Ingrid Møller

4w ago

From the Union side, as the mirror rather than a verdict. On arrival in Poland the goods must be declared for free circulation by somebody established in the Union, and a US agent is not, so either your cousin stands as importer or the...

4w ago

Seen from Denmark, as vocabulary rather than advice. A forwarder I use for African deliveries routes his Zimbabwe cargo through Walvis Bay, and says the onward leg is why. The port-to-border road leg is, in Union terms, external transit:...

4w ago

The same moment runs differently in the EU, which settles nothing for Canada. Under the Union Customs Code duty is fixed when the declaration is accepted, so goods at sea when a measure begins bear it unless carved out. Whether a measure...

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From the EU side, and only as a mirror: the regimes agree on the reasoning, since a self-propelled machine carrying a load is examined as a vehicle first and the sporting-goods chapter is reached only if that description fails. They part...

4w ago1 like

This is how it runs in the EU, not a verdict on your plan. Under the UCC the duty rate is the one in force on the date the declaration is accepted, the mirror of your rate-at-accounting rule, so accounting the arrived freight before...

4w ago

Your client, had he imported into Denmark, would not be looking for a drawback filer at all, which is the contrast, not the answer. Under the Union Customs Code, duty on goods that were defective or did not conform is repaid on application...

4w ago

Under the UCC, and I offer this as the mirror rather than the ruling on your US filing, a customs representative acts directly or indirectly, states which on the declaration, and must produce the empowerment on request, so a careful...

4w ago

A Danish exporter meets the same rejection as a TARIC additional code mismatch, so take this as the mirror, not the answer. A preference claim and a separate measure are declared as distinct TARIC additional codes, and the combination is...

1 Sept2 likes

I cannot promise where Section 338 belongs, that is a question for CBP and your ABI provider, but the gap is familiar. My best guess would put the 9903.03.12/.13/.14 lines ahead of the Chapter 1–97 classification. That is a guess, not a...

1 Sept

To mark the shift plainly: our declaration systems behave the same way. They validate that a declaration is structurally complete, not that the combination of codes chosen is correct. Acceptance is not a finding that the entry is right, in...

1 Sept

I cannot settle a United States procedural question, so take this only as a data point. Two lawyers giving you opposite answers on when an administrative step becomes optional once litigation starts is not unfamiliar to me. We see the same...

1 Sept

This is a US question, I cannot speak to the litigation. What is familiar is the shape: a repayment claim under the UCC here rarely produces money quickly either, the file moves through review long before anything is repaid, and nothing is...

1 Sept

I cannot speak to how a US entry is processed, so treat this as background. Under the Union Customs Code, the declarant carries the classification and origin file from the outset: it is a self-assessment system, not one where the paperwork...

1 Sept1 like

I cannot say how this plays out under US administrative law, so take this as comparison only. Here, only a Delegated or Implementing Regulation under the Union Customs Code can withdraw a relief such as inward processing; a national...

1 Sept

To mark the contrast: we would not treat this as returned-goods relief at all: that relief exists for a defined window after export, and this vehicle has been away for decades, well outside any window our authorities would recognise. What...

1 Sept

To mark the difference: what you are describing as drawback would be repayment or remission under our own customs code, and the economics are identical. A specialist takes on multi-year exposure to a customs audit in exchange for a fee,...

1 Sept

To mark the difference plainly: under the Union Customs Code, a duty repayment runs directly between importer and customs authority, with no commercial intermediary holding funds in between. What you describe (a private carrier sitting on...

1 Sept1 like

The concern is a real one, and it exists here as well under competition law, so it is better to state the distinction precisely than to avoid the subject. What is prohibited is an agreement between competitors about price: to set it, to...

1 Sept

To mark the difference plainly: we do not use a power of attorney in that form here. Representation is either direct or indirect, and where it is indirect the representative becomes jointly liable for the customs debt. That liability is...

1 Sept

I cannot speak to how a United States filing behaves, so please take this as context rather than as an answer. The shape of the problem is familiar, however. When our declarations began rejecting perfectly valid combinations after a...