Curated by Vinod Kumar Jain & Amit Jain · All Frontier Global · free, no login
Trade compliance fails in predictable places, and almost all of them are about process rather than knowledge: who decided, on what basis, and where it is written down. Score yourself honestly against twelve statements covering the principle areas that stay stable while the rules around them change. This is an informal self-check, not an audit and not a legal opinion — nothing here is verified and no regulation is reproduced.
What the areas mean
Export control — whether what you ship is subject to control at all, and whether anyone owns that question inside the business.
Sanctions screening — a repeatable process with evidence, not a search someone remembers doing. The sanctions routing guide covers where to look.
Records — retention for the period your jurisdiction requires, and retrievability, which is the part that fails under audit.
Classification and origin — decisions made on a documented basis rather than inherited. The HS structure and the rules-of-origin caveats are the starting points.
Valuation — declaring what is actually paid or payable, including the additions the rules require.
Licences and training — knowing what needs one, tracking expiry, and making sure the people signing know what they are certifying.
What this score is not
It is an informal self-check, not an audit or a legal opinion. Nobody here verifies anything; you answer and the browser adds it up.
The scoring is ours and deliberately crude — Yes 1, Partly 0.5, No 0, equal weights. Real exposure is not an average: one uncontrolled export or one missed listing outweighs a good score everywhere else.
No regulation text is reproduced and no jurisdiction is assumed. The statements are principle areas in our own words. What actually applies to you depends on where you are, what you ship and to whom.
A high score means your process is worth documenting, not that you are compliant.
Sources
None embedded and none fetched. The principle areas above are the estate’s own paraphrase of what compliance programmes are generally expected to cover; no statute, regulation or standard is quoted. For what applies to you, use your own jurisdiction’s customs and export-control authority and take advice from counsel.