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- Trade Compliance
- Who it's for
- Exporting manufacturers
Exporting manufacturers
A manufacturer shipping equipment across borders can keep the assessment for a defined period and business unit next to export reviews for its shipments. The Control Owner tests the controls that matter to the transaction, while the Independent Assurance Reviewer records the decision on a submitted revision.
How Trade Compliance is set up for you
Scope each case
Record the organization, counterparty and period on the assessment before testing.
Keep control context
Link scored risks to controls, then tests to the control actually examined.
Preserve the decision
Keep reviewer reason, revision and supporting evidence connected.
A manufacturer shipping equipment across borders can keep the assessment for a defined period and business unit next to export reviews for its shipments. The Control Owner tests the controls that matter to the transaction, while the Independent Assurance Reviewer records the decision on a submitted revision.
Use one product line, one legal entity and a small group of destination markets for the pilot. Link the business unit to its scored risks, assign a control owner and record a representative failed test. Put the correction and independent retest beside the shipment review so reviewers can explain both the operating control and the export decision.
The pilot should include an ordinary case and an exception. For the exception, ask the Control Owner to show the failed result and its evidence reference. Give the action owner a due date, then have a separate reviewer inspect the retest. For the export case, use a destination and a license reference that the reviewer can reconcile with the organization's designated source. A status alone is not enough to explain either decision.
Agree the handoff before adding more teams: who maintains counterparty data, who owns controls, who supplies official determination evidence and who records the final decision. Reconcile the authorized attachment visibility with those assignments. When a reviewer returns a record, its owner needs to see the reason and the exact revision that was examined.
[Plan the first cycle](/trade-compliance/implementation) and [inspect the records](/trade-compliance/data-model).
Features to start with
Roles on the team
- Independent Assurance Reviewer
- Review eligible revisions independently and reconcile operational evidence.
- Auditor
- Read authorized evidence and reports.
- Control Owner
- Prepare assigned operational records and execute eligible reviewed actions.
- App Administrator
- Maintain organization configuration and membership.
Set up Trade Compliance your way.
Start free, then use Proto to change fields, steps and approvals before your team goes live.