Trade Compliance Can No Longer Operate as a Back-Office Function

Executive thesis. Trade compliance is no longer a back-office checkpoint. It is an operating constraint that can approve, block, reroute, delay, or reprice physical supply-chain activity.
Compliance decisions are supply chain decisions
Restricted-party screening, classification, export controls, licensing, origin, and sanctions may be governed by compliance teams, but their effects reach far beyond that function. They can determine whether a supplier can be used, whether a product can move, how