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Customs Digital is a newly launched magazine for customs practitioners in Europe. Janine Lampprecht, the editor of the magazine, says: "We want to explain things simply, pragmatically, and clearly, … generating interest in the digitization of customs. Our vision - to revolutionize the customs world and make IT easy to understand for customs practitioners". Learn more about the magazine reading the interview with Janine and watching a video record of a talk about Customs Digital in the webinar “Journals on Customs”, which took place on 29 April 2021.

The mechanical engineering industry has a problem. Or more specifically the customs specialists at the respective companies. The departments of these companies can cooperate so well with each … other and provide each other with important information for everyday work, but the customs tariff is and remains a sticking point. Simply because there is little background knowledge about it and also the thin offer of further education often focuses on the customs tariff in general. This is also one of the reasons why ERP master data around foreign trade is often not correctly maintained.

To stay compliant means to keep up with regulatory changes. How do we learn about сustoms-related legal changes and other news? What is the most preferred communication channel? In this article, … we go over what authors of the CCRM journal shared during the 5th Authors’ Meeting: the enormous volume of statutory instruments due to Brexit; the convenience of the U.S. federal register; the importance of support bubbles; useful news alerts from Twitter, and much more!

News in week 18: changes of the EU-Switzerland agreement on customs security measures; new learning portal for tax and customs professionals; judgement of the CJEU regarding temporary importation … and VAT; changes of export licencing of COVID-19 vaccines; notices of the impending expiry of certain anti-dumping measures.

Learn about and find links to customs-related databases in the EU: TARIC, customs offices information, validation of EORI and REX numbers, AEO, CLASS, ECICS, EBTI, SAMANCTA, Export and Transit … MRN follow-up and databases of quotas, suspensions, surveillances.

‘Importer’s knowledge’ allows the importer to claim preferential tariff treatment based on evidence they have obtained about the originating status of imported products. This evidence must be … in the importer’s possession, be in form of supporting documents or records which may be provided by the exporter or producer and provide evidence that the product qualifies as originating.

‘Wood packaging material’ means any wood product in the form of packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packing, pallets, box pallets and other load boards, pallet collars, dunnage, whether … or not actually in use in the transport of objects of all kinds; raw wood of 6 mm thickness or less, processed wood produced by glue, heat and pressure, or a combination thereof, and dunnage supporting consignments of wood, which is constructed from wood of the same type and quality as the wood in the consignment, are excluded.

Product-specific rules (PSRs) of origin are the requirements for a product, which incorporates non-originating materials, to be originating in a country. PSRs are created based on origin criteria. … One criterion is a change in tariff classification (examples of other criteria: a production process, a maximum value or weight of non-originating materials). It means that any non-originating material used in the production of the product must be classified in a chapter, heading or subheading1 other than that of the product.