Who are our clients?

We know what we are doing. Our clients know that from experience. Being at the helm, they would like to know when the wind is changing. The results we promise do not have an open end. Together with our clients we will identify the best possible form of co-operation for implementing the suggested solutions as a result of our scans.

In most cases we autonomously implement projects in our clients’ organisations. We acknowledge only one captain. Experienced as we are, we can draw up detailed plans and can give accurate cost estimations.

Contrary to large, often Anglo-Saxon oriented accountancy and law firms we do not work with junior consultants. We only work with consultants who have a healthy mix of expertise and long-time business experience.

In the spirit of entrepreneurship and international trade, Trade Facilitation’s founder Noël Egberts has become a Commissioner of the VOC ship ‘De Halve Maen’ (Half Moon). We will always be entrepreneurs, but prefer to work in co-operation with you and your organisation.

Our clients are from these sectors:

Multinationals

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Accountancy and Consultancy Firms 

Law Firms

Goverments

Who are our clients?

We know what we are doing. Our clients know that from experience. Being at the helm, they would like to know when the wind is changing. The results we promise do not have an open end. Together with our clients we will identify the best possible form of co-operation for implementing the suggested solutions as a result of our scans.

In most cases we autonomously implement projects in our clients’ organisations. We acknowledge only one captain. Experienced as we are, we can draw up detailed plans and can give accurate cost estimations.

Contrary to large, often Anglo-Saxon oriented accountancy and law firms we do not work with junior consultants. We only work with consultants who have a healthy mix of expertise and long-time business experience.

In the spirit of entrepreneurship and international trade, Trade Facilitation’s founder Noël Egberts has become a Commissioner of the VOC ship ‘De Halve Maen’ (Half Moon). We will always be entrepreneurs, but prefer to work in co-operation with you and your organisation.

Our clients are from these sectors:

Multinationals

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Accountancy and Consultancy Firms 

Law Firms

Goverments

Multinationals

A multinational is an enterprise operating from several different countries but managed from one (head) country.

The first Dutch multinational was the Dutch East India Company (VOC) that was founded on March 20th, 1602. It would remain the world’s biggest enterprise for almost 200 years. It goes without saying that a multinational produces and sells goods in many countries and also provides services there.

In most cases, the companies abroad operate with a high level of autonomy within the parent company’s framework.

We provide our services to Dutch-based as well as foreign multinational companies and we adapt our operation to the origin of those enterprises. You cannot compare an American enterprise with a Japanese organisation and the latter cannot be compared with a Spanish client. Large-scale enterprises generally know how to implement and realise chosen solutions.

The sector in which enterprises operate is another element that identifies the need for our expertise. We conduct legal proceedings for multinationals, train their staff, provide and implement advices. In particular, we like to manage the parent company’s Dutch branches on an interim basis.

Only if existing clients ask us to do so, we run projects abroad, hiring a local advisor if necessary.

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

This sector, consisting of enterprises up to 250 employees,

makes a 60% contribution to the business economics and employment in the Netherlands.

The small and medium-sized enterprises are open-minded, not afraid to share knowledge and have an agile response to market and technology changes.

Our clients in the small and medium-sized sector regard Trade Facilitation as the partner with whom they wish to share knowledge. The collaboration significantly contributes to an increase in the clients’ productivity and extension of their sales market.

Our clients in the small and medium-sized sector comprise of importers, exporters or processors of goods. One of the characteristics that defines the business relationship in this sector is that usually the client is the actual owner of the company.

We conduct legal proceedings, give advice and run the projects resulting from that advice at the client’s company.

Accountancy and Consultancy Firms

An accountancy firm provides a range of financial services, the most important of which is bookkeeping. The majority of people working in such a firm are accountants.

The large-scale accountancy firms like Deloitte, PwC, Ernst & Young and KPMG also employ tax specialists. This is no longer an ideal situation since legislation has been strengthened, for example the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) legislation. As a result, many tax specialists have established their own firms.

Many companies that formerly purchased advice from such accountancy firms, are now clients of Trade Facilitation. We are strong competitors of the large-scale accountancy firms with respect to customs and international trade areas. It has strengthened our position significantly. Small-scale accountancy and consultancy firms traditionally do not employ consultants or tax specialists who do not have expertise in these areas.

Trade Facilitation provides tax and project services to several accountancy and consultancy firms. If we have to call on outside expertise, we work together with experts from our extensive network of carefully selected tax specialists, consultants and accountants.

Law Firms

A law firm is a business that offers legal services, mainly by lawyers.

The business structure of law firms is often similar to that of accountancy or tax firms. They have one distinctive feature: lawyers have a regulated profession.

It is common practice for firms to specialise in specific areas and offer these services to multinationals and small and medium-sized enterprises. Examples being Transport and Marine Law, Intellectual Property, Economical Criminal Law or Labour Law. They are called niche services. Law firms at home and abroad hire us for those niche services. Trade Facilitation offers these niche law firms and their lawyers and clients additional customs and excise law expertise.

We successfully litigate up until the High Court and we have created jurisprudence.

We can even take credit for an amendment of the law.

Governments

Trade Facilitation exclusively initiates collaboration on customs and international trade issues with governments and semi-government organisations.

We have initiated public-private partnerships which we conducted with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy in the Netherlands and abroad.

Trade Facilitation’s substantive relevant knowledge has been incorporated into the curriculum of a number of Universities of Applied Sciences.