Customs

• Tax procedures on data verification, tax and customs audits
• Arguing appeals before national and EU bodies and courts for issues arising from customs debt
• Claims for undue income for customs duties paid in excess
• Audits on origin, at the request of foreign authorities
• Design and submission of binding rulings related to tax structures and rates, customs and tax regimes, tariff classification and origin.
• Handling both sales and services contracts, from a national and international perspective

Risk management

• Design and calculation of customs guarantee (global or for each transaction)
• Preventive audits of import and export transactions (and their related documentation)
• Diagnosis of compliance in customs regimes and special destinations
• Identification of risks and key controls in the import and export processes
• Design and implementation of customs and tax procedures, aligned with both best practices and domestic and international regulations
• Compliance with regulations on labelling and other non-tariff measures
• Traceability reviews of foreign trade transactions as from import export files and registries
• Reconciliation of customs declarations with accounting records and with other operational areas of the company

Certifications and Authorizations

• Certification of Authorized Economic Operator (AEO)
• Identification, management and maintenance of commercial, sanitary, phytosanitary, defence material and dual-use technologies licenses
• Certificates of origin (preferential and non-preferential)
• Certification of origin through REX system
• Granting and maintenance of the following customs authorizations:
  • Simplified procedure
  • Centralized Customs Clearance
  • Single authorization
  • Provisional customs values
  • Self-assessment
• Granting and maintenance of the following customs regimes:
  • Temporary storage
  • Specific use: temporary admission and end-use
  • Customs and VAT warehouses
  • Inward processing
  • Outward processing
  • Common and Union transit
  • Specific regimes in the Canary Islands

• Reassessment of customs authorizations, certifications and customs guarantees

Analytical and Strategic consulting

• Redesign (optimization) of the international supply chain
• Advantages of Free Trade Agreements
• Analysis of rules and criteria for tariff classification of goods
• Enhancement of product and logistics in international markets
• Customs valuation of goods and services
• Customs value and adjustment of customs value under the framework of transfer pricing policies
• IT traceability of foreign trade transactions
• Antidumping duties
• Incoterms
• Duties and other import taxes in the Canary Islands