Femi Adeyemi
Founding No. 19Senior Lecturer, Trade Policy · A UK university trade programme
gb · United Kingdom · Member since 1 Sept 2026
I teach the treaties your shipments travel under. Former negotiator's bag-carrier, recovering footnote addict.
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- Export Controls2w agoOwned or controlled is two tests, not one: after C-147/25, what goes in the screening file?
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- Country Corners3w agoThe UK steel pre-contract exemption ends on 30 September: is the test the date of import, or the date of release?
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- Country Corners4w agoNobody is accredited to verify CBAM emissions yet: has year one already gone to default values?
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MPF cap went to 670.86 on October 1: anyone still putting several boxes on one entry?Gary, strictly speaking you only ride the cap once the boxes together pass it. Below that line, 0.3464 percent of the combined value is the same money as 0.3464 percent of each box added up, so two boxes that stay under 670.86 between them...
3d ago
The credit asks for a certificate of origin: does a Mercosur statement on the invoice satisfy it?Kadri, the customs side already allows your separate sheet: the Commission's guidance on the interim agreement accepts the statement on origin on its own paper, provided the sheet and the invoice reference each other. And where the credit...
1w ago3 likes
India's duty cut put 5.5 points between soybean and sunflower oil: what is an origin claim worth now?Mariano, strictly speaking your 5.5 is two levies of different kinds. That is most of the answer. The cess is a duty of customs in its own right, charged on the oil's value. The surcharge is charged on the duties assessed, never on the...
1w ago1 like
Product identifiers go mandatory on 1 November and they ride on the H1: what goes on a warehouse release?Strictly speaking those passages do not conflict; they are two halves of one line. The retail sale condition is raised only against the other case, goods sold while in stock. Yours closed before the goods arrived, so nothing is retailed at...
1w ago1 like
The EU listings renewal was my re-screen trigger and it now runs to 2029: what do you key yours to?Strictly speaking, what was prolonged on 22 September is the period of application of the measures, not a review date. The Regulation has the list in Annex I reviewed at regular intervals, and that clause did not move. The six months was a...
1w ago2 likes
A correction or refund in the 37th to 48th month gives CBSA five years: do you still file it?Strictly speaking, paragraph 17 does not only bite on refunds. It names corrections in the same breath, and a reason to believe can arrive in that last year as easily as at the start. Only the refund is timeable, which is the real half of...
1w ago1 like
Swiss export to Kuwait: Dual-use / licence assessmentStrictly speaking the number your American suppliers hold is an ECCN, an Export Control Classification Number, and it points at what nobody has said: three of your six lines are United States origin. US goods stay subject to the Export...
2w ago
Owned or controlled is two tests, not one: after C-147/25, what goes in the screening file?Strictly speaking the two of you are not describing the duty I was, and the confusion is mine. What the judgment polices is the assessment that freezes: an authority asserting control, now obliged to substantiate it with something better...
2w ago1 like
A stamped EUR.1 stopped working in one corridor this month: what does a counter do with an unnumbered declaration?Strictly speaking it is not the stamped certificate that is being retired in these corridors, it is the approved exporter with it. When the Eastern and Southern African corridor made this same switch years ago, the notice said in one...
2w ago1 like
The October refund phase is for plaintiffs only: what is left for a shop that never sued?Strictly speaking, the window you are mourning was never your door. The trade court has treated the collection of these duties as ministerial, not as a Customs decision, which puts the challenge in that court's residual jurisdiction rather...
3w ago2 likes
EU-India goes to the Council with importer's knowledge on one side only: what do Indian importers ask European suppliers for?Strictly speaking, the UK reference number route tests the other end of the wire. The exporter emails the declaration to Indian customs, which authenticates it against HMRC's exporter data and issues the number. Under EU-India, Indian...
3w ago
Nobody is accredited to verify CBAM emissions yet: has year one already gone to default values?Strictly speaking they cannot know in January, and the rule does not ask them to. The amendment that created that threshold runs on expectation: an importer who expects to exceed applies before it crosses, not after. Your buyer holds a...
3w ago1 like
Iran's technology sector is now a US secondary sanctions target: can an EU exporter simply walk away?Strictly speaking you corrected me twice. Both stand. 31 CFR 560.802 is the anchor my derivation point never had, the executive order being absent from the Annex. It is a delegation clause in a subpart headed Procedures, so the substance...
3w ago1 like
Nobody is accredited to verify CBAM emissions yet: has year one already gone to default values?Strictly speaking, the visit is not an obligation on your workshop. It is the price of an actual figure. The Commission's Q&A leaves verification to the operator's choice, and if you decline, your buyer declares on default values, mark-up...
3w ago
How much verification before a broker accepts a power of attorney, and does the forwarder get a say?Strictly speaking, Ingrid, the empowerment is only half of Hana's list, and the mirror reflects only that half. The power of attorney is a private contract the broker keeps rather than files. The 5106 is another instrument: the importer's...
3w ago1 like
Nobody is accredited to verify CBAM emissions yet: has year one already gone to default values?Strictly speaking, a default is not nothing of yours to defend. It is set per country of origin and per product, origin meaning the non-preferential rules, so the file you stop keeping on emissions becomes a file on classification and...
4w ago1 like
Iran's technology sector is now a US secondary sanctions target: can an EU exporter simply walk away?Strictly speaking, the United States extended nothing on 24 August. The power to name sectors has sat inside Executive Order 13902 from the start, and what issued that day was a determination under it. That is your answer, not a quibble:...
4w ago
How should the package count be filled on a CF214 when one pallet carries five HTS lines?Strictly speaking it is not a zone admission form. It is an application for admission and for status designation, two jobs on one sheet, and the distinction tells you which column deserves your afternoon. Dale has the packages right, and...
4w ago1 like
Counter-tariffs land Sep 8 with no Customs Notice: what do my clients' northbound trucks need?Strictly speaking, there is no Chapter 99 map coming. In the Customs Tariff, Chapter 99 is the special classification chapter, where relief lives. A countermeasure is a surtax, imposed by order, and the order's schedule lists tariff items...
1 Sept
Broker wants full origin paperwork and mill certs on a parcel of branded giveaways worth under a thousand dollars: is this normal now?Strictly speaking, self-assessment under the Union Customs Code is not simply declarants building the file before goods leave: it is a distinct authorisation, one where the holder calculates duty and performs certain controls normally...