About us
We are a company dedicated to the advice and integral management in foreign trade and customs.
We have offices and representatives with every Customs Administration of the country.
Our mission
We strive to satisfy the needs and reasonable expectations of clients, providing them with essential services in International Trade and Logistics, aimed at enhancing their competitiveness, in an efficient and profitable manner.
Organized in the year 1995 by Gabriel Cimas (Licensed Customs Broker), our company has carried out its activity continuously in the entire national territory.
Our staff, comprising highly qualified experts and technicians is passionate about satisfying the client, and fosters continuous improvement within an ethic environment of trust, reliability and confidentiality.
Comprehensive Management Policy
KNOW our clients and other stakeholders with an impact on the achievement of our goals, listen to them and DEEPLY UNDERSTAND THEIR NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS.
Constant improvement of OUR STAFF’S COMPETENCES, providing a suitable framework for technical, professional and human development.
Within this framework, we have adopted a ZERO TOLERANCE TO BRIBERY practices as regards members of our organization, or by members of our organization, and/ or strategic suppliers in connection with other agents. WE ARE COMMITTED TO COMPLY WITH ANTI-BRIBERY LAWS applicable to our organization, and to create and maintain safe channels for filing complaints, while ensuring confidentiality, reception and ethical treatment to avoid retaliation by the Ethics Committee
FULL SATISFACTION OF OUR CLIENTS, offering and performing, in accordance with our Mission, services which fulfill their demands, contemplating applicable legal and regulatory requirements, the requirements of other stakeholders and the values of our organization, seeking to PROVIDE THE BEST SOLUTION tailored to our client’s needs in relation to international trade.
Demand our STRATEGIC SUPPLIERS and SUB-CONTRACTORS supplies and services, enabling us to ensure the BEST SOLUTIONS to our clients.
We encourage an environment of TRANSPARENT EXCHANGE. We promote internally, with our clients and strategic suppliers, the prevention of acts of CORRUPTION, SMUGGLING, TRAFFICKING OF COUNTERFEIT GOODS, ARMS TRAFFICKING, and acts that allow the FINANCING of TERRORISM, MONEY LAUNDERING, DRUG TRAFFICKING, as well as any other type of UNLAWFUL BUSINESS. To this end, we develop safety procedures IN OUR OPERATIONS and in the relationship with our business partners.
Clients can rely on us with confidence since their international trade business will be part of our own business. This is the backbone of our ETHICS and PROFESSIONALISM.
Develop at all levels the ABILITY FOR THE RECOGNITION AND ASSESSMENT OF RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES, as well as the IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIONS to address them.
The CONFIDENTIALITY of all the information involved in our services is only limited where suspicions of potential offences (such as money laundering, corruption and customs offences) arise, in which case such information will be promptly communicated to the competent authorities, offering them all the relevant background and documents.
Engage SUPPLIERS IN LINE with our “Management Policy” and “Code of Ethics and Behavior”, interacting with them in an effective manner and in accordance with ETHICAL STANDARDS ethical standards in order to accomplish our SHARED GOALS.
Promote a CULTURE OF SAFETY AND SUSTAINABILITY in our organization and supply chain, the CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT of our PROCESSES and the INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.
Management Policy
This Policy is periodically reviewed as part of the “Integrated Management System Review” by Management, as well as in the event of an acquisition or merger with other organizations or other changes in the scope of the business that could affect its continuity.
Below you can download the latest revision of it, approved on January 2, 2024 by Gabriel Cimas, CEO.
If you have any concerns regarding the detection of any potential deviation by any of the members of our firm regarding our Code of Ethics and Conduct, and as set forth in our Management Policy, please inform us. You may complete the following form anonymously.
If you have any concerns regarding the detection of any potential deviation by any of the members of our firm regarding our Code of Ethics and Conduct, and as set forth in our Management Policy, please inform us. You may complete the following form anonymously.
When providing our customs clearance services, which are carried out in strict compliance with applicable legal rules and regulations, we receive the professional support of the international company PwC Uruguay (PricewaterhouseCoopers), which examines the documentation on a regular basis.
In order to protect our customers’ information confidentiality, we have included in the corresponding contract the required clauses for such purposes.
When providing our customs clearance services, which are carried out in strict compliance with applicable legal rules and regulations, we receive the professional support of the international company PwC Uruguay (PricewaterhouseCoopers), which examines the documentation on a regular basis.
In order to protect our customers’ information confidentiality, we have included in the corresponding contract the required clauses for such purposes.
Comprehensive Management System
Our company has implemented and keeps a comprehensive management system, covering the following issues:
Quality Management System
Certificate of conformity with respect to standard ISO 9001:2015 by UNIT (Uruguayan Institute of Technical Rules), IQNet (The International Certification Network) and AENOR (Spanish Association of Standardization), since 2004.
Security Management System for the supply chain
AEO - Authorized Economic Operator
Certified by the National Customs Board, on the basis of the SAFE Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate the Global Trade of the World Customs Organization (WCO), fostering the development of alliances between customs and the private sector through relationships of trust, and facilitating agreements of mutual acknowledgement between customs of beneficiary countries and other trade blocs.
Scope of certifications
Quality Management System
Comprehensive advice on international trade, coordination of logistic services, customs clearances (import, export, transit, temporary admission, simplified and GEX files) and supplies on board (reexport – supplies).
Security Management System for the supply chain
Comprehensive advice on international trade, customs clearances (import, export, transit, temporary admission, simplified and GEX files) and supplies on board (reexport – supplies).
AEO – Authorized Economic Operator National Customs Board
Comprehensive advice on international trade, coordination of logistic services, customs clearances (import, export, transit, temporary admission, simplified and GEX files) and supplies on board (reexport – supplies).