A UK company, Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) or Limited Partnership(LP) or other suitable UK entity can provide non-UK resident traders with a commercially useful structure to trade in goods and services internationally or to simply hold foreign assets.  Such a structure can also have excellent tax benefits.

UK companies can be used as "holding" companies to own investments in trading companies.  There will be no capital gains tax on disposal of such investments provided certain conditions are met.  There is no withholding tax on the payment of dividends from UK companies, even to offshore jurisdictions.  The UK gives credit for foreign taxes suffered on upstream distributions to UK companies.  This makes the UK one of the most attractive holding company jurisdictions in the world.