Customs and International Trade
Legal services
- 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
- Granting of CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) Certificate
- 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
- Analysis of CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) measures