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 […]
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 […]
March 15, 2023
The European Commission defines the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) as a climate measure that has the objective to prevent the risk of carbon leakage and support the EU on […]
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 […]
April 7, 2022
Non-preferential rules of origin are used to determine the country of origin of goods for the application of the most-favoured nation treatment, for commercial policy measures, trade embargoes, safeguard measures, […]
November 16, 2021
Un outil pratique et indispensable pour vous aider dans l’application des droits de douane et des autres mesures liées au commerce international Le départ du Royaume-Uni de l’Union européenne en […]
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 […]
April 28, 2021
The Union Customs Code (UCC) provides that any person may appoint a customs representative. ‘Customs representation’ is defined in the UCC as ‘any person appointed by another person to carry […]
March 30, 2021
Under the EU-UK TCA, when you export your EU preferential origin goods to UK you cannot reimport them and benefit from the tariff preference treatment in the EU. This is valid for the majority of the EU FTAs.