This half day training is designed to help traders understand Customs clearance and prepare to instruct their agent to clear their goods at import and export from January 2021. We don’t advise new importers and exporters to complete customs declarations themselves, at least at the beginning. This training will help you to understand:

• Customs clearance
• Customs compliance requirements as well as the exporter and importer compliance obligation
• Customs duties and duty reduction procedures

Programme

• Incoterms: Understand the role of Incoterms. Select the most appropriate terms for your imports and export to clarify each party 's responsibility.
• Customs classification: select the correct commodity code for your products so or your customer you pay the right amount of import duty, not too much, not too little.
• Customs duties: Learn how to check the amount of duty at import in the UK and your customers’ country.
• Customs valuation: Understand and determine the correct valuation method for your imports or export.
• Customs procedure: Understand the main import and export procedures and their respective compliance requirements. Understand Special Procedures (customs warehousing, Outward Processing Relief, Inward Processing Relief…) providing savings or by delaying the tax point, cash-flow benefits.
• Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and Rules of Origin: Understand how to take advantage of the FTA signed by the UK and other countries, including possibly the EU. Meeting the obligations of FTAs allows to reduce or remove import duties.
• Customs declarations, clearance instructions and import/export documentation: understand how customs declaration are completed and learn how to instruct your agent to clear the goods for import and export.
• Record keeping: Recording your import and export transactions, keeping records and maintaining an audit trail

Supporting material

• Course textbook
• Checklists for actionable and fast implementation of learnings

Who should attend and why?

• Import /export administration: administrators who manage the business cross-border transactions and prepare import and export documentation
• Logistics: need to ensure products they move across borders and are not delayed.
• Procurement department: buyers to understand the additional requirements of import and to identify any additional import costs or restrictions specific to their purchases.
• Sales: sales team to understand how export and import requirements will impact their customers across the EU.

Why choose Alegrant training?

We offer global trade and customs compliance trainings in various formats and levels to fit global traders' specifics business operations and requirements.  All our trainings are grounded in the principle of Capacity Building. 

Capacity building at the core of all our services. Our work, whether training or advisory, is designed to ensure skill transfer to the business and increase our client knowledge and capabilities. The three overall outcomes of capacity building include helping the organisation to do what it already does, but better;  improving its ability to grow; , improving its ability to change. 

• Instructors are renowned experts in international trade and Customs management with over 20 years of experience.
• Trainings have a workshop approach, so delegate apply the new knowledge as they learn.
• Course material and checklists allows for immediate implementation when returning to the business.
• Delegates and the business receive a completion certificate demonstrating the business activity toward compliance
• Delegates join our alumni network.

Training format

Online by video conference (Zoom). Details and link to follow.

Price and booking

£250 Exc. VAT

Any question?

Send us a note at training@alegrant.com.