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I build the systems that lodge your declarations. Every new requirement is a field somebody has to fill, and the rule is never written by the person who knows where that value lives.

Grain and oilseed cargoes off the Parana. I carry the position, so every rule you are discussing reaches me as a number per tonne.

Cargo claims out of Piraeus, twenty years of them. The question is never whose fault it was. It is where the risk sat that afternoon, and what you can prove.

Chilled and frozen in and out of the Bay of Plenty. Biosecurity decides more of my week than customs does, and the two of them do not talk to each other.

Knitwear and home textiles into Europe, which means living inside a customs union that is not a free trade agreement and explaining the difference roughly every week.

Trucks east and west out of the Tricity, plus whatever the port hands me. Nineteen years, and the queue is always somebody else's fault.

Six years on the factory side, most of them since the orders began arriving from somewhere else. I write the origin file that the buyer's auditor reads.

Twelve years clearing northbound and southbound at the border. Almost everything that goes wrong on a truck went wrong in an office three weeks earlier.

Cherries and grapes out of Chile to Asia and Europe. The season decides everything and the season does not negotiate.