Goodstotrade.com trading platform

Start your international trading business without registering your own legal entity.

Use the available existing companies in reputable jurisdictions, track-record and bank accounts. Quickly sign contracts, issue invoices, settle payments and make profit.

Focus on your core business, not on maintaining corporate structures.

Companies of the Goodstotrade.com platform, registered in Estonia (EU), Switzerland (non- EU) and Turkey (non- EU) have all the necessary features for international trading operations:

Bank accounts in the country of jurisdiction and with international banks
Office (not mass address)
Local directors and shareholders
Local employees
VAT number
EORI number
Favourable financial history, audited accounting reсords for several years
Website

Advantages

What use the service of Goodstotrade.com platform
rather than register your own company?

Save money

no incorporation costs
no costs related to substance creation: office rent, payroll, corporate identity and website;
no costs related to bank account opening, which can be problematic due to non-residency.
no liquidation costs when the business project is complete.

Save time

Start trading within a few days.
Save time on substance creation: no need to search for office, local staff and partners in the country of jurisdiction
Save time on bank account opening
Save time on reporting: no need to explain your transactions to accountants and auditors

Avoid risks

When creating your own corporate structures, the beneficiary (or their employees) have to act as the director of a foreign company, since nominee service is now a thing of the past, therefore:

you can count on the professionalism of our directors and their knowledge of the laws of the country of jurisdiction;
We ensure professional communication with banks — if a bank has questions related to a transaction, an explanation will be provided by the specialists with extensive experience and understanding of the issues crucial to a bank in assessing a client. This is important because banks consider international trade and intermediation activities to be high-risk activities.

How it works

the client shall act on the basis of an Agency Agreement;

as an Agent, the client will provide the companies of Goodstotrade.com platform with business opportunities to purchase and sell goods from and to interested international partners;

the Goodstotrade.com shall buy and sell respective goods;

the generated profits shall be is paid out to the client in the form of agency fees;

description of the project

description of goods, photos, specifications, internet links
unit of quantity (kg, tn, item etc.)
volumes of supply per month in units, per year
purchase price and sale price per unit, currency
suppliers: names, jurisdictions, websites (if any)
customers: names, jurisdictions, websites (if any)
drafts of contracts if applicable
goods movement chart
what transportation documents will be presented (CMR, airway bill, bill of lading, etc)
when will transportation documents be presented (days after/before date of payment to supplier)
cash flow chart
information about the natural person–initiator of the project/agent (name, email, telephone, passport copy, CV)
details of the persons authorised to give instructions and receive information about the project (maximum 2): names, emails, telephones;
documents of agent (passport copy, CV), if legal person, additionally - corporate documents of company and documents, confirming the authorities of the agent;
documents, confirming the authorities of the counterparty’s representative to conclude the supply contracts and passport copy;
written instructions for receiving and sending payments;
documents for each incoming and outgoing payment (contract, invoice);
transport documents — should be submitted in order of their appearance according to the project description;
information and additional documents to address the questions that the bank may have.
signing of balance confirmations with counterparties upon request

Pricing

We prepare a personalized offer for each client that takes into account the nature of the business and of the project.

Approximate rates are

0,75% from turnover

10% from profit

but not less than €1,000

consulting on logistical and legal structures of the transactions;
signing the contracts by the authorised representative of the company, sending scan-copies to counterparties and persons authorised by the client via email;
accepting the payments from customers, preparing and approving the payments via banking;
communication with banks, answering compliance questions;
reconciling cash flow on the regular basis;
analysing and amending the contracts and supporting legal documents related to the transactions that are submitted by the client;
keeping of accounting records for all transactions; compiling and audit of financial statements;
submitting financial reports and uncertified corporate documents, as well as documents of beneficiaries and directors for the KYC procedure with counterparties;
payment of agreed agency fees.

accepting and making payments without actual movement of goods, confirmed by the authentic transport documents — we do not conduct such transactions, this is not negotiable;
searching for clients and suppliers;
receiving and sending payments to the third parties that are not suppliers, customers, or contractual agents (these roles should be discussed at the start of the project).
Securing of export and import licences, permissions from state authorities etc.

spedition of original documents;
submission of certified corporate documents;
preparation of contracts and additional documents related to transactions;
translation of documents;
logistics services and customs clearance;
participation in negotiations with customers and suppliers

Timing

Analysis of a new project:

up to 10 working days from the submission of the project description.

Analysis of the primary agreements according to the confirmed description of the project:

up to 3 working days from the submission of the contract drafts.

Signing of the current contracts in the project framework:

up to 24 hours from the submission of the contract draft.

Implementation of the payments:

up to 24 hours from the submission of the documents — during banking days.

Examples of cooperation with clients

Example №1

Goods: agricultural goods.
Suppliers: Ukrainian wholesale trading companies.
Customers: Swiss based global merchant firm
Delivery: railway transportation, FOB (Odessa, Ukraine)
Cash flow: Swiss customers made a prepayment to the account a Goodstotrade.com platform company. The company paid the suppliers and transferred the agreed to the bank account of the client according to the agency agreement.

Example №2

Goods: electric components.
Supplier: Swiss manufacturer.
Customer: Russian manufacturing company.
Supplies: auto transport, from the warehouse, Switzerland, EXW.
Cash flow: the customer made a prepayment to the a Goodstotrade.com platform company, which paid the suppliers and arranged VAT refund. As a result, the Russian company procured the goods from the manufacturer and not from a regional distributor.