Online workshop: Tariff classification - get it right

This event is one of seven online workshops, organised as part of the Customs Ecosystem Conference, taking place on 6–7 October 2025 in Vilnius, Lithuania, and followed by further online workshops in October. View the programme and registration details at www.lcpa.lt/en.

About the workshop

This engaging session will feature:

• Presentations on recent classification updates.

• An in-depth exploration of selected aspects.

• An interview with a former CEO of a manufacturing company, entitled “Shocking, I say: What CEOs get wrong when organising foreign trade!”.

Dynamic Q&A sessions and discussions will take place throughout the event.

Speakers

Christopher Matt
Managing Director at MA-TAX Consulting GmbH and Founder of CU-TA Solutions, Germany

Christopher Matt is an expert in customs classification, export controls, and AI-powered trade compliance. Companies led by him support multi-billion-euro enterprises across Europe and North America with expert-led, AI-enhanced systems for tariff classification, export control verification, and dual-use assessment. With over a decade’s experience optimising industrial processes in regulated environments, he is also a published author on foreign trade.

Michael Lux
Attorney at Michael Lux BV and former Head of the TARIC and the Common Customs Tariff Unit in the EU Commission, Belgium

Michael Lux advises and coaches professionals engaged in international trade on achieving compliance while optimising savings in customs duties, excise duties, and VAT. His expertise spans anti-dumping and countervailing investigations, tariff classification, tariff quotas and suspensions, preferential arrangements, customs valuation, rules of origin, customs procedures, customs debt and guarantees, enforcement against goods infringing intellectual property rights, applications for centralised clearance and other simplified procedures, AEO status, and the implications of Brexit. He is also experienced in legal advocacy before EU institutions and national authorities, and regularly delivers training and lectures on these subjects.

How to join

You have a few options to gain access to this event:

• Invest 290 Eur (excluding VAT)/ organisation for full access to all online workshops:

  • Tariff classification - get it right

  • CBAM import readiness

  • Multilingualism of customs law – the challenge

  • How to “sell” customs in the organisation?

  • EU deforestation regulation - ensuring compliance and gaining competitive advantage

  • Preferential origin – key changes/ outlook 2026

  • Complimentary workshop - EU sanctions: common compliance pitfalls

  • AI & legal complexity management

• CustomsClear members: Exclusive access to two workshops for Team/Individual plan members - Classification and Preferential origin.

Contact us

If you need further information or have any questions, please feel free to contact us at info@customsclear.net