is required, etc.);
30. Issue of relevant documents for the process: Import License (L.I.). Import Declaration (D.I.);
31. Analyses regarding the financial viability for imports of the products concerned;
32. Monitoring and controlling the operation of import and clearance process;
33. Conducting qualitative analysis procedures and approval of the products being purchased;
34. Identification of business needs in terms of products, product development and approval of suppliers abroad;
35. Definition with client and supplier on quality standards;
36. Programming physical and financial volumes necessary to the imports;
37. Projection and cost simulation to nationalize products to be purchased, sales price and financial planning;
38. Determination of the real import cost after nationalization, the financial outlay and the sales price;
39. Definition of payment terms, funding, drawback;
40. Transportation and goods insurances;
41. Monitoring required documents and certifications;
42. Cargo consolidation;
43. Small orders;
44. Management and operating procedures expertise for export and import;
45. Operation with direct import and third party account via special regime;
46. Partnerships with Commercial Importers;
47. Partnerships with Commercial Exporters;
48. Administering exchanging rates;
49. Projects preparation for imports and export;
50. Conformance with clients companies objectives that outsource their foreign trade department;
51. Survey on legal requirements of the country of purchase;
52. Technical visits to suppliers’ structures, supplier premises evaluation, and further production and shipments monitoring;
53. Participation in national and international fairs with clients, as visitor or exhibitor, buyer or seller;