ChamberCustoms, in collaboration with Trade and Borders
Hybrid Customs Workshops - what makes them different?
Hybrid Customs Workshops are a mix of customs training and consultancy.
Perhaps you have attended a customs webinar or training course and felt like it was too generic, or you could not apply what you’ve seen and heard into practice. Most webinars focus on the theory with few real-life examples and fail to relate to the participants’ day-to-day work or their companies’ specific needs.
Trade & Borders Hybrid Customs Skills Workshops:
Teach a step-by-step process of how a professional customs consultant or customs officer would classify a product or determine its origin. You can start applying these skills in practice.
Are bespoke and adjusted to the participant's level of understanding and industry.
Smaller groups of up to 5 participants allow for a proper deep dive, ensuring that all participants will be fully engaged and have the time dedicated to them by the Trade & Borders Coach.
Provide a consultancy and training combined approach on your chosen topic.
These hybrid workshops are delivered by a globally recognised customs consultant, a Trade & Borders Coach, who has developed and delivered courses for many private sector clients, including UK Government Departments and the United Nations agency, and is currently working with HMRC.
On the day, your trainer will provide you with in-depth and topical coverage in a relaxed but professional setting.
What’s included in the Workshop?
The Trade & Borders Coach will engage with an initial email or call to:
Establish the level of knowledge
Find out more about your company
Ask for examples that the trainer can use during the workshop.
A chance to outline any specific questions or issues the attendees would like the workshop to address.
This initial conversation will be followed by a one-day online or in-house customs workshop at your company’s premises.
Participants will learn about rules relating to their specific industries, discussing case studies built around examples and questions provided by them before the workshop.
Following the workshop session, your Trade & Borders Coach will provide a 1-2-1 call to discuss any outstanding questions, commercially sensitive issues or work through a practical example from their organisation.
Trade & Borders offer two hybrid workshops, one on goods classification and the other on rules of origin.
The most fundamental tasks a company needs to perform are classification and determining the origin, ensuring compliance with customs rules.
Commodity Codes Training Workshop - Trade & Borders
What does the Commodity Codes Hybrid Workshop cover?
The basics of commodity codes: their structure and purpose
Different types of commodity codes: how do you know you’re using the right one?
Essential background on how commodity codes are harmonised and updated
The Tariff and how to read it
Basic rules of classification
Specific language and logic of classification based on participants’ examples
Where to find help
A step-by-step classification exercise
Tips and tricks of the trade
Borderline cases, such as what to do when your business can use more than one commodity code.
The risks of using the wrong commodity code and what to watch out for
What to do when HMRC or other customs authorities question the commodity codes you declared
Classification rulings – can they be beneficial for your business?
Rules of Origin Training Workshop - Trade & Borders
What will the Rules of Origin Hybrid Workshop cover?
Where to find rules of origin for your product under any trade agreement
How to understand product-specific rules of origin
When would you need to recalculate value-added content
Broader origin provisions such as de minimis, rules for sets and the principle of territoriality, and when companies need to pay attention to them
The different types of cumulation and how to use them
How to use cumulation of working and processing
Extended cumulation and what documents you need to hold to use this under UK’s continuity deals
Complex supply chain and origin – how to deal with third-party invoicing
The approved exporter scheme and REX
Suppliers’ declarations and who needs them
Can a product lose its originating status?
How to certify the origin
What documentary evidence do you need to have in case of an audit?
Is it worth applying for an origin ruling?
What origin should you declare when there is no trade agreement in place
Substantial transformation, and when simple assembly is no longer simple?
Dates and Prices
£2,000 + VAT per attendee, or per individual quote for in-house training.
Commodity Codes Hybrid Workshop
Rules of Origin Hybrid Workshop
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We helped traders export over £16bn of goods in 2021 alone. Our customs agents and instructors are experienced experts in international trade.
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