Routes to Market Series: A to B via the four Cs

01 July 2024

Getting goods from A to B can be a tricky task, particularly when those goods are being sold across borders. There’s a lot to think about: from broad issues, like how to structure your supply chain to ensure the greatest level of efficiency, to the nitty gritty of how much import duty to pay when your goods arrive at their destination.

In the UK, the positions on competition law, consumer law, and customs taxes originally stem from EU legislation; however, since Brexit (and throughout 2024, even despite the early general election), the UK government has introduced legislation which cements the UK’s reputation as an exciting place to do business, including, for example, the introduction of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (which aims to regulate competition in digital markets and provide additional protections for consumers).

Here at Lewis Silkin, we’re well-versed in the nuances of these new pieces of legislation, as well as being commercially astute, business-focussed partners to some of the biggest players at all levels of the supply chain. Indeed, we’ve helped countless businesses to navigate the regulatory requirements of establishing and maintaining their routes to market into the UK and, in this series of articles, our experts discuss some of the key topics which you might want to consider when doing the same.

Contracting

In our first article, Fleur Chenevix-Trench and Alan Hunt discuss how to create, and contract for, the most effective supply chain.