Our History

We are a third generation consulting business operating under the name EXIMDO.  Incorporated in 1927 as Leading Forwarders, Inc. it started business in 1924 as H.L. Greene and Company.

Over the decades companies started to realize that international trade was not merely an issue of sourcing, but an important component of their business, tax, compliance and economic strategy.  In order to support that change, our business changed, from rendering advice, coupled with logistics, to rendering solutions and advice independent of an interest in the logistics.

Built on over 80 years of experience servicing importers and exporters through customs brokerage, freight forwarding, logistics, and consulting services, today, supported by a team of seasoned Technical Advisors, we focus on management issues of businesses involved in the trade in goods.

The term EXIMDO comes from an updating of the term EXIM or EX-IM commonly referring to EX[port] – IM[port] by adding DO[mestic] to reflect the increasingly multifaceted nature of business. Trade Solutions reflects our goals: not just to provide recommendations, but to work with our clients to implement workable solutions.

Our Services

We provide a full range of services aimed at helping companies involved in international trade to meet their obligations to comply with the multitude of laws affecting their trade business as well as optimizing the opportunities afforded by those laws.

Our goal is not just to provide our clients with answers that sit on a shelf, but to work with them to make sure they are effectively implemented and followed up.

We are not a law firm, although some of our principles are lawyers. There are times where legal services are appropriate or necessary. Our goal is to provide practical solutions for businesses involved in international trade to minimize the circumstances where those legal services become a necessity as a result of a failure to implement good business practices.

As important as it is to provide solutions, we believe that educating our clients to identify both problems and opportunities is an essential part of implementing those solutions. This includes providing educational resources, from in-house programs to online video and audio progams and downloadable books, booklets, and executive briefings. Our Knowledge Index is specially designed to help those involved in international trade to locate, access or purchase those resources online.