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Importing a car from the UK has always seemed attractive as there is a much bigger choice than in Ireland, prices are very competitive, and anyone could travel freely to make their purchase. … The currency exchange rate can also be favourable to Irish buyers. But importing a car from the UK has become more complicated in 2021 post Brexit. Here is an overview of the requirements for imports of cars to the Republic of Ireland from Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

European Commission released Guidance on preferential treatment, origin and customs procedures to assist EU businesses importing from and exporting to the UK. One of the questions clarified: … “Goods originating in the EU are exported to the UK and released for free circulation there. They are not transformed. Can they come back to the EU without paying duties?”. The only suggestion is to customs clear them as returned goods. Does the same principle apply to all EU FTAs? What are the requirements for returned goods to claim “zero duty”? What about “zero VAT”? Other requirements like Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary?

At present, the Russian Federation is the third most important trading partner for the European Union (EU) in terms of international trade in goods and the EU is the most important trading partner … for the Russian Federation. In addition, starting from 2012, the Russian Federation is also a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), so its trade relations with the EU are also governed by the WTO law. Taking into account the fact that customs duties, especially trade defence duties, have a significant practical impact on the volume of international trade between the EU and the Russian Federation and on international trade business, this article discusses the legal issues of their application and possible solutions, based on the recent WTO trade dispute settlement practice.

After months of wrangling the EU and the UK agreed upon the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) on the 24th of December 2020. This trade agreement came as a huge relief to most traders and … businesses who have exposure to the EU/UK supply chain. However, it was not long before this ‘Christmas present’ revealed some very significant conditions that invalidated many of the benefits that most thought the TCA presented. For Customs and trade professionals, this would have been anticipated to some extent, but to regular business owners who had come to rely on the frictionless trade that the EU’s Customs Union and single market facilitated, these conditions came as a very unwelcome shock.

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.

Straipsnyje pateikiama Europos Komisijos (EK) gairių dėl mažaverčių siuntų importo ir eksporto formalumų apžvalga ES ir nacionalinių teisės aktų ir formuojamos praktikos kontekste, akcentuojant … bendrai, kokių aiškinimų ir teisinių nuostatų siuntas gabenančios ir jas deklaruojančios įmonės pasigenda, kokias galimas grėsmes praktikoje įžvelgia. Pabrėžiami šiam verslo sektoriui rūpimi klausimai dėl prekes muitinei pateikiančiam asmeniui atsirandančios prievolės mokėti importo PVM, neatsižvelgiant į tai, ar importo PVM buvo faktiškai surinktas iš asmens, kuriam skirtos prekės (Specialiosios importo PVM deklaravimo ir mokėjimo procedūros taikymo atvejis), taip pat dėl mažaverčių siuntų atžvilgiu įformintų muitinės deklaracijų pripažinimo negaliojančiomis praktikos. Čia pat keliami klausimai dėl EK diegiamos išankstinio importo mokesčių surinkimo schemos patikimumo – kiek saugūs gali jaustis IOSS (Import One Stop Shop) schemos dalyviai (pirkėjai, pardavėjai, deklarantai).

“Import taxes” - the term is used to define the totality of customs-administered taxes (taxes paid to customs administrations/ authorities) applied in the EU, which, in accordance with the national … legislation of the EU and EU Member States, are levied on imports of goods, including customs duties, import VAT and excise duties.

What does the EU-UK TCA mean for businesses that sell finished goods of EU origin to EU customers from the UK, and vice versa? This article addresses questions increasingly asked by businesses … with distribution centre models. Specifically, questions relating to how to mitigate customs duty when trading originating goods between the UK and the EU in 2021.

On 24 December 2020 European Commission announced that an agreement with the United Kingdom on the terms of future cooperation was reached. The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement shall be … provisionally applied as of 1 January 2021. It provides for zero tariffs and zero quotas on all goods that comply with the appropriate rules of origin. What are these rules and the documents proving the originating status of the goods?

The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union has answered the question of whether goods made partly of tobacco and other materials should be subject to excise duty on tobacco in … its entirety or only in part of the composition of the tobacco as one of the consisting substances.

Straipsnyje aptariama Lietuvos vyriausiojo administracinio teismo (LVAT) pozicija dėl mokestinės atsakomybės ir mokestinių prievolių už tranzitu gabenamas prekes paskirstymo tarp tranzitu gabenamų … prekių vežėjo ir muitinės sandėlio, iš kurio šios prekės buvo išleistos gabenimui į paskirties muitinės įstaigą, turėtojo.

Šiame straipsnyje, remiantis Lietuvos vyriausiojo administracinio teismo praktika, suformuota aktualioje administracinėje byloje (ginčo suma beveik 0,5 mln. Eur!), aptariamos muitinės papildomai … apskaičiuotų antidempingo muitų nuginčijimo sąlygos ir jų taikymo tvarka, taip pat apžvelgiami skolos muitinei senaties terminų skaičiavimo ypatumai.

The system of sanctions for the violations, related to declaration and payment of import taxes, is currently not harmonized within the European Union (EU). Therefore, the article reviews laws … of the Republic of Bulgaria (as the EU Member State), defining such penalties and highlights the importance of voluntary disclosure of offence/ violation or mistake by the taxpayer to tax authorities for the application of legal responsibility.

Both in the practice of tax disputes and during tax inspections or investigations carried out by the customs authorities, the following question arises quite often: which particular person the … customs authorities are entitled to qualify as the debtor and, accordingly, to calculate (to that or another particular person) the additional import taxes. In this article, we will review the provisions of the EU Union Customs Code (UCC) and the relevant case-law of the EU Court of Justice (CJEU), which helps to answer these questions and allows businesses to defend their rights and legitimate interests in disputed situations.

The current Customs Code of Ukraine includes eighteen types of customs offenses entailing administrative liability. Compared to the previous Customs Code, their number has decreased by a third. … However, this does not result in positive dynamics towards the reduction of illegal acts as well as there are no signs that some of the acts ceased to be offenses.

Following World War II, like-minded nations sought to create a global trading system that could help foster peace and prosperity through greater economic integration. This effort spawned the … General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which required its members to bind their tariffs at lower levels and apply them in a non-discriminatory way (meaning if you give a concession to one country, you give it to them all).

Reader's question: Can anti-dumping duties and countervailing duties apply simultaneously to the same product? In response to this question, here we provide a practical example of importing electric … bicycles from China and review trade defence instruments - anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard duties.

Naršant TARIC ir LITAR duomenų bazes, susidursite su sąvoka „erga omnes muito tarifas". Pasaulio prekybos organizacijos kalba tai – „didžiausio palankumo režimo muito tarifas" (angl. Most-favoured-nation … tariff (MFN tariff)). Ką šios sąvokos reiškia?

It has now been established by the supreme judicial authority, that it is possible to amend the customs declaration subsequently, even with regard to the information relating to the identity … of the declarant. However, with some limitations, which we point out in the overview of the recent judgement of the European Court of Justice.