Tax and Customs
Customs and International Law
Imports, exports, special customs regimes and international contracts.
Goods held at customs are a cost that accrues by the day. The causes are usually familiar: a divergent tariff classification, a questioned valuation, a missing license or inconsistent documents. Customs work covers both the release and the structure that prevents the next hold.
Situations the area handles
- Goods held in a customs inspection channel.
- Reclassification by the authorities, with a demand for the difference and a fine.
- Challenge to the declared customs value and valuation set by the authority.
- Forfeiture penalty applied to goods or to a vehicle.
- Fine for an error in an import declaration or for late filing of information.
- Operation that would benefit from drawback, bonded warehousing or another special regime.
- International sale contract with no Incoterm, governing law or forum defined.
What the work produces
- Requests for release of goods, administrative and judicial.
- Defense in customs administrative proceedings and challenges to forfeiture.
- Tariff classification analysis and formal ruling requests.
- Radar registration and enrollment in special customs regimes.
- International purchase and sale, distribution and agency contracts.
- Legal structuring of import operations on behalf of third parties or to order.
When to seek it
On the first day of a hold. Absent urgency, before starting a new import route or changing the structure of the operation.
Talk about customs and international law
Describe the transaction and the stage it is at. The reply indicates what needs to be verified before the decision.