REGULATION & MARKET ACCESS

Connecting trade activity to the rules that allow it.

Connecting trade activity to the rules that allow it.

Linking a cross-border trading platform to the regulations and standards that determine market access.

Client

Cross-border trading platform

PROJECT OVERVIEW

A trading platform operating across African markets needed its commercial activity connected to the regulatory and market-access requirements shaping where its materials could be sold.

A trading platform operating across African markets needed its commercial activity connected to the regulatory and market-access requirements shaping where its materials could be sold.

THE CONTEXT

Trade decisions and regulation were moving on separate tracks

Trade decisions and regulation were moving on separate tracks

Trade decisions and regulatory requirements are often managed separately, so opportunities are missed or market access is put at risk before anyone sees it coming.

A connected view

01

Trade activity

02

Rules of origin

03

Sanctions screening

04

Market access

BYAS’s intervention

IE.BYAS connected the platform's trading activity to the regulations, standards and market requirements governing how its materials could be produced, traded and accessed.

IE.BYAS connected the platform's trading activity to the regulations, standards and market requirements governing how its materials could be produced, traded and accessed.

01

Diagnose the system

02

Structure the requirements

03

Shape the way forward

What changed

A clearer path to new markets.

1

1

A clearer view of which regulations applied to which trade flows

2

2

Market-access requirements built into trading decisions, not discovered after the fact

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3

A stronger basis for expanding into new markets

In summary

Market access became a planning input, not a risk discovered at the border.

Market access became a planning input, not a risk discovered at the border.

Start a conversation

Better value chains start with clearer systems.

Start a conversation

Better value chains start with clearer systems.

Start a conversation

Better value chains start with clearer systems.

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Supply chain consulting for organisations that want to see further, move faster and grow stronger.

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