Top-8 Proven Initiatives to Make Your Company Trade Tariff and Future Proof

September 2025: The key lessons from the last 12 months include:

• A geo-economic fragmented global landscape is fact of business life.
• Worldwide duties and trade barriers will stay as well as uncertainty & unpredictability.
• Competitiveness of your company is still key in terms of landed costs, innovating products, and talent development.

So, what are you going to do, what is your game plan for the next years? Based on our advise to companies in the US, Europe and Asia and own recent research, BCI Global shares with you the top ranked 8 Proven Initiatives.

The top ranked 8 Proven & Golden Initiatives are:

• Keep on focusing on your company’s competitiveness/performance by optimizing for landed costs & innovating products
• Increase end-to-end visibility by using control towers
• Optimize your manufacturing & distribution footprint with scenario planning and digital twins
• Accelerate the development of the US market… and the non-US markets
• Diversify your supply base to reduce supply risks and high dependencies
• As part of a region-for-region strategy, increase production capacity in the US by expanding current production sites or establish greenfield operations and take advantage of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill
• Become the employer of choice for the talent you need
• Guarantee business continuity 2.0 by 24/7 monitoring of trade & investment climate changes

If  you are coping with one or more of the challenges mentioned then feel free to request to download our recent webinar with concrete frameworks, examples and take-aways.

In this webinar special attention is given to the following topics:

• The impacts of the Court of Appeals ruling end of August that the US import tariffs are illegal
• How to make well-based location decisions for new operations?
• What are the new emerging hot spots in Mexico and South East Asia?
• Gaining benefits from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act
• Assessments of regional labor markets (costs; skills; availability; regulations)
• How to optimize benefitting from high incentives and low taxes?

Presented by:

• René Buck, CEO at BCI Global, contact René at René.Buck@bciglobal.com
• Johan Beukema, Managing Partner at BCI Global, contact Johan at johan.beukema@bciglobal.com
• Patrick Haex, Managing Partner at BCI Global, contact Patrick at Patrick.Haex@bciglobal.com
• Pieter de Wit, Partner at BCI, contact Pieter at pieter.wit@bciglobal.com