January 13, 2025
On 1 February 2025 will enter into force the EU-Chile Interim Trade Agreement. It will replace the previous EU-Chile Association Agreement. The main change concerns the elimination of the EUR.1 […]
March 11, 2024
The new Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean (‘new PEM Convention’) preferential rules of origin will enter into force as of 1 January 2025. However, some contracting parties of the PEM Convention […]
June 20, 2023
The proposal of the European Commission about the EU Customs Reform (COM(2023) 258 final) will have a big impact on e-commerce transactions of imported goods. The reform will make online […]
June 13, 2023
The EU Customs Reform introduces the Trust and Check trader status. These traders shall grant the customs authorities access to their electronic systems keeping record of their compliance and the […]
April 4, 2023
In the last days we have heard about the fraud using customs procedure 42 that has been dismantled in Belgium. But what is the customs procedure 42? Is it legal […]
September 16, 2022
Classification of goods is not only important to determine the customs duty rate, but also to issue a certificate of origin. Rules of origin always contain a list of working […]
June 8, 2022
The Italian customs administration has updated the national system of import by applying the data model defined at the Union level and named EUCDM (European Union Customs Data Model), starting […]
May 11, 2022
Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 7.5% in April 2022 according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. For companies this could be a disaster. Difficult to increase […]
October 4, 2021
For various reasons that we are not going to detail here, we are not encouraging companies to export using EXW Incoterm. However, it is a fact that there are companies […]
September 20, 2021
Full cumulation means that all operations carried out in the partner countries where full cumulation applies are taken into account when assessing the origin of the final product.The pan-Euro-Mediterranean (PEM) […]