Advisory division
Lead practiceInternational Trade & Market Access
Nigerian exporters and importers rarely lose on price. They lose on paperwork, classification and compliance. That is the part we handle.
Positioning
A confirmed buyer is not a completed export. Between the two sit registration, classification, documentation, inspection, certification and a customs process that will hold a consignment over one inconsistent field. Most of the cost of getting it wrong is invisible until it lands: demurrage on a held container, a rejected Form NXP, a misclassified HS code, or a Certificate of Origin that fails to earn the preference your buyer already priced in.
Services
Each engagement is scoped in writing before it starts.
- Export readiness assessment
- Review of product, documentation, capacity, certification and target market, ending in a written gap list.
- NEPC registration and renewal
- Registration, renewal, and resolution of lapsed or rejected applications.
- Export documentation
- Form NXP, commercial and shipping documents, and preparation of the bank file.
- Import documentation
- Form M, PAAR, and the resolution of queries and holds.
- Classification and tariff analysis
- Correct HS classification, and the duty, levy and charge position that follows from it.
- Origin and preferential trade
- Certificate of Origin, and qualification for ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme and AfCFTA preference.
- Standards and regulatory clearance
- The pathway through SON, SONCAP, NAFDAC and product-specific requirements.
- Counterparty due diligence
- Verification of buyers, suppliers and agents before you ship, pay or contract.
- Contract and Incoterms advisory
- Structuring the sale so risk, cost and responsibility transfer where you intend them to.
- Market entry studies
- Demand, pricing, competition and route to market for a specific product in a specific market.
- Trade finance readiness
- Preparing the file to the standard a bank or NEXIM will assess. We prepare it. We do not arrange, broker or take an interest in the finance.
Our approach
We advise on trade. We do not trade on our own account, we hold no inventory, and we take no position in any transaction we advise on. That separation is the reason our advice can be trusted.