EurTradeNet is not a private company under a concrete brand; it is a global knowledge network of key players of the customs and trade sector, having a valuable and complementary vision on the needs and requirements of the different actors they serve (importers and exporters, forwarders and integrators, traders in its wider sense).
The customs procedures in Europe are very much localized, thus a trader that handles customs in various territories must face the challenge of meeting the requirements for all those different countries. There is a real market demand: trading companies need an integrated service that allows them to exchange customs-related information in a multi-entity environment and across borders.
All the customs-related service providers or CRSPs have their own software and networking solutions at the National level, for years they have served the traders in their country (importers and exporters, forwarders and logistics operators, rail and road transportation entities, sea and airfreight), preparing all electronic information and connecting them to the Customs National Authorities back and forth. The ETN Alliance is organised around partners and members (fully certified CRSPs) that market their services with their own local resources, constituting EurTradeNet a distributed services structure in every European territory. Thus, nowadays through the ETN Network and its National and Regional gateways, the ETN partners are also able to serve international environments (branches of the same multinational or business partners abroad) thanks to the collaboration with their neighbour CRSPs.
The value proposition of EurTradeNet is based on having strong partner companies in all EU member states, leading CRSP dealing with customs handling and the local singularities in its own country. To allow full coverage of the market space, a core ETN partner also acts as the National gateway that incorporates its local competitors, other CRSPs serving their corporate applications to other customers.
All ETN partners and members are strongly benefited by EurTradeNet as their unique “ear and voice” at the global level. Completing step-by-step the ETN common standards and solutions as new EC directives are defined (and end customers get convinced for re-innovation), all the specialised information is promptly available to the ETN partners and members for their effective use in their own market place.
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