Technology

• Technology transfers: exports don’t necessarily leave the warehouse. Source code, technical data, designs, and know-how can all be subject to controls.
• AI and cloud access: where does controlled technology actually sit – and who can reach it? Distributed teams and cloud infrastructure make these questions harder to answer.
• Export controls: sensitive technologies can face licensing, destination, and access restrictions that directly affect commercial opportunities.
• End-use risk: your customer may not be your end-user. Businesses must understand who ultimately receives their technology, and what they intend to do with it.
• Tariffs and customs: seemingly technical decisions around classification, origin, or valuation can reshape landed cost, sourcing strategy, and margin.
• People and access: recruitment can be a trade control issue. Remote working, overseas teams, and collaborative R&D create overlooked technology transfer exposure.
• Regulatory change: geopolitics redraw the commercial landscape quickly. Today’s viable customer, supplier, or market may carry a different risk tomorrow.

You can’t predict every change in policy. You can decide how prepared you are for when it happens.

The strongest technology companies build trade compliance into the way they operate: who can access critical technology, how decisions are made, where risks are escalated, and how quickly the organisation responds when the rules do change.

That is how governance protects innovation, rather than getting in its way.