Partners
The Origin Experts Group is privileged to partner with the following market leaders to deliver the world’s most advanced origin determination software:
3CE Technologies
Established in 1999, 3CE Technologies is a private, software development company based in Montreal, Canada. 3CE is focused exclusively on solving the chronic problems associated with the complexity and unacceptable high error rates in commodity classification..
The company’s flagship application - eponymously called “3CE” - is widely recognized as the smartest, user-friendliest and most accurate HS classification tool available. 3CE is recognized for its prodigious ability to read and understand everyday commercial commodity descriptions and automatically assign their proper HS code.
3CE tools and trade data services have been adopted by a variety of private and public sector organizations worldwide, including the United States Department of Commerce, the European Commission, Canada Border Services Agency, and the United Kingdom Department for International Trade.
3CE is cited in the World Customs Organization’s “HS Classification Handbook” and its revised compendium on “How to Build a Single Window Environment”. In 2016, 3CE’s HS classification tool (marketed commercially by Thomson-Reuters as “Global HS”), was named “Best Content Search and Discovery Solution” by the U.S. Software and Information Industry Association.
Rideau Potomac Strategy Group
Rideau Potomac Strategy Group is a cross-border consultancy that advises clients on trade negotiations, supply chain issues, government affairs, regulatory solutions, technology challenges and geopolitical developments.
RPSG President Eric Miller has intensive international experience which includes:
Advising, negotiating with and developing projects with more than 40 government in Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America on trade and economic policy matters. This includes having advised on half-a-dozen free trade agreements, including four U.S. bilateral agreements.
Serving as Senior Strategic Advisor to the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation.
Member of the Canadian negotiating team that developed the U.S.-Canada Beyond the Border (Trade Facilitation) Agreement.
Represented Canada’s Department of Industry in the United States. Represented the Department’s interests before the Administration and Congress on U.S. political, economic and technology issues.
Trade Facilitation Services
Established in 1998 and headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Trade Facilitation Services provides practical solutions that address the most difficult problems faced by importers and exporters.
The company’s services include technical trade fundamentals such as customs procedures, customs verification audits and pre-audits, valuation, duty and tax deferral programs and Harmonized System Classification, combined with significant activity in trade policy matters including trade facilitation and the security agenda.
The company has also worked on a wide range of trade, customs and origin-related technical assistance and capacity building development projects for various international and regional institutions including the Inter-American Development Bank, GIZ, the World Bank, the International Trade Centre, and the United Nations Centre for Trade and Development.