Randy Beyers
Principal, Sales and Use Tax
Indirect Tax
Susan Block
Principal, Sales and Use Tax
Indirect Tax
Marcie Sattler-Smith
Principal, Sales and Use Tax
Indirect Tax
Sandra Smith
Principal, Sales and Use Tax
Indirect Tax
Sylvain Thibeault
Principal, Sales and Use Tax
Indirect Tax
Garry Winkel
Principal, Practice Leader, Sales and Use Tax
Indirect Tax
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Successfully navigating multijurisdictional customs requirements requires careful planning. Our customs and trade experts combine duty minimization, trade compliance, and risk mitigation together in an efficient and accurate process. Leveraging an unprecedented combination of global trade expertise and industry-leading technology, we maximize profitability and tariff opportunities and enhance audit defense.
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Overview
Our professionals are experts in duty minimization, trade compliance, and risk mitigation. By combining this expertise with proprietary technology, we create insightful strategies that enable your business to navigate increasingly complex trade and customs challenges with ease.
Our multidisciplinary team of global trade professionals and designated industry experts integrates with your team to optimize your tax function and deliver tax savings that drive your business forward.
Tax Services
We provide comprehensive customs and trade solutions for Canadian businesses, designed to streamline multijurisdictional compliance while identifying optimization opportunities across your international operations. Harnessing deep expertise and proprietary technology, our customs and trade experts address every facet of your global supply chain, including import and export compliance review, tariff classification, and management of duty drawback.
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Our customs and trade services provide a complete solution for your immediate challenges and long-term strategic needs. We help clients across a diverse range of industries to minimize tax liability, strengthen compliance, and develop sustained strategies that streamline operations and protect your bottom line.
We resolve valuation and origin issues, optimizing duty recovery and structuring compliant import processes that protect cash flow and strengthen overall profitability.
We help major retailers streamline their customs and trade operations by reducing tax costs, preventing compliance errors, and enabling more efficient, profitable customs and trade processes.
Our team supports major automotive importers with the recovery of overpaid customs duties through the proper application of end-use provisions, while ensuring a fully compliant approach.
We expertly navigate the strict licensing requirements, controlled-substance import rules, and rapidly shifting global supply chain challenges healthcare and pharmaceutical businesses face.
International Trade Strategy and Tax Planning
We integrate customs planning into your international tax strategy, consulting on supply chain structure and distribution center locations to minimize customs duties, including value-added tax (VAT).
Trade Agreement Utilization
Our customs and trade advisors help clients maximize the benefits from trade agreements by validating documentation, optimizing Harmonized-System (HS) code classification, and preparing audit-ready records. This approach ensures optimal use of agreements while minimizing risk during customs audits.
Valuation Assistance
Every review is unique, and the valuation assistance required varies from situation to situation. If we identify opportunities during review, we can provide further recommendations. Special valuation projects are also available upon request.
Our Approach
Our customs and trade advisors provide specialized services that move beyond compliance to maximize savings opportunities and recover overpaid taxes. Our team of specialists ensures goods are accurately valued for customs purposes, eliminating the risk for overpayment of duties and potential exposure to customs penalties. By conducting thorough tariff classification reviews to ensure goods are properly categorized, clients can achieve compliance and capture all available duty relief mechanisms. Our professionals meticulously review your tariff classifications for accuracy, correcting inaccurate classifications and identifying opportunities for duty relief.
By filing Duty Drawback, we capture all available refunds for duties paid on goods that have been returned, destroyed, or exported, channeling critical capital back into your business.
Our Approach
To minimize business risk and maintain operational continuity, customs and trade support begins with compliance and risk mitigation. Our experts conduct a comprehensive review of your existing import and export processes to identify and mitigate risk exposure. During expert analysis, your consulting team will look for compliance concerns and ensure your processes meet customs laws.
