There's a lot of talk these days about "Outsourcing" (the contracting of non-essential services to third-parties) and "Insourcing" (the ownership and management of a given function within the company). At GHY, we believe there's a better way; a third path where a company collaboratively shares the responsibility for their customs and international transportation services with a third-party.

GHY's TradeSource offering provides Canadian importers with the best of both worlds: lowering transaction processing costs while not giving up access to Customs expertise -- a factor that is increasingly more important as the Canadian Border Services Agency shifts its efforts to compliance verification.

You are able to take advantage of the economies of scale and significant investment in software, network, communications, technology, and release infrastructure that we have made--without the degree of capital outlay that would be required if you were to set this up and manage it independently.

We will manage training and orientation, be available on an ongoing basis to your existing customs staff as required for operational or technical support.

Your staff's time will be highly leveraged as they become more efficient and productive in using the technology tools we will provide, thus increasing their value to your company.

We will provide access to training and professional development for your staff, in terms of growing their knowledge of customs-related matters, effective use of technology, and expanding their role to include other functions as you deem appropriate.

You would have access to our operational resources during periods of vacation or illness.

We will connect and train you on the various features of our technology to draw down management level reports and summaries, which can be useful to among other things: identify trends, isolate opportunities for potential cost reduction and areas of potential risk, measure productivity, analyze financial information germane to trade data, etc.

We will provide you with an unrivaled knowledge resource base for you and your staff to draw upon for specific issues as they arise, and to provide expertise on more complex trade-related issues. Our senior trade consultants will be available to your company at all levels to address any issue involving the movement of your parts or finished goods across the border into and out of Canada.

To address your future needs, we will work to help you understand the changing and dynamic regulatory environment, to ensure you are connecting with and adapting to all available opportunities to reduce cost, mitigate risk, and gain efficiencies.