International trade procedures update

Audience

Everyone who has any connection with international trade either at import or export will benefit. The following are examples of the type of company personnel who need to keep up-to-date:

Shipping or logistic managers

Financial directors and managers

Export project managers and administrators

All staff involved in the control of imports including purchasing, material managers, import managers and administrators

All involved in the day-to-day activity of export, import or issuing reports to Customs

Supply chain managers and co-ordinators

Quality/procedural managers who must ensure compliance and audit trails in these procedures

Skills Gained

Delegates will learn to:

• Understand and prepare for the new Customs procedures
• Know quickly where to go for further information on key topics
• Ensure that good compliance will keep your company away from the penalties of the law
• Ensure that your Customs declarations are accurate and compliant with UK/EC law

Prerequisites

Delegates attending this seminar should have some knowledge of current export and import procedures.

Course Outline

Review of the rules relating to international trade

• HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
• Civil penalty regime
• Partnering with HMRC
• Accessing the rules – using the Customs website
• Customs Notices

Customs Procedures

• Customs offices and how they operate
• Export evidence and NES
• Intra-Community Trade Statistics (Intrastat)
• Inward processing relief (IPR)
• Import procedures

Preferential trade agreements

• Preference at import – including the recent changes to the Generalised System of Preference
• GSP Plus – how is this different?
• Preference at export – stamping of forms, simplification procedures
• Up-date on proposed changes to origin rules
• Cumulation of origin – can you gain an advantage?
• New trade agreements
• Preference and particular countries, eg, China

EU Customs; special situations

• Implications of operating in more than one member state of the EC
• Review of operating duty suspension or drawback systems within the EC
• Single European Authorisation (SEA)
• The New Computerised Transit System (NCTS)

Goods on the move; practical changes

• Phytosanitary regulations
• Container and aviation security
• Anti-terrorism regulation
• Insuring cargo with freight companies

The new Harmonised System headings

• Commodity codes affected by the changes to the coding system
• Tariff Rulings and where to get advice
• The GIRs – General Interpretative Rules and how to use them
• e-BTI System

SAD Harmonisation

• Changes to all the import/export and customs declarations made on the Single Administrative Document (SAD)
• Implementation timescales across the EU – when will it affect the UK?
• Additional information requirements
• New style Customs Procedure Codes (CPCs)
• Valuation declarations

The New Customs Code

• What is the Customs Code?
• Areas that affect international trade within the Customs Code
• Why a new Customs Code is being prepared
• Special regimes – merging IPR, OPR, End-Use, PCC, etc into the Authorised Economic Operator scheme
• Introduction of three procedural areas – Import, Export and Special
• Financial guarantees – when will they be required?
• The removal of IPR Drawback
• Central EU reporting and penalty scheme

Further information

• Useful websites and contacts
• Other proposed changes to be aware of

Managing the changes

• Key issues revisited – how will you benefit?
• Internal communication – are improvements required?
• Training and knowledge-building

International trade procedures update / cm65386