East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce, North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce and Shout Network invite you to attend the Ultimate Network Summer BBQ – the county’s largest business to business networking event of the year.

With over 200 businesses expected to be in attendance from across the breadth of the county, the Ultimate Network is the biggest networking event in Lancashire. If you’re looking to connect with some of the very best local businesses, then the Ultimate Network is THE event to attend.

The event will take place on Friday 16 August from 3pm – 6pm at the newly refurbished Mercure Preston Samlesbury Hotel. As well as an afternoon of quality networking, attendees will also be treated to complimentary Hog Roast on the hotel terrace.

We hope you can join us at this fantastic, free to attend event.

Logistics Group is a brand new network for 2019 aimed at the Logistics sector, including HGV warehousing distribution.

This group will provide Lancashire businesses with access to information, opportunities and best practice insights as well as providing a forum to meet with their peers. These meetings will be hosted by local companies from within the sector and may include a factory or showroom tour. Unlike many networks, this is a closed group and focuses on the needs of Logistics businesses only.

This event is free to attend, however places are limited and will be allocated strictly on a first come, first served basis.

The Curry Club is an East Lancashire Institution. Since 2006 local businesses have regularly gathered together to network and share a fine curry lunch in a relaxed informal setting. Each event features a guest speaker to inspire or motivate. This year’s Curry Club sponsor is KeyFleet Vehicle Leasing and Fleet Management.

East Lancs Chamber and KeyFleet are working on an exciting line-up of guest speakers for this event – to be announced soon!

Book online now at https://www.mychamber.co.uk/eastlancs/event/view/id/2436

Alternatively, contact Debbi Dawson on 01254 356439 / 07989 978 287 or email d.dawson@chamberelancs.co.uk for more information.

Members £25 plus vat, non-members £35 plus vat.

The Sales industry can be a lonely place, full of pressure, targets with little time for self-development. For many sales professionals in East Lancashire, it’s hard to know sometimes where to go to find support and education.

Chamber Sales Professionals Club in partnership with Sales Geek is the new home for sales professionals. We aren’t about PowerPoints or lectures; we want to provide a home within Lancashire where sales professionals from all backgrounds, experience levels and industries can learn from each other and find their own route to sales success.

This is not your standard networking event, so while commercial relationships will naturally evolve, please don’t come armed to sell to the room. We want attendees to be able to create business allies, meet peers, learn from each other’s experiences and create long lasting relationships.

About the Hosts
We will have on hand two sales geeks, with over 35 years’ combined experience in sales strategy, direct sales, sales training, sales recruitment, B2B Sales, B2C Sales and business planning to assist you on your journey, as well as special guests on a regular basis.

Members £5 plus vat, non-members £10 plus vat.

This year’s Sales Club is sponsored by Cloud Sauce and Production Print Direct.

Managing the business after Brexit, trade with EU businesses and non-EU businesses, import and export declarations, commodity codes, trade agreements, DDP deliveries, direct and in-direct exports, special procedures and regimes for importing.

Free to attend, enquiries to Stef Heywood at s.heywood@chamberelancs.co.uk

Our seminars are regularly over-subscribed, therefore to secure your place please register your interest as soon as possible.

Please note when booking an event: refunds cannot be given for cancellations received 48 hours or less before the event booked.

Is your business ready for Brexit?

Does your company use customs agents and intermediaries to help you trade with the EU?

If so, you need to know how to meet customs requirements fast and efficiently after the UK leaves the EU. There will be new processes to follow and new forms to complete.

We can help.

Our training will highlight what you need to know to be able to accurately complete a simple customs declaration.

COURSE OPTIONS:

Face to face classroom courses (full day classroom delivery) and three hours of online e-learning:

Accredited Chamber members £280 + VAT

Non-members £350 + VAT

Online e-learning: (five hours including assessments)

Accredited Chamber members £190 + VAT

Non-members £230 + VAT

COURSE CONTENT

• Introduction to Trade
• Business Responsibilities
• Export process
• Import process
• Valuation – explanation of the main methods and their application
• Classification – determining the use of commodity codes
• Using Customs Procedure Codes – use of appropriate CPCs
• Export and import controls
• Reliefs
• Preferences
• Customs simplified procedures – explanation of procedures and benefits

COURSE DATES INCLUDE:

8th November 2019

22nd November 2019

THIS COURSE IS SUITABLE FOR THOSE WHO NEED AN UNDERSTANDING OF CUSTOMS REGIMES AND HOW TO COMPLETE A BASIC CUSTOMS DECLARATION FORM.

Assessment: no formal exam will be taken however delegates will get to complete simulated forms to ensure they can complete simple customs declarations correctly.

Special Procedures are schemes available to importers and exporters to waiver, suspend or drawback customs duties. When operating under a Special Procedure goods are still within the control of HMRC even though they have been released from the place of arrival.

Under any authorisation process HMRC checks that the company has relevant written procedures and skilled staff and determines how to use and maintain records for each procedure so it is important to understand your obligations.

Understanding these procedures can help in identifying which scheme can be used in a given situation, minimise import duty payments and subsequently benefit cash flow within your business.

SEMINAR CONTENT

• Processing: Inward Processing (IP) and Outward Processing (OP) relief
• Specific Use: Temporary Admissions (TA), End Use Relief (EnU) scheme and ATA Carnets.
• Storage: Customs Warehousing (CW)
• Transit: Internal and External transit
• Summary Questions and feedback

Please note when booking an event: refunds cannot be given for cancellations received 48 hours or less before the event booked.

In 2017 the Chamber launched a new network for Manufacturing businesses entitled ‘Making it in Lancashire’, designed to provide Lancashire manufacturers with access to information, opportunities and best practice insights as well as providing a forum to meet with your peers. Once again we are delighted to announce MHA Moore & Smalley as our event sponsors.

These highly successful breakfast meetings are hosted by local manufacturers and usually include a factory or showroom tour, which have proven to be really popular. Our previous hosts include BAE Systems, Heritage Envelopes, Whatmore UK and LC Automation.

The network is designed to provide Lancashire manufacturers with access to information, opportunities and best practice insights as well as providing a forum to meet with your peers. Unlike many networks, Making it in Lancashire is a closed group and focuses on the needs of Manufacturing businesses only.

This free event is limited to 60 delegates so places will be allocated strictly on a first come, first served basis.

HMRC seminar unveiling the new Customs Declaration Service controlling all UK exports and imports.

The Customs Declaration Service (CDS) will replace the current Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) service. This is the computer system currently used by HMRC to record the movement of goods by land, air and sea and process all Customs Declarations.

If your business is currently importing goods from, or exporting goods to, countries outside the EU, then you or your freight forwarder will be using CHIEF to:

• process customs declarations for goods entering and leaving the UK or EU through ports and airports
• calculate and pay the correct duty and taxes
• complete customs information electronically

These functions will be available on CDS but there will be differences with the new service.

SEMINAR CONTENT

• Introducing the CDS
• A walkthrough of the first type of declaration made via CDS
• New information required from businesses and their carriers in order to complete a customs declaration

WHO IS THIS SEMINAR FOR

Businesses already importing or exporting outside the EU and subject to the pending negotiations on leaving the EU, businesses trading solely in the EU, where a customs declaration currently does not apply.

Please note when booking an event: refunds cannot be given for cancellations received 48 hours or less before the event booked.

Managing the business after Brexit, trade with EU businesses and non-EU businesses, import and export declarations, commodity codes, trade agreements, DDP deliveries, direct and in-direct exports, special procedures and regimes for importing.

Free to attend, enquiries to Stef Heywood at s.heywood@chamberelancs.co.uk

Our seminars are regularly over-subscribed, therefore to secure your place please register your interest as soon as possible.

Please note when booking an event: refunds cannot be given for cancellations received 48 hours or less before the event booked.

This seminar is aimed at businesses that are either thinking about applying for AEO or have just started the application process. This practical session will run through the AEO framework with hands on advice and support on how to benefit from AEO.

For traders currently examining their options to determine if AEO trusted trader status is the right fit for their business or if alternative Customs reliefs such as Customs warehousing or inward processing, or even supply chain modification may be more appropriate.

What is Authorised Economic Operator?

AEO is an EU wide program designed for “trusted traders” who are able to demonstrate consistent quality, compliance and trustworthiness in their supply chain to Customs authorities.  AEO status does not eliminate potential tariffs on importation of goods but it can significantly help mitigate non-tariff costs associated with international trade in particular simplifying the importation and exportation process and bringing faster and more efficient clearance of goods at Customs frontiers.

Seminar Content:
• Overview of AEO
• Compliance criteria
• Safety, security & customs
• Understand the types of policies & procedures that may be required
• Application and authorisation process

Who is this seminar for
• Managers/Directors with responsibility for customs control & compliance
• Financial/ Supply Chain/ Logistics Managers
• Import/Export Administrators who have responsibilities for controlling declaration

Our HMRC seminars are regularly over-subscribed, therefore to secure your place please register your interest with Stephanie Warrington as soon as possible on s.warrington@chamberelancs.co.uk or call 01254 356473

Please note when booking an event: refunds cannot be given for cancellations received 48 hours or less before the event booked.

Is your business ready for Brexit?

Does your company use customs agents and intermediaries to help you trade with the EU?

If so, you need to know how to meet customs requirements fast and efficiently after the UK leaves the EU. There will be new processes to follow and new forms to complete.

We can help.

Our training will highlight what you need to know to be able to accurately complete a simple customs declaration.

COURSE OPTIONS:

Face to face classroom courses (full day classroom delivery) and three hours of online e-learning:

Accredited Chamber members £280 + VAT

Non-members £350 + VAT

Online e-learning: (five hours including assessments)

Accredited Chamber members £190 + VAT

Non-members £230 + VAT

COURSE CONTENT

• Introduction to Trade
• Business Responsibilities
• Export process
• Import process
• Valuation – explanation of the main methods and their application
• Classification – determining the use of commodity codes
• Using Customs Procedure Codes – use of appropriate CPCs
• Export and import controls
• Reliefs
• Preferences
• Customs simplified procedures – explanation of procedures and benefits

COURSE DATES INCLUDE:

22nd November 2019

THIS COURSE IS SUITABLE FOR THOSE WHO NEED AN UNDERSTANDING OF CUSTOMS REGIMES AND HOW TO COMPLETE A BASIC CUSTOMS DECLARATION FORM.

Assessment: no formal exam will be taken however delegates will get to complete simulated forms to ensure they can complete simple customs declarations correctly.

Managing the business after Brexit, trade with EU businesses and non-EU businesses, import and export declarations, commodity codes, trade agreements, DDP deliveries, direct and in-direct exports, special procedures and regimes for importing.

Free to attend, enquiries to Stef Heywood at s.heywood@chamberelancs.co.uk

Our seminars are regularly over-subscribed, therefore to secure your place please register your interest as soon as possible.

Please note when booking an event: refunds cannot be given for cancellations received 48 hours or less before the event booked.

The Sales industry can be a lonely place, full of pressure, targets with little time for self-development. For many sales professionals in East Lancashire, it’s hard to know sometimes where to go to find support and education.

Chamber Sales Professionals Club in partnership with Sales Geek is the new home for sales professionals. We aren’t about PowerPoints or lectures; we want to provide a home within Lancashire where sales professionals from all backgrounds, experience levels and industries can learn from each other and find their own route to sales success.

This is not your standard networking event, so while commercial relationships will naturally evolve, please don’t come armed to sell to the room. We want attendees to be able to create business allies, meet peers, learn from each other’s experiences and create long lasting relationships.

About the Hosts
We will have on hand two sales geeks, with over 35 years’ combined experience in sales strategy, direct sales, sales training, sales recruitment, B2B Sales, B2C Sales and business planning to assist you on your journey, as well as special guests on a regular basis.

Members £5 plus vat, non-members £10 plus vat.

This year’s Sales Club is sponsored by Cloud Sauce and Production Print Direct.

Is your business ready for Brexit?

Does your company use customs agents and intermediaries to help you trade with the EU?

If so, you need to know how to meet customs requirements fast and efficiently after the UK leaves the EU. There will be new processes to follow and new forms to complete.

We can help.

Our training will highlight what you need to know to be able to accurately complete a simple customs declaration.

COURSE OPTIONS:

Face to face classroom courses (full day classroom delivery) and three hours of online e-learning:

Accredited Chamber members £280 + VAT

Non-members £350 + VAT

Online e-learning: (five hours including assessments)

Accredited Chamber members £190 + VAT

Non-members £230 + VAT

COURSE CONTENT

• Introduction to Trade
• Business Responsibilities
• Export process
• Import process
• Valuation – explanation of the main methods and their application
• Classification – determining the use of commodity codes
• Using Customs Procedure Codes – use of appropriate CPCs
• Export and import controls
• Reliefs
• Preferences
• Customs simplified procedures – explanation of procedures and benefits

THIS COURSE IS SUITABLE FOR THOSE WHO NEED AN UNDERSTANDING OF CUSTOMS REGIMES AND HOW TO COMPLETE A BASIC CUSTOMS DECLARATION FORM.

Assessment: no formal exam will be taken however delegates will get to complete simulated forms to ensure they can complete simple customs declarations correctly.

HMRC seminar for businesses looking to store goods with duty and import VAT suspended.

Will you be buying from the EU after the UK leaves the EU?

To continue to support businesses with buying raw materials and stock from overseas, HMRC can help importers to store goods in the UK with duty and import VAT payments suspended.

This seminar will take a look at Customs Warehousing, a process which allows authorised traders to store goods with duty or import VAT payments suspended, until such time they are sold or the goods are no longer required to be stored.

SEMINAR CONTENT

> What is a Customs Warehouse?
> Benefits, responsibilities, administration and operational requirements
> Authorisation Process
> HMRC compliance and checklist – is it for my business ?

WHO IS THIS SEMINAR FOR

UK traders buying from outside the EU. Important: This may become particularly relevant to companies that currently trade predominantly with the EU, where there are currently no tariffs on UK imports from the EU.

Please note when booking an event: refunds cannot be given for cancellations received 48 hours or less before the event booked.

Logistics Group is a brand new network for 2019 aimed at the Logistics sector, including HGV warehousing distribution.

This group will provide Lancashire businesses with access to information, opportunities and best practice insights as well as providing a forum to meet with their peers. These meetings will be hosted by local companies from within the sector and may include a factory or showroom tour. Unlike many networks, this is a closed group and focuses on the needs of Logistics businesses only.

This event is free to attend, however places are limited and will be allocated strictly on a first come, first served basis.

The Curry Club is an East Lancashire Institution. Since 2006 local businesses have regularly gathered together to network and share a fine curry lunch in a relaxed informal setting. Each event features a guest speaker to inspire or motivate. This year’s Curry Club sponsor is KeyFleet Vehicle Leasing and Fleet Management.

East Lancs Chamber and KeyFleet are working on an exciting line-up of guest speakers for this event, including Founder of M+ILK PLUS, Camilla Ainsworth.

Fresh from finishing runner up on this year’s BBC The Apprentice, Blackburn born Camilla quickly got to work agreeing a deal with Holland and Barrett to sell her nut milk product M+LK Plus. Like all great products Camilla’s nut milk idea was born of necessity after becoming frustrated with the lack of choice available for those that don’t drink cow’s milk. Camilla has had one heck of an amazing year and will be sharing her story with us all!

Book online now at https://www.chamberelancs.co.uk/latest-events/.

Alternatively, contact Debbi Dawson on 01254 356439 / 07989 978 287 or email d.dawson@chamberelancs.co.uk for more information.

Members £25 plus vat, non-members £35 plus vat.

Businesses can use Inward Processing to get relief from Customs Duty and import VAT on goods that are imported from outside the EU to be processed, and then exported outside the EU, or released for free circulation in the EU.

Outward Processing allows EU traders to temporarily export goods from the EU for processing or repair in a third (non-EU) country and then claim full or partial duty relief when the goods are re-imported.

This seminar will provide an overview of these reliefs, and share valuable tips and advice on how these reliefs could work for your business.

Please note when booking an event: refunds cannot be given for cancellations received 48 hours or less before the event booked.

Be amongst the first to see the latest economic survey results when they are revealed by Stephen Gregson, Corporate Finance Director at MHA Moore and Smalley.

The Lancashire Quarterly Economic Survey measures trends on sales, exports, workforce levels, investment and business confidence and is a leading indicator of economic performance. It contributes to the British Chambers of Commerce Quarterly Economic Survey which is used by Government and the Bank of England when making major economic decisions such as setting interest rates.

The presentation will be preceded with an opportunity to network with other businesses over a light breakfast. The event is FREE to members and non-members of the Chamber.

HAVE YOUR SAY!!
Ever felt like telling the Government what it’s REALLY like being in business in 2019? Well, here’s your chance. The BCC’s Quarterly Economic Survey is a highly respected snapshot of economic conditions for business. It is taken seriously by Central Government, is one of only three national surveys regularly used by the Bank of England when setting monetary policy and is reported widely in the media.

To receive your personal invitation to have your say, subscribe to our mailing list at https://bit.ly/2RPXFXy

Special Procedures are schemes available to importers and exporters to waiver, suspend or drawback customs duties. When operating under a Special Procedure goods are still within the control of HMRC even though they have been released from the place of arrival.

Under any authorisation process HMRC checks that the company has relevant written procedures and skilled staff and determines how to use and maintain records for each procedure so it is important to understand your obligations.

Understanding these procedures can help in identifying which scheme can be used in a given situation, minimise import duty payments and subsequently benefit cash flow within your business.

SEMINAR CONTENT

• Processing: Inward Processing (IP) and Outward Processing (OP) relief
• Specific Use: Temporary Admissions (TA), End Use Relief (EnU) scheme and ATA Carnets.
• Storage: Customs Warehousing (CW)
• Transit: Internal and External transit
• Summary Questions and feedback

Our seminars are regularly over-subscribed, therefore to secure your place please register your interest as soon as possible.

Please note when booking an event: refunds cannot be given for cancellations received 48 hours or less before the event booked.

This seminar is aimed at businesses that are either thinking about applying for AEO or have just started the application process. This practical session will run through the AEO framework with hands on advice and support on how to benefit from AEO.

For traders currently examining their options to determine if AEO trusted trader status is the right fit for their business or if alternative Customs reliefs such as Customs warehousing or inward processing, or even supply chain modification may be more appropriate.

What is Authorised Economic Operator?

AEO is an EU wide program designed for “trusted traders” who are able to demonstrate consistent quality, compliance and trustworthiness in their supply chain to Customs authorities.  AEO status does not eliminate potential tariffs on importation of goods but it can significantly help mitigate non-tariff costs associated with international trade in particular simplifying the importation and exportation process and bringing faster and more efficient clearance of goods at Customs frontiers.

Seminar Content:
• Overview of AEO
• Compliance criteria
• Safety, security & customs
• Understand the types of policies & procedures that may be required
• Application and authorisation process

Who is this seminar for
• Managers/Directors with responsibility for customs control & compliance
• Financial/ Supply Chain/ Logistics Managers
• Import/Export Administrators who have responsibilities for controlling declaration

Our HMRC seminars are regularly over-subscribed, therefore to secure your place please register your interest with Stephanie Warrington as soon as possible on s.warrington@chamberelancs.co.uk or call 01254 356473

Please note when booking an event: refunds cannot be given for cancellations received 48 hours or less before the event booked.

Businesses can use Inward Processing to get relief from Customs Duty and import VAT on goods that are imported from outside the EU to be processed, and then exported outside the EU, or released for free circulation in the EU.

Outward Processing allows EU traders to temporarily export goods from the EU for processing or repair in a third (non-EU) country and then claim full or partial duty relief when the goods are re-imported.

This seminar will provide an overview of these reliefs, and share valuable tips and advice on how these reliefs could work for your business.

Please note when booking an event: refunds cannot be given for cancellations received 48 hours or less before the event booked.

HMRC seminar for businesses looking to store goods with duty and import VAT suspended.

Will you be buying from the EU after the UK leaves the EU?

To continue to support businesses with buying raw materials and stock from overseas, HMRC can help importers to store goods in the UK with duty and import VAT payments suspended.

This seminar will take a look at Customs Warehousing, a process which allows authorised traders to store goods with duty or import VAT payments suspended, until such time they are sold or the goods are no longer required to be stored.

SEMINAR CONTENT

> What is a Customs Warehouse?
> Benefits, responsibilities, administration and operational requirements
> Authorisation Process
> HMRC compliance and checklist – is it for my business ?

WHO IS THIS SEMINAR FOR

UK traders buying from outside the EU. Important: This may become particularly relevant to companies that currently trade predominantly with the EU, where there are currently no tariffs on UK imports from the EU.

Please note when booking an event: refunds cannot be given for cancellations received 48 hours or less before the event booked.