Customs advice
A full customs advisory service
An experienced customs advisor provides a full customs advisory service for all your customs needs post Brexit: first make sure your goods keep moving, then plan the optimum medium-term strategy for your business.
The Post Brexit Challenge
Planning for business post Brexit means looking beyond customs declarations. The changes around Brexit represent a permanent change to your trading environment that requires a two-tier response: first make sure that your goods will continue to move; then consider what the optimum medium-term strategy is for your business.
How it works
Customs advisory service: how it works
Custran customs advisors work through a checklist with you and help you to compile a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) for your company. We work on a strategic level and will not ask for any confidential or commercially sensitive data, unless it is required as part of work you ask us to do.
Checklist topics
Topics our customs advisors work through with you and your team.
- 1Objective 1: continue, grow or retrench to core activity
- 2Objective 2: integrated standalone business or core with outsourcing
- 3Your industry and type of business
- 4Nature of trade: type of goods, frequency, value, complexity
- 5Business integration: role of third party service providers
- 6Trading partners and network: formal contracts, invoices, Incoterms
- 7Preparedness: registrations, authorisations, licences, commodity codes
- 8Strength of accounting, logistics and stock control systems
- 9Experience and knowledge of international trade and customs
Your analysis and report
The information from the checklist discussion is analysed and we report back to you with our best advice on the way forward, under the following headings.
- 1Capacity of the business: scale, maturity, stability, governance
- 2Agility: potential for change, financial, skill and physical constraints
- 3Strength of market position: scope for negotiation
- 4Challenges and opportunities of Brexit: direct and indirect
- 5Options
Based on the analysis and our work together, customs declarations templates for use on Custran’s software will also be set up for your use, if you decide to manage your own customs declarations and compliance.
Your advisor
Tony Buckley
Our customs advisor Tony Buckley is available to evaluate your company’s requirements, and advise on best practices regarding customs procedures.
Once head of Revenue’s Customs Division, Tony now operates his own customs consultancy. In addition to advising corporate clients, he is Chair of the Customs Knowledge Institute and currently leads courses for Vytautas Magnus University, Chartered Accountants Ireland, and the International Trade Institute. His extensive knowledge of tax and customs combined with wide and varied teaching and consultancy experience has made him an internationally respected source of advice and guidance.
Rates
EUR 395 + VAT
A standard business customs analysis and report costs EUR 395 + VAT.
You can also engage our advisor for half day or full day consultations, or get a full written report. Rates on request.