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Trade advisory for a changing global landscape
At Goyder, we believe well-informed trade policy decisions drive economic growth. We work as an embedded partner, not a one-off advisor, combining deep technical expertise with continuous monitoring to help clients manage risk and seize opportunity in a fast-moving global trade environment.
Trade Intelligence
Continuous trade policy intelligence, delivered in the format that fits your business.
Weekly Email Briefings
Our concise, insight-rich weekly emails deliver the latest developments in global trade policy straight to your inbox. Curated by experts and designed for busy professionals, these updates help you anticipate risks, spot opportunities, and stay informed without the noise.
Monthly Executive Presentations
Each month, we provide a comprehensive, boardroom-ready briefing tailored for senior leadership. These presentations offer deep dives into critical trends, regulatory shifts, and geopolitical developments impacting international trade, equipping your C-suite with the clarity and foresight needed to lead with confidence.
Integrated Intelligence
Integrate our trade policy intelligence into your existing risk management platforms and workflows. Through secure and scalable tech integration, our insights become a natural part of your decision-making environment, providing real-time updates and alerts exactly where and when you need them.
Trade & Supply Chain Due Diligence
Traditional due diligence often overlooks the complex and volatile world of international trade. Our International Trade Assessment integrates trade and supply chain analysis directly into your due diligence process, ahead of any sale, merger, acquisition or investment.
Why it matters
Rising geopolitical tension, mounting supply chain pressure, and fast-moving sustainability regulation are adding layers of risk that conventional commercial, legal and financial due diligence does not capture. Our assessment identifies the errors, risks and missed opportunities that could affect valuation or investment decisions.
Step 1: Information gathering
We map the target's trade flows, documentation and contracts to identify focus areas and the data needed.
Step 2: Risk and opportunity analysis
We assess trade practices and operations against international and domestic rules to flag risk and underused opportunities.
Stage 3: Informed decision-making
We deliver a clear, benchmarked ranking of trade and geopolitical risk, with mitigating actions and next steps.
Sustainability & CBAM Support
Sustainability is becoming a core part of trade compliance, not a side issue. The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, now in its definitive phase, and the UK's equivalent mechanism due from January 2027, are early examples of a wider shift: carbon and environmental standards are increasingly built directly into market access rules.
What we do
We help clients assess exposure to mechanisms like CBAM,build the supplier data and reporting processes needed to comply, and integratesustainability requirements into broader supply chain strategy, so compliancebecomes a managed, ongoing process rather than a recurring scramble.
Initial consultation and scope definition
Understanding your specific business goals, challenges, and key trade interests, and defining the exact scope of monitoring, including specific countries, product types, and policy areas.
Data integration
Using your internal business data (such as cost of goods sold and supply chain lead times) to identify the trade risks and opportunities most relevant to your business.
Analytical framework alignment
Choosing and adapting the most suitable quantitative and qualitative analysis methods for your needs, incorporating political economy analysis alongside deep technical insight.
KPIs and reporting
Defining performance indicators aligned with your business operations, and establishing customised report formats and communication plans for your different teams.
Continuous collaboration and adaptation
Clear communication channels enable ongoing feedback, so our monitoring and reporting keep adapting as new forms of trade intervention emerge.
Capacity building
Training and workshops to build trade policy literacy within your own teams.
Regulatory compliance
Support in understanding and complying with international trade laws and regulations as they evolve.
Trade policy analysis
In-depth assessment of trade agreements, regulatory frameworks and market trends, feeding directly into your weekly and monthly intelligence.
Frequently asked questions
What is trade intelligence, and why does it need continuous monitoring rather than periodic advice?
Trade intelligence is the continuous reading of the measures that affect your products, markets and suppliers, translated into commercial decisions. It differs from periodic advice because trade policy is no longer episodic: significant developments now occur most days, and one change moves several others. The EU’s melt-and-pour origin test for steel, in force from October 2026, illustrates the point; a single rule reshapes safeguard quotas, CBAM defaults, recycled-content costs and preference eligibility at once. Firms that see a change early trace it through the different impacts.
How is Goyder different?
Most trade advice describes a measure and stops. Goyder works to quantify exposure and is built for continuity rather than one-off projects. Three points distinguish the work. First, judgements are sized in revenue terms against your trade flows, not narrated. Second, six years representing the UK at the WTO, UN and OECD means measures are read the way those who draft them intend. Third, delivery is tailored to the needs.
What do you deliver?
Delivery is framed around four connected services: horizon scanning so measures are seen first; exposure analysis that sizes tariff, non-tariff and compliance impact in revenue terms; strategic and regulatory advice with a clear recommendation; and capability building for teams that want to run more themselves. On a standing retainer, the rhythm is a daily scan, weekly triage, a monthly executive briefing and a quarterly review, mapped to your exposure register. Formats suit how your team works.
Can you help us build our own in-house trade intelligence function?
Yes. Where exposure is permanent, an owned capability can be cheaper and faster than a standing retainer for routine work, and Goyder is structured to build it. A phased engagement runs over roughly eighteen weeks: map the exposure, design the operating model and decision rights, equip it with sources, templates and an exposure register, then embed through a parallel run, training and handover. The function operates a five-stage pipeline, signal to triage, assessment, decision and monitoring, on a fixed cadence. Ownership transfers to your team. Goyder then remains the specialist escalation partner for quantification, interpretation and the harder calls.
Can you support supply chain and trade due diligence obligations?
Yes, from a trade and exposure standpoint. Due-diligence regimes now condition market access, so we monitor them and map where they touch your corridors and suppliers. Coverage includes a range of rapidly developing supply chain regulations including carbon border adjustment mechanisms, deforestation, supply chain due diligence and forced labour. We identify the origin, traceability and content evidence a measure demands, and assess the cost of non-conformity.
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