Everything between a decision and a delivered container.
Five pillars, in both directions of trade. Most clients start with one and add the others as the trade develops. Every engagement is priced and agreed before work begins.
The five pillars
Counterparties
- Buyer and supplier search
- Distributor and agent appointment
- Company due diligence and screening
- Factory audit, on site and photographed
- Pre-shipment inspection before payment
Compliance abroad
- Conformity certification for the Russian market
- Indian product approvals for Russian goods
- Russian labelling and product marking
- Veterinary and phytosanitary permits
- Authorised representative in either country
Documentation & customs
- Export and import documentation
- Classification and duty assessment
- Customs clearance, both countries
- Certified translation and legalisation
- Bilingual contracts
Exhibitions
- Represented exhibitor — we staff the stand
- Stand booking, build and interpreting
- Buyer meetings booked before you land
- Trade delegations, both directions
- Standing buying and sales agency
Getting paid
- Payment route structuring
- Contract and payment terms
- Escrow for a first trade
- Freight coordination and insurance
- Market entry research and landed cost
Detailed service pages
Each of these sets out exactly what the service covers, what you receive and how it is priced.
Authorised representative
Several Indian schemes require a registered local entity to hold a product approval. We can be that entity — independent of your distributor, which keeps your channel options…
RepresentationBuying agent
For companies buying repeatedly from the other country. We are appointed by you, paid by you, and act only for you — which is what makes it different from an introduction.
Compliance abroadCertification for the Russian market
The most common reason an Indian export plan for Russia stalls. We establish which route applies to your product, what it costs and how long it takes — before you quote a…
CounterpartiesCounterparty verification
Before you ship anything or pay anything, one question decides everything else: is this company what it says it is. We answer it locally, in the counterparty’s own…
DocumentationDocumentation & customs
The unglamorous layer that decides whether a container moves or sits. We prepare it on both sides of the route, so nothing depends on two unconnected agents agreeing with…
Compliance abroadIndian product approvals
For a Russian exporter, Indian market access is rarely blocked by tariffs. It is blocked by product certification, a local representative requirement, and labelling rules…
Getting paidPayment routing
The question that ends most India–Russia conversations, answered before the contract rather than after the container has sailed.
CounterpartiesPre-shipment inspection
The last point at which a problem is cheap. We inspect against the agreed specification while the goods are still in the seller’s country and the money has not moved.
Compliance abroadRussian labelling & marking
More consignments are stopped over labelling than any other single issue, and it is entirely preventable. We prepare artwork that is checked in Russia, not translated in…