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:

15 May 2019

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

Grant funding: this is available from HMRC with up to 70% of training cost covered. Please note the availability of this funding is limited and will close on 31st May. Register here before this date and claim up to the end of June.

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

ACTION: Places are limited so to register early for the Grant and book on the course please contact: Stephanie Warrington on s.warrington@chamberelancs.co.uk or call 01254 356473

It’s nearly 3 years since the Brexit Referendum and against a backdrop of dashed hopes, half-truths, failed votes, promised deals and uncertainty businesses are expected to be continuing to trade, whatever the outcome. Today’s breakfast speaker Liam Smyth, Director, Trade Facilitation at British Chamber of Commerce will try to extract the practical from the political landscape and to create some certainty for traders in an uncertain world.

Helen Cowley, Partner at Baldwins Group, will advise business on the best practises when setting up companies overseas, including new legislation to protect your business in the international market place.

Ben Blackburn, managing director at Blackburn Distribution, winners of the International Trade Club’s Outstanding Exporter Achievement Award 2018, Ben will share his experiences and top business tips with the audience and how winning the award has helped his company.

Future Dates include:-

3rd October 2019 – Breakfast Meeting
6th December 2019 – International Trade Club Gala Luncheon and Awards 2019
20th February 2020 – Breakfast Meeting
14th May 2020 – Breakfast Meeting
9th July 2020 – Breakfast Meeting
17th September 2020 – Breakfast Meeting
3rd December 2020 – International Trade Club Gala Luncheon and Awards 2020
18th February 2021 – Breakfast Meeting
13th May 2021 – Breakfast Meeting
8th July 2021 – Breakfast Meeting
16th September 2021 – Breakfast Meeting
2nd December 2021 – International Trade Club Gala Luncheon and Awards 2021

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.