
Anthony Buckley, former Head of Revenue's Customs Service in Ireland, explains Centralised Clearance for Imports (CCI) and what it means for businesses importing into several EU member states. Topics covered: What Centralised Clearance for Imports (CCI) is and how it compares to the VAT One Stop Shop Ireland's earlier experience...

Godfried Smit, Secretary General of the European Shippers' Council, explains how centralised clearance works under the Union Customs Code and why customs and trade compliance professionals should understand both its practical benefits and its current limits. Topics covered: The legal basis of centralised clearance (Article 179 of the UCC, and...

Evguenia Dereviankine, Managing partner and lawyer at PARADIGMES, explains the recent tightening of the VAT rules for French customs regime 42 — essential viewing for customs and trade-compliance professionals handling import-and-onward-EU-delivery flows through France. Topics covered How customs regime 42 works: VAT-free import into France followed by an exempt intra-Community...

This recording examines the widening gap between simplified customs declaration data and the far more detailed data now demanded by sustainability and traceability regulations, an issue of growing relevance for customs and trade compliance professionals managing both trade facilitation and regulatory reporting. Topics covered: The trend towards reduced, more flexible...

Pawel Jarza (British International Freight Association) explains the UK's new Safety and Security (Entry Summary) declaration requirement for goods imported from the EU, coming into force on 31 January 2025 — essential viewing for customs agents, freight forwarders and carriers involved in UK-EU road, sea and air freight. Topics covered:...

Mistakes in customs declarations happen to everyone, but how they are corrected — and whether correction is even possible — varies enormously between jurisdictions. This recording of the Journals on Customs webinar brings together customs lawyers and practitioners from the EU, US, Ireland and Israel to compare how mistakes are...

Anthony Buckley (Customs Knowledge Institute) reviews the newly updated EU Compendium of Customs Valuation together with the March 2024 simplification guidance and two regulations on Binding Valuation Information, giving customs and trade compliance professionals a practical map of where valuation complexity really arises. Topics covered: Structure and contents of the...
"The greatest number of questions currently are around the detail of trade with Northern Ireland and the operation of UKIMS (the new UK Internal Market Scheme)." – says Anthony Buckley from his experience of advising businesses in Ireland and delivering training. During the webinar, which took place on 10.11.2023, CKI...

This webinar recording explains the Windsor Framework and its practical effects on trade between the UK, the EU and Northern Ireland — essential viewing for customs and trade compliance professionals dealing with UK-EU movements, not only those with a Northern Ireland focus. Topics covered: Post-Brexit trade trends between Ireland and...

This recording explains the supplier's declaration as a proof of preferential origin under the EU Union Customs Code, and is directly relevant to customs and trade compliance professionals who need to establish or verify the preferential status of goods moving through multi-tier supply chains. Topics covered: The legal basis for...
More than 70 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas acceded to the TIR Convention. TIR Carnet is an intermodal document. The goods with it can be transported by sea, air, rail and truck, provided the load department in which the goods are transported (for example, a container) is...

Letters of credit are a core trade-finance tool that customs and trade-compliance professionals encounter whenever payment for cross-border shipments is guaranteed by banks. This short tutorial sets out the parties involved, the main types of letter of credit, and the critical dates that determine whether an LC still has value...

A short, focused explanation of the end-use special customs procedure under the UCC (Union Customs Code) — a rarely used but important procedure for customs and trade compliance professionals to understand. Topics covered: What end-use actually means: non-Union goods released for free circulation for a specific prescribed use, not a...
What: The 'EU Customs Compliance Basics for the Container Shipping and Logistics Industry' training will give confidence to those of you who are beginning your career in this exciting industry! The training aims to help companies in the container shipping and logistics industry train both new and current employees and...

This webinar is relevant to customs and trade compliance professionals who prepare, guarantee or supervise customs transit procedures (T1/T2, TIR, ATA), as it walks through the practical risks around transit guarantees and the discharge of the procedure, illustrated with real cases from customs brokerage practice. Topics covered: Customs transit documents:...

This video explains the main simplifications available for the customs transit procedure under the Union Customs Code (UCC) and the Convention on a common Transit procedure, and quantifies the time savings they bring for businesses moving goods across borders. Topics covered: The non-simplified transit process, step by step, and the...