Thank you for the early warning.
On your first point: the entry must come from whoever carries the procedure, so your agent's only remaining shape is direct representation, signing in that person's name. On your second: the declarant for warehousing must also be established in the Union, and warehousing is not among the procedures that excuse establishment. Your owner cannot be declarant at all. Someone in the Union has to take the procedure and the debt with it, or the lane stays outside this authorisation. As a parallel, not your law: a broker here is the importer's agent and never files in his own name, so a foreign owner needs someone in India to stand as importer. Is your floor being asked to take it? May the application go smoothly.
Not asked: we already do it for part of the floor. The keeper stands as declarant and carries the procedure and the debt. Owners who will not fund the guarantee stay outside.
Sander, your closing line about the guarantee is the part I keep rereading, because we stand as declarant for stock we do not own on part of our floor too, and that call is not made at my desk.
It goes up as a credit question. Ours is sized on the worst case duty and VAT in the building at once, so the ceiling is finite. Finance want the owner indemnifying us in writing, and security of their own before a new one's first pallet lands.
What I did not expect is that the ceiling makes us ration. Headroom one owner's stock is using is headroom another cannot have, and once it is spoken for the declaration will not go through at all. So the gate is not only an owner refusing to pay: sometimes it is us choosing between owners, well above compliance.
When the answer is no the stock does not wait. It is cleared and the duty paid, or it goes to a hub where somebody else will carry it.
Am I reading too much into one line?