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Customs Digital is a newly launched magazine for customs practitioners in Europe. The editor Janine Lampprecht says: "We want to explain things simply, pragmatically, and clearly, and to generate … 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 the talk during the webinar 'Journals on Customs'.

To stay compliant means to keep up with regulatory changes. How do we stay on top of сustoms-related legal changes and other news? What are the most preferred communication channels? In this … article, we summarise what authors of the CCRM journal shared during the 5th Authors’ Meeting on 22 April 2021: 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 social media, and much more!

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, Milda Stravinskė and Monika Bielskienė, met to discuss the broader international context of our day-to-day customs activities. First and foremost, customs law is a 'companion' to international … trade, so the international context and cooperation, common rules, agreements, and approaches, are inevitable. No importer or customs authority operates in isolation. The need to reconcile many spheres and interests leads to an abundance of international agreements and requirements. While preparing the courses for customs brokers, we both saw the need to disclose this context to our future colleagues. The easiest way to do this is by sharing personal experiences. So we talked about it.

“It is important for us to provide the floor for discussion of issues important for scientists and practicing lawyers focusing on respective fields, for logistic and customs professionals.” - … Prof Dr Borys Kormych, the Editor in Chief of 'Lex Portus' journal, tells in an interview about the journal, shares insights from articles, provides interesting facts about the case-law (Ukraine has an extensive practice of customs appeals), and answers other questions.

31 March 2021, online training courses for persons wishing to provide customs representation services are launching. About these courses, the profession of customs broker and studies in the field … of customs in general, we talk to the representatives of the partners organizing the courses: Prof. Dr. Astrida Miceikiene, Chancellor of the Academy of Agriculture of Vytautas Magnus University, Akvile Alauskaitė, Head of the Study Programs of the University of Applied Social Sciences, and Enrika Naujoke, Head of the Lithuanian Customs Practitioners Association.

Kalbiname Ingridą Kemežienę, mokesčių ekspertę, dirbančią advokatų kontoroje „Ellex Valiūnas ir partneriai”. Ingrida yra pati įgijusi atstovo muitinėje kvalifikaciją. Rengiamuose internetiniuose … Asmenų, pageidaujančių teikti atstovavimo muitinėje paslaugas, mokymo kursuose Ingrida pasirinko paruošti paskaitą prekių deklaravimo tema.

While most trade compliance professionals are likely aware of U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR) as it pertains to exports originating from the U.S., many are not aware its scope can … extend to shipments that do not physically involve the U.S.

Dr. Karlis Ketners, profesorius BA School of Business and Finance, Ryga, Latvija, pasidalino atsiliepimu apie nesenai perskaitytą knygą pasaulinės prekybos ir muitų tema.

Highlights from the Global Trade and Customs book: different cultural approaches to litigation; import VAT/GST in countries with multi-level VAT/GST systems; customs value and transfer pricing. … The editor of the book Zsolt Szatmári also reveals challenges of a multi-jurisdictional comparative study. Dr. Karlis Ketners shares the reader‘s perspective.

The 3rd Customs Practitioners conference (national conference in Lithuania) was held on 10 December 2020 under the slogan: "There is no good supply chain without good customs!". We provide an … overview of the presentations, which covered international, EU and national legislation, Brexit, preferential origin of goods, import/ export VAT and post-clearance audits.

Juan David Barbosa is the author of the Tariff Classification chapter included in the global compilation on comparative customs law through the lenses of 50 authors from 11 countries in Latin … America and Europe (available in Spanish). The chapter provides insightful practical advice on how to handle the WCO Harmonized System (HS) amendments. Read the interview and/ or watch the video.

“Guide des procedures douanières” (available in French), written by Cyrille CHATAIL, is a compilation of articles that are constantly updated. It is a kind of encyclopedia of EU customs regulation … and its interpretation given by authorities, courts, practitioners, etc. The great advantage of this book is that it “moves” together with the move of the customs regulation! Read the interview and/ or watch the video.

In the book "Customs Regimes in Ukraine" disparate provisions of the legislation - the Customs Code, the Tax Code, numerous regulations - are brought together. This simplifies the perception … and understanding of how customs formalities are carried out in a particular customs regime. Read the author's talk or watch the video.

In the interview, Mr. Solon shares his insights on teaching law to future students, overviews customs law changes in the course of the past decades in Brazil, shares his experience about the … process of writing a book, tells about the book "Import Tax" and more! Read the interview and/ or watch the video.

In the interview, Mr. Valantiejus shares the main idea of the book "Legal Regulation of Customs Duties", points out customs-related insights relevant for customs practitioners, reveals which … book on customs subject is his favorite, and more! Read the interview and/ or watch the video. Please find the summary of the book in English in this article (the book is in Lithuanian).

In August 2020, during the 1-st Authors' Meeting, Dr. Talke Ovie emphasized the importance of knowledge: “Customs and trade law is becoming ever more complex and a way must be found to secure … the transfer of know-how and knowledge in the current [Covid-19 related] situation". This inspired the topic of the second meeting "Customs knowledge in our countries: Is it sufficient? What is ‘sufficient’?", which took place on 21 October, 2020. Views were exchanged by participants from Brazil, Colombia, India, Latvia and Lithuania.

The Lithuanian Customs Practitioners Association (LCPA) is a very dynamic organization which publishes a journal called the Customs Compliance & Risk Management Journal for Practitioners. To … stimulate the exchange of ideas between Journal contributors, the Association decided to create a writers’ group which met online for the first time on 18 August 2020. Customs specialists from various backgrounds shared their perspectives on the issues they perceived to be important in their respective countries or areas of work. This article highlights some of these issues and invites you to read the Journal to learn more about the writers’ views.

At this particular moment the one and only program which includes comprehensive studies of customs law and customs activities in Lithuania, developed in cooperation with the Customs Department … under the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania (since 2000), is bachelor’s degree studies programme of “Law and Customs Activities” at Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania). The uniqueness of this program, which is presented in this article, is that it allows acquiring both a classic legal qualification and provides value-added knowledge in the field of customs and logistics.

All over the world, in the field of training in customs matters, so far, there has not been coordinated cooperation between customs officers’ “in-house” training and study process in civil higher … education establishments both within the borders of one country and among several countries. With regard to the training of customs matters, the EC TAXUD proposes merging all four elements together, where the study process remains within the individual scope of member states and is managed in accordance with national requirements. The paradox of customs activity remains – along with the uniform EU regulation, there are 28 national customs office institutions with uniform competence requirements, but with individually regulated curriculum content and professional standards.