Knowledge base
Plain-English guides written for the working importer, not the compliance consultant. Every claim cites a primary source — the regulation, the implementing act, the Commission notice. No paywalls, no “register to read” gates.
Published

Six product categories, four numbers per row, ten-year audit trail. The CBAM filing process for importers with no compliance team and a real Tuesday-morning shipment.
11 min read · Mar 14, 2026

Two amendments later, 2026/2027 binding dates, plot-level geolocation. The seven commodities, the country benchmarking, the filing chain after Regulation (EU) 2025/2650.
14 min read · May 3, 2026

The General Rules of Interpretation in plain English, real disputes (Toy Biz, Converse, Subway), binding rulings, and what to do on Tuesday morning when customs disagrees.
13 min read · May 10, 2026

The October 2025 simplification, the live definitive period, and the December 2025 proposal to extend CBAM to ~180 downstream product lines. Follow-up to the original CBAM article.
11 min read · May 17, 2026

How DPP rules become law — ESPR plus sectoral regulations plus delegated acts. The Battery Passport (Feb 2027), the Toy Safety Regulation (Aug 2030), and what's still in working-plan limbo.
13 min read · May 24, 2026

Since 13 December 2024, every consumer product on the EU market needs a responsible person established in the Union. What an AR actually has to do — recall management, post-market monitoring, complaint registers — and what the cheap end of the AR-as-a-service market doesn't.
12 min read · May 25, 2026
Reference
Glossary of EU trade-compliance terms — plain-English definitions for CBAM, EUDR, GPSR, DPP, HS, CN, BTI, MRV, and the rest. Every entry has a stable anchor URL for direct citation.
In the works
Drafted, sourced, and queued — published as the primary sources settle. Want one of these moved to the front of the queue? Tell us.

The eleven terms, who pays for what at which point, and the three changes from 2010. With the diagrams the ICC charges €40 to print.
8 min read · Coming soon

UCP 600, the documents that cause 70% of rejections, and how to negotiate an LC that actually pays. With every clause translated out of bank-speak.
12 min read · Coming soon

What each field on a B/L means, the difference between an original and a sea waybill, why "to order" matters, and the times your bank will reject one.
8 min read · Coming soon