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Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) took another decision regarding customs valuation and adjustment of transaction value. In this decision CJEU analysed legal importance of compensation … paid for the right to exclusively distribute goods. CJEU concluded that such compensation was the condition of sale and thus must be reflected in the customs value of goods. The fact that compensation was agreed on in a separate contract (not in a sale-purchase agreement) and that it was limited in time did not change conclusions of the CJEU. It is yet another signal for the importers to carefully examine all the payments between them and the seller and evaluate their possible influence on customs value of imported goods.

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?

Tarptautinių Incoterms taisyklių svarba prekybai yra neabejotina. Verslas jas taiko tarptautinėje prekyboje siekdamas išvengti netikėtumų ir rizikos dėl nenumatytų išlaidų bei ginčų. Prekybos … įmonės turėtų įsitikinti, kad jos žino apie naujas Incoterms 2020 taisykles, peržiūrėti savo sutartis ir, reikalui esant, atlikti būtinus pakeitimus, galimai ir savo specialistų žinių tobulinimu pasirūpinti. Teisingas pristatymo sąlygų pasirinkimas taip pat palengvins muitinės formalumų atlikimą ir bus aiškūs atsakymai dėl sandorio vertės tikslinimo/ netikslinimo prekių gabenimo išlaidomis.

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.

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.

On 25 September 2020, the European Commission has published a new version of the Guidance on Customs Valuation. Although this document is not legally binding, it is considered an important tool … for the interpretation of the EU customs legislation. The guidance aims to ensure a common understanding between customs and economic operators and to provide a tool to facilitate the correct and harmonized application of customs legislation in the Member States. The guidance is expected to be included in the EU Customs Valuation Compendium in 2021.

Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU) remained with its position that the economic value of software should be added to the transaction value of imported goods, despite the fact that it was … designed in the European Union and transferred to the third-country manufacturer free of charge.

Adam Smith, author of “The Wealth of Nations”, wrote that Customs duties have been “in use for time immemorial”. To a large extent, this assertion is correct. The practice of taxing commerce … is as old as commerce itself. And where a tax must be collected, there will be disputes over rates and methods.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the entry into force of the WTO Customs Valuation Agreement (CVA). The Agreement seeks to tackle Customs clearance delays resulting from valuation verification … and to ensure that the Customs value of goods entering a market are properly assessed to reflect the actual price of the goods as agreed between the buyer and seller.

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).

A significant amount of work has been done over the last 15 years on “convergence” of income tax transfer pricing (TP) and Customs valuation. Both income tax and Customs rules seek the same result, … ensuring that prices between related parties are “at arm’s length,” set as if the parties were unrelated. But the rules are different. Income tax TP rules in the majority of countries are based on guidelines established by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD. Customs valuation principles are established in the WTO Valuation Agreement (Agreement). Moreover, the revenue collection focal points of tax and Customs administrations are different: a high transfer price generally results in a high duty, but low income tax; a low transfer price results in lower duties and higher income taxes.

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the WCO have a history of long and close co-operation in the area of Customs valuation. As the institutional representative of more than 45 million … businesses in over 100 countries, ICC has been participating as an Observer in the meetings of the Technical Committee on Customs Valuation since 1979. In that time, the ICC Observer delegation has had the opportunity to explain specific aspects of commercial practice in terms of their influence on Customs valuation, as well as to engage with Customs representatives on specific technical issues. In this article, ICC highlights some of the challenges and questions arising from implementation of valuation rules, highlighting the important work of the Technical Committee.

Advance rulings relating to the determination of tariff classification and origin of goods are already established in several countries, but few have implemented such a system in the field of … Customs valuation. Such rulings do not determine or confirm the actual Customs value of a particular consignment but indicate the treatment to apply to certain elements of the Customs value. In this article, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) explains the processes and procedures relating to this powerful trade facilitation tool which benefits both the administration and trade operators.

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?

Europos Sąjungos Teisingumo Teismas (ESTT) tikslina savo išaiškinimus dėl licencinių mokesčių ir autorinių atlyginimų įtraukimo į importuojamų prekių muitinę vertę. Prieš kelis metus šio teismo … priimtas sprendimas GE Healthcare (C-173/15) byloje sukėlė daugiau klausimų, nei pateikė atsakymų – atrodė, kad bet kokia net menka licencinių mokesčių sąsaja su importuotomis prekėmis turi būti išskaičiuota ir pridėta prie prekių vertės skaičiuojant importo mokesčius. Šį kartą teismas kiek susiaurino ir sukonkretino savo išaiškinimus: nurodė „pakankamai glaudaus ryšio“ kriterijus bei licencinių mokesčių, kaip būtinosios pardavimo sąlygos, požymius. Tokie išaiškinimai leis importuotojams aiškiau vykdyti savo prievoles ir numatyti licencinių mokesčių taikymo pasekmes.