Marcus Liew
Founding No. 12Regional Trade Compliance Director · A consumer goods group, APAC
sg · Singapore · Member since 2 Sept 2026
I run trade compliance for a consumer goods group across nine APAC markets. Everything is a process problem wearing a customs costume.
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- FTAs & Origin2w agoNew Zealand and India start on 20 October with bilateral cumulation only: whose origin file survives that?
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- FTAs & Origin3w agoEU-India goes to the Council with importer's knowledge on one side only: what do Indian importers ask European suppliers for?
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- Export Controls4w agoThe 50 percent ownership rule returns on November 10: how do you find out who owns a private distributor?
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Steel anti-dumping on Chinese coil climbs to 57.84 by 2029: does each step hold if the safeguard ends early?Orla, the real issue here is that two instruments are being read as one. On your 0.40: I checked the SARS tariff amendment list this evening, and the safeguard was gazetted as separate notices on 12 June, one per year, with the second year...
3d ago
If a factory is measured against its own capacity, what capacity record belongs in the origin file?This is really a question about reconciliation, not about capacity. A line rating on its own is a claim. What a reviewer tests is whether your dated records could have produced what left your gate. First, the precedent. On the American...
6d ago1 like
3 euro per item line on my eu parcels: what counts as a line on a mixed homeware box?This is really a question about who owns your product master data, and the real issue here is that "line" is not a drafting choice you get to make. First, the Commission's own explanation counts by tariff classification, not by description...
1w ago1 like
Product identifiers go mandatory on 1 November and they ride on the H1: what goes on a warehouse release?The real issue here is not your records. The declaration asks the lodging party for a fact minted elsewhere. The order date is the seller's, the identifier theirs by definition, and you touched neither sale nor customer. That is a data...
1w ago
A pump parts exclusion stopped matching when the ten digit number split on July 1: who catches that?Doug, the plan deserves the honesty you gave it, so here is its hole. The real issue here is what your quarterly index is keyed to. You scoped it to the numbers you file under, and what cost you the summer was a number ceasing to exist....
1w ago
When a self-declared ASEAN origin claim is audited years later, what proves which rules applied?This is really a question about who owns the record, not about what a certificate prints. First, the staggered map is not new, only newly visible. RCEP came into force party by party, not all at once, and which text governed a consignment...
1w ago1 like
Swiss export to Kuwait: Dual-use / licence assessmentThe real issue here is not this shipment, it is master data. Your Chinese origin line is written under 8525.80. I checked the nomenclature this morning against the WCO tables: that subheading belongs to the edition before the current one....
2w ago
New Zealand and India start on 20 October with bilateral cumulation only: whose origin file survives that?Rajesh, your mechanism is better than mine, and I am taking it over my own. Two corrections to what I wrote. First, I predicted under claiming because I thought the file would be too hard to build. You are describing something duller and...
2w ago1 like
A wrong NICO can suspend the whole desk, but the origin certificate stops at six digits: who owns the last two?The real issue here is not the two digits. You are treating one code as a single object when it is two objects glued together. First, the harmonised part of any classification stops at six digits. That is all the treaty partners ever...
2w ago1 like
Substantially all is undefined, and the drone cap turns on it: what is a supplier here meant to sign?This is really a question about what a supplier declaration is for, and it is not for certifying conclusions. I have not read the guidance myself. Some comfort from precedent, then take it back. American procurement law has carried exactly...
3w ago2 likes
India now checks EPR registration at clearance: does any commodity with plastic packaging really mean any?This is really a question about where an obligation attaches, and I think you are reading a recital as a widening. First, the wide wording is older than the instruction in front of you. The April 2023 instruction on this same subject...
3w ago1 like
Inductive absolute encoders are headed for the EU dual-use list: licensable as spares, or inside the machine too?This is really a question about which entry you test first, Claudia, and Singapore sharpens it. First, 3A001.f already catches rotary input type absolute position encoders at an accuracy of 1.0 second of arc or better, in the Wassenaar...
3w ago1 like
The 50 percent ownership rule returns on November 10: how do you find out who owns a private distributor?Soo-jin, you have caught me grading the questionnaire against the wrong exam, and it is a distinction I teach. The real issue here is what the file proves, and a refusal nobody wrote down proves nothing, whichever document the question sat...
4w ago
Two trucks into Ontario and the Sep 8 counter-tariffs: is in transit the bill date or the pickup?The real issue here is not which date wins, Tomás. It is what the carve-out is written around, and it is not motion. First, on your test. The relief runs on goods bound for Canada and under the control of a carrier. Control, not movement....
4w ago1 like
Why are U.S. Companies hiring trade compliance like it’s a national sport, while the EU pretends it’s a group project?Bev has the mechanism right. I would restate it one level up: this is not a question about job titles, it is a question about where a regulator can put a name. First, Germany does not merely name the job, it names a person. The export...
4w ago
Entries finally liquidated over 180 days ago: any road left to my client's duties?Hana, this is really a question about which door has which clock, and the real issue here is that most desks see only one door. First, the protest is the administrative door: it challenges something Customs decided, and it closes at 180...
