CROSS-TRADING

Globalisation of the international markets, the automation of transport, together with ongoing progress within the new technologies field, are all favourable factors with regard to what are known as triangular operations or “international goods negotiation”.

Cross-trading operations must be understood to include those in which a resident in Spain acquires a certain good abroad, proceeding to sell that good in a third country, without the good in question ever entering Spanish customs territory; we should not commit the error of understanding such operations to include those in which the commercialising company acquires the good from a seller located outside Spanish customs territory, transports that good into Spanish territory and then subsequently dispatches it to a third country.

The possible variations regarding this kind of operation are determined by the geographical location of the manufacturing company and the purchasing company, which is to say, whether one or both of the companies are located inside or outside the European Union.

We must take various factors into consideration in operations of this kind, but the one that undoubtedly raises the greatest degree of concern judging by the number of consultations we receive, consists of documentation.

One of the characteristics of cross-trading operations generally consists of the need for the intermediary to ensure that the manufacturer and the buyer are not aware of each other. This means that the necessary import documents in the buyer’s country require a higher level of monitoring and control.

Startrans offers you all of its experience in relation to operations of this kind and facilitates the logistical management required to transfer the goods from the points or origin and to the destinations you indicate.

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