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News in week 17: Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the UK enters into force on 1 May 2021; additional customs duties on imports of certain products originating in the USA; Commission … public consultation on the Union Customs Code; read for more news.

In this article, we review the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), in which the goods relevant at this time of year are examined, namely tariff classification of spot-on … solution for cats against fleas and ticks. One of the questions raised was whether permission to place a product on the market as a veterinary medicinal product means that the product should be classified as a medicinal product in the Combined Nomenclature.

Reader’s question. A customs brokerage firm acting as a direct representative must provide to customs the power of attorney for such representation (or a contract). What are the consequences … of not providing it? Is the power of attorney valid, if on the part of the client, it was signed not by the executive of the company but by, for instance, the logistics manager?

Balandžio mėnesio aktualijos: pakeista patvirtinta EUR.1 judėjimo sertifikato blanko privalomoji forma; patvirtintas muitinės leidimų, suteikiamų muitinės leidimų sistemos priemonėmis, valdymo … proceso aprašas; patvirtintas eksporto leidimų eksportuoti COVID-19 vakcinas išdavimo tvarkos aprašas ir daugiau!

Valstybinė maisto ir veterinarijos tarnyba (VMVT) informuoja, kad jau nuo šių metų balandžio 21 dienos keičiasi reikalavimai iš trečiųjų šalių į Europos Sąjungos (ES) teritoriją įvežamiems sudėtiniams … produktams. Visi sudėtiniai produktai, kurių sudėtyje nėra mėsos ir kuriems yra taikomas temperatūrinis režimas, galės būti įvežami tik su veterinarijos sertifikatu.

Lietuvos vyriausiasis administracinis teismas aktualioje byloje palaikė poziciją, jog skolos muitinei atsiradimą laikinojo įvežimo perdirbti atveju gali sąlygoti net ir iš pažiūros formalūs laikinojo … įvežimo perdirbti procedūros pažeidimai. Staipsnyje apžvelgiama byla ir ir aptariama teismo pateiktų išaiškinimų reikšmė verslui.

This is the first “coffee break” article in our new series featuring thought leaders in the field of customs. Our guest is Mette Werdelin Azzam, a rules of origin geek who spent a decade at the … World Customs Organization (WCO) as the Senior Technical Officer focusing on origin. She is now is working as an independent Customs and Trade Agreement Specialist with rules of origin as her main expertise and passion.

We are talking to Eimantas Kiudulas, the General Director of Klaipėda Free Economic Zone Management Company, about the benefits of free zones for businesses, the differences and similarities … of these zones in various countries, membership in international organizations, and the importance of compliance with international standards.

The authors of this article argue that harmonization should be high on the agenda both of those who make, and of those who enforce, legislation. To illustrate, they explain some of the issues … faced by businesses due to the lack of harmonization of rules, or to the non-harmonized implementation of these rules. Three topics are addressed: the difficulty of identifying preferential rules of origin for a given HS code; the process to obtain a Customs registration number in the European Union; and the implementation of the AEO Programme in Ukraine.

If an importer or exporter is unsure about the origin of their goods, or simply wants legal certainty, they can apply for a Binding Origin Information decision (BOI).A BOI, also referred to as … an advance ruling on origin, is a written decision on the origin of the good, issued by Customs to a company prior to an importation or exportation. The decision can cover preferential or non-preferential origin.