CETA opened the door on 15 July 2026. It did not introduce you to anyone, prove your origin position, or get your product past a buyer who already has a supplier he trusts.
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Entering India, the obstacle is the system — the entity, the regulator, the compliance map. Going the other way, it inverts. Incorporating a UK company takes a day and costs less than the flight. Nothing about that tells you whether anyone will buy.
Entity and structure, FDI route, sectoral caps, certification, tax. Get these right and the market is open to you. Get them wrong and the position never holds. See India Entry →
Registration is trivial. What is not trivial: displacing an incumbent supplier, evidencing your origin claim, carrying DDP terms, and holding a buyer relationship after the first order.
From 1 January 2027 the UK applies its own carbon border mechanism to steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers and hydrogen — a separate regime from the EU's. Anyone pricing a three-year UK contract on today's landed cost is already wrong.
Every multi-year contract signed between now and then is signed into that regime. The pricing decision is being made this quarter, whether or not it is being made deliberately.
The companion social security agreement took effect the same day, with the exemption raised to five years. Putting your own person on the ground in Britain just became materially cheaper.
Most companies arrive asking about duty and leave having changed their mind about the route to market.
Is there a question here worth paying to answer? Check eligibility, estimate the duty saving, and test whether your origin position would survive verification.
Export Position: is our claim and our price defensible? One line, delivered straight — including the line that says don't.
How exactly do we enter, and with whom? Route, compliance path, landed cost, and named buyers or importers who will take the meeting.
Are we actually selling? We hold the relationship after the introduction, through to repeat orders and terms.
Inside the UK Government's trade and investment presence in India.
Combined across the founding team in trade, investment and market entry.
Operated commercially at both ends — not advising on one from the other.
We read a bill of materials before a market report. Origin, costing and capacity behave as one problem, so we read them as one — built on automotive, EV, hydrogen and advanced manufacturing work alongside Indian OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers.
Roughly half the enquiries we take do not need us, and we say so in the first conversation. We take no success fees: you are paying for independent judgement, not for a yes.
We introduce where we hold the relationship. We do not claim access to HMRC, CBIC or DBT that we do not have.
Decision-maker access and B2B matchmaking at India's major industry expos — meetings originated, not stands attended.
Sector research reducing a broad field to the specific segments leadership could act on.
Senior stakeholder engagement across industry and government, convened at the moment it mattered.
Named clients and detailed references are shared directly in conversation, as confidentiality allows.
We keep our engagements deliberately few, and Corridor 01 capacity is limited each quarter. If you don't recognise yourself above, we will say so in the first conversation rather than take the fee.
If the Navigator tells you the corridor does not work for your product, that is the most useful thing we will do all week.
The more you give us here, the more useful the conversation is. Every submission is read by a partner — not a form queue — and answered within two working days.
Reviews are scheduled in the order received, and we hold a limited number each quarter. The 2027 carbon deadline is not moving.