EurTradeNet is not one private company under a concrete brand; it is a unique knowledge network grouping together key players in the foreign trade sector, those ones serving the information handling and communication with customs authorities in their own country, and implementing in real the new regulations and directives coming from the European Commission and other relevant international bodies.

ETN has a valuable and complementary vision on the needs and requirements of the different actors they serve Europe-wide (importers and expeorters, forwarders and integrators, sea and air freight) and promotes the use of unified interchanging standards to approach trans-National environments through multi-entity professional collaborations.

The global institutions, namely the World Customs Organisation  and DG TAXUD at the European Commission, have acknowledged the differential expertise of EurTradeNet, being invited more and more to take active part of their discussion fora and working groups.

Since 2008 EurTradeNet is an active participant at the internal groups of the WCO, the most relevant ones being the Information Management Sub-Committee and the Data Model Project Team.

And from January 2009 EurTradeNet is a stable member of The Trade Contact Group, organised by DG TAXUD as the forum to exchange with the traders' associations the new concepts being analysed at the EC level and the customs regulations to be implemented Europe-wide.

This way the ETN partners upgrade their prestige from the local to the global level, having a high&early voice on the re-design of all customs matters, the new electronic procedures and supporting tools to deploy in the EU.