CENTER GROUP

Your Company's Solution

Our job is to provide solutions to the various problems, difficulties and unexpected situations that arise on entering new markets. Our services cover the following areas: operational optimization, foreign trade, currency exchange markets, administration and financial management for local and international operational loans, commercial strategies development, employment bureau services, commercial representation, e-business and logistics. Should your company have debt collection problems on exported goods, Center Group can offer legal assistance and representation abroad.

CENTER GROUP 
Information is essential to your business

The international marketplace does not allow improvisation and eventually mistakes are paid for with wasted money and time. If you know the difference between "investing" and "spending", our company can offer you essential market studies to fit your needs. On entering new markets, a company must have more than just intuition. For that reason, Center Group has included target market studies and profiles in our range of services. We work with modular systems, searching only what is of interest to your company. This enables Center Group to continue the search for information after the data analysis has indicated real possibilities of success.

CENTER GROUP
Every process can be improved

Our company will take an "x-ray" of your departments and use this material to suggest changes. These suggestions are aimed at the optimization of results, elimination of possible involuntary mistakes and cost reduction. Many companies overlook ways to reduce operational costs due to a lack of knowledge in new markets. The operational auditing is, above all, an important tool for creating internal controls to analyze the profitability of the project in a foreign business environment. We have management resources that determine the profitability of each project, product and client.

CENTER GROUP
Your best choice

Starting your company overseas is feasible, accessible and can be done without having to leave your main market. Center Group will take care of every detail including: discussion of partnership options, scope, search for a business name, possibility of acquiring a resident visa, ways to send capital for the CONSTITUTION of the company, legal housing, outsourced management, creation of the partnership contract, opening of bank accounts, as well as the necessary business certifications.

CENTER GROUP
Courses that Maximize Entrepreneurial Skills through active participation.

We offer various courses that prepare you for the markets where Center Group operates. The courses target business practices in the market where the customer aims to export.  Courses are offered on-site, at chambers of commerce or business associations.

New tools within your reach designed to help you face the challenges.

The modern CEO knows that to get the most from his business operations he must possess the most important of all tools: “Information”.

Understanding this need, we have implemented highly informative courses where attendees participate fully.  The courses are given by Center Group and other associates from the activity sector in question.

The courses can also be given “on-site” for those organizations looking  to make their team more efficient in specific areas, providing the know-how to make the most of new markets.

The main course that Center Group offers is: “How to do business in Brazil”:

* The full course lasts eight hours
* The compact course is four hours long
* Specific discussions are of 1 to 2 hours
* Weekly or monthly courses (duration of the course to
   be determined)

Our Customers and Business Partners:

Contact Us

CENTER GROUP
Your outsourced distribution channel

The traditional form of exporting where the import company receives a letter of credit from a bank is becoming more and more difficult as the issue of the letter becomes increasingly problematic. By using Center Group, you will have your own distribution channel overseas. Your company will avoid intermediaries by going directly to the main distribution network, increase profit margins and therefore reduce the sales price, decrease the risk of outstanding invoices, receive direct feedback from clients, offer just-in-time delivery, protect and develop brand name and have access to international lines of credit. Acquire a state-of-the-art management system - outsource your OWN channel of distribution abroad with Center Group.

RADAR (Rastreamiento de Actuación de los Intervinientes Aduaneros) means “Performance Tracking of Customs Auditors,” and was created by the Brazilian Government in October 2008 under Regulations Nº 225 / 228 and 229.

The formal goal was to increase the control of import operations, but in fact the primary interest was to increase the tariff revenue and, indirectly, encourage imports.

The RADAR procedure involves filling in a “Set Up Requirement Form of the Company’s legal responsible SISCOMEX” that identifies the legal entity, the potential import indicators, export indicators, and the corresponding natural entity as legal responsible of the import/export company.

The RADAR procedure takes usually 30 days, period in which the treasury analyzes the documentation submitted, verifies the company constitution, analyzed data consistency of capital stock, assets and liabilities, and incomes of the legal entity, shareholder’s incomes and assets and liabilities, and also evaluates the compatibility between the economic activity and the operational economic and financial capacities of the legal person.

If there are no inconsistencies in the information submitted, the legal representative of the company should be at the Receita Federal to get the access code to SISCOMEX.

In the event that the Receita Federal have found contradictions in the documentation submitted, the company will be required to submit additional documentation, as the case may be, the company may end up having its National Registry of Legal Entity [CNPJ (Brazil), CUIT (Argentina), TIN (United States)] void.

Spreadsheet of nationalization of an import product, and spreadsheet for estimating local selling price.

In international markets, it is essential to be able to compare the selling price in the local market of a product similar to ours with our selling price.

The first drawback is when we are obliged to compare literally “apples and oranges” , and this is so because it is difficult to establish a comparative bond of a product in dollars and, whose cost is determined in our country of origin, with another local currency product with fixed and variable costs included, and local taxes also considered.

To solve this drawback, Center Group Int. developed two spreadsheets– one for estimating the cost of nationalization of an import product and another one for estimating the local selling price.

The spreadsheet of nationalization of an import product starts from your product FOB price and was created to estimate what the total cost of your product will be at arrival when it reaches the warehouse door of your local potential buyer.
This cost estimate is important so that your potential buyer can compare the cost of the product he is buying at this moment (locally or internationally) with the cost at which he will be able to buy YOUR product.
This spreadsheet estimates and ponders the fiscal credits generated in the product import and explains in detail the fiscal and legal concept of the taxes involved.

This spreadsheet of the nationalization of an import product is the base for making the other spreadsheet: the estimate of the local selling price of a product.

This second spreadsheet has double use:
The first one is orientated to the price at which your company might market your product in case it sets up in the target country commercially or industrially.
The second one is orientated to cooperate with your potential customer in order to help him estimate the price at which you might sell your product in case of making the operation.