Compliance & risk
Trade, Sanctions & Export Controls
The UAE and Saudi Arabia are global trade hubs, which makes their businesses subject to several trade regimes at once. We help clients trade confidently through them.
Markets: UAE · Saudi Arabia · Egypt · United States · Delivered through LexTend
Our global trade compliance practice covers UAE, US, EU and UK export controls and sanctions, dual-use classification, customs valuation and origin, and the new generation of Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements whose preferential access depends on documentation most businesses have not yet built.
What we do
- Sanctions and export-control compliance programmes and screening
- Product classification and licensing
- Customs, valuation and rules-of-origin advice
- Free-trade agreement eligibility and documentation
- Tariff impact assessment and contract remediation
- Voluntary disclosures and enforcement responses
Questions clients ask
Straight answers first.
Do US export controls apply to a UAE company?
They can, where goods, software or technology of US origin or with US content are involved, and where US persons or the US financial system are touched. A screening process that reflects this is standard for any Gulf business trading in controlled sectors.
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Tell us the decision you need to make. We will reduce it to the points that matter and give you a recommendation on each.