Who the company is
Registration extract, ownership, ultimate beneficial owner, sanctions and adverse media screening, and confirmation that the person we deal with can sign.
Physical commodity trading has a documentation culture that exists for one reason: nobody can afford to trust a stranger with a cargo. We follow it rather than work around it, and we ask both sides for the same things.
Before anything else, we write down what you are looking for and send it back to you for confirmation. Everything we do afterwards is measured against that document.
The same checks apply to the party who mandates us and to the party we bring. We do not exempt a client from a check because they are paying us.
Registration extract, ownership, ultimate beneficial owner, sanctions and adverse media screening, and confirmation that the person we deal with can sign.
Storage or production capacity, previous shipments, port and terminal relationships, and references we can call rather than logos on a slide.
The banking relationship, the instrument the buyer can open, and confirmation from a bank rather than a document produced by the counterparty.
A document that cannot be checked with the party that supposedly issued it is treated as if it did not exist.
Once both sides clear verification, we set the introduction in writing. The agreement covers three things and nothing more: confidentiality over what each side learns, non-circumvention for a defined period, and the fee we are paid if a contract is signed and performed.
After the introduction, the commercial discussion belongs to the parties. We do not sit between them, we do not filter their messages, and we do not renegotiate on anyone's behalf. We stay reachable for the practical friction that follows: a specification that needs clarifying, an inspection to arrange, a document that has not arrived.
We withdraw from an enquiry, at any stage and without explanation to the other side, if we find that a document has been altered, that a party is not who it claims to be, or that an intermediary chain has been concealed from us.
No. TJFI never buys, never sells and never holds title. Any contract is signed directly between buyer and seller, and we are not a party to it.
No. There is no retainer, no registration fee and no charge for reviewing an enquiry. Our fee falls due when the goods are delivered and payment has been released.
Yes. We sign one before any name is disclosed, and we expect the same from the parties we introduce.
Only if we can reach the party that issued it and confirm it directly. A document that has travelled through several hands tells us nothing about whether the goods exist.
No. Funds move between the parties and their banks. We hold no client money and operate no escrow.
It depends on how quickly the counterparty produces documents and on how long registry and bank confirmations take in the jurisdiction concerned. We tell you at the outset what we are waiting for and we tell you when it stops moving.
A price that no producer could sustain, a seller who will not name the plant, a buyer who will not name the bank, a demand for payment ahead of any independent inspection, or a document that the supposed issuer does not recognise.
Tell us what you buy or what you hold, and what you can document today. We reply with what is missing, or with a straight no.
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