Customs Consulting

Customs consulting is a professional service where you get advice and guidance on your import and export procedures. This can be for a specific issue, such as goods classification or origin determination, or it can be for a general health check.

A good customs consultant will look at your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in relation to your processes, and work with you to minimise risk, improve your efficiency, and save money where possible.

Customs Support Group provides customs consulting alongside our customs and trade solutions. Available throughout Europe, we give you the local and global expertise you need to unlock the efficiency within your customs function.

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During the review of your processes, a customs consultant will look to see how you can be more efficient or save money generally. 

For example, you may have a permit that looks efficient but the labour cost and fees required to maintain it outweigh the savings. 

Another example is where some of your goods could benefit from a special procedure which suspends or eliminates your tax spend – protecting your cashflow and overall margins.

By implementing a digital solution, you may reduce your costs threefold: less labour costs, fewer issues leading to missed deliveries or storage charges, and fewer penalties for noncompliance.

Our customs consultants take a holistic approach to saving you money and mankind your operation more efficient.

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Any organisation involved in international trade can benefit from customs consulting. Whether you are importing, exporting, or providing a logistics service, you need to have efficient and compliant border processes. This is what a customs consultant helps you to achieve.

Although a simple, one country, one commodity type of operation has its risks, the greatest exposure to inefficiency or non-compliance naturally lies with more complex supply chains.

When you are working with complicated operations – such as those in retail, manufacturing, or automotive supply chains – you are far more likely to have inefficiency or a risk which is being overlooked or taken as a given.

A customs consultant will help you to make your processes more efficient, leverage special procedures, and save you money whilst reducing your risk of performance or noncompliance.

CSG provides customs and trade solutions that improve your supply chain, with proven results in complicated operations.

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There are many risks when trading internationally, some of which are not in your control as a business. However, there are two risk categories which are within your control when it comes to customs:

• Inefficiency: how well your flows work, and where there is a risk for error, delay, or overspending.
• Legal compliance: how well your organisation meets its obligations for ancillary functions such as goods classification, due diligence, reporting, or labelling.

Both of these expose your organisation to financial, reputational, or legal complications if they are not monitored and held to a good standard.

A good customs consultant will work with you to identify where you are at risk of inefficiency or legal noncompliance, then help you to save money, improve your processes and safeguard your business from problems.

Customs Support Group is the number one provider of customs and trade solutions in Europe. Our customs consultants have helped businesses globally to improve their efficiency, safeguard their operations from legal issues, and save money.

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If you do not address legal risks within your supply chain – such as an upcoming sustainability regulation, a failure to perform due diligence on exported dual-use goods, or an omission of reporting on your operations – then you can face severe penalties.

Some examples of these penalties are:

• Fines
• The removal of licences or permits
• Reputational damage through the press
• Held or seized goods
• Withdrawal of AEO
• Prohibitions on trade

Furthermore, you can waste money within your organisation due to inefficiency, which is avoidable but may go undetected whilst your flows are not forced into review.

A customs consultant helps you identify risks and take corrective action before they become major problems. They also work with you to create more efficient flows and take advantage of digital solutions which improve your accuracy and compliance.

CSG has a proven track record for improving operations of all kinds throughout Europe.

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