Customs training
Online customs training and a full customs training service
Custran provides the best customs software training online and a full customs training service for all your customs needs.
Why traders now need declarations skills
Brexit has brought significant changes to trading in and out of the UK. Traders who previously never had to create and submit customs declarations are now struggling with making entries and with understanding customs procedures.
This has forced many traders to start employing customs agents, which has led to increased costs and staff work hours dealing with getting information correctly sent to agents and the required paperwork completed. Furthermore, exchanging data over telephones, emails, faxes and so on, and not understanding exactly what is needed, has led to delays at ports due to incorrect or inaccurate declarations. This can result in major disruption to both business and customers.
There is an alternative: bring the making of customs declarations in-house by training your staff on how to effectively complete a customs declaration and how to submit entries correctly. Custran can provide this customs training and can provide the software in which the declarations are made, for both Irish and UK entries.
Online customs training
Two main customs training services
Custran provides two main customs training services: Online Customs Software Training and Customs Essentials for Declarants.
Online customs software training
Provided remotely: 4 to 6 hours of training on how to make customs declarations using Custran's proprietary customs software. The time can be completed in one session or over two sessions on different days.
The training includes
- Preview of your company's specific products: HS codes, Incoterms and more
- Different types of entries
- Training on the preparation of customs declarations in the software
- How to use contacts, products, templates and other software features designed to make the process quick and easy
- Submission of declarations to HMRC in the UK and Revenue's ROS system in Ireland
- Handling HMRC and ROS errors and rejections
- Routing, control decisions and paperwork
This training package also includes one month's Custran software subscription and 5 declaration credits, which can be used for import, export or ENS.
EUR 395 to GBP 650
Prices from EUR 395 to GBP 650, depending on what is required.
Customs essentials for declarants
The best customs training service online: a comprehensive course covering aspects of customs procedures that anyone making customs declarations should be aware of, and it includes Online Customs Software Training.
This training will train you or your staff how to
- Submit import and export declarations electronically while remaining compliant
- Classify your products and meet all import and export conditions for moving your goods
- Determine rules of origin, duties and easements that impact your supply chain
- Analyse special procedures and whether these procedures make sense for your business in terms of cost benefit analysis
- Assess agreed INCOTERMS and how they impact the trader's role and responsibilities
For more information and to book a place, contact Custran today.
Detailed training outline
Customs Essentials for Declarants: detailed training outline
Every group below is covered by the course, ending with demonstrations and practice on the Custran test system.
Understanding customs: role of customs in international trade
- What do customs do
- Changing role of customs in international trade
- Customs stakeholders
- Union Customs Code timeframe and implementation
- Introduction of new IT systems
Free trade agreements: overview and benefits
- EU trade agreements
- Types of trade agreements
- EU/UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement and easements
- EU/UK trade agreement and wood products (pallets)
International commercial terms: Incoterms 2020
- What they are
- How they impact roles and responsibilities in the supply chain
- Customs requirements to act as a declarant in a third country (Ex Works and DDP)
- Alternatives to third country establishment (Ex Works and DDP)
Customs compliance and product tariff classification
- What do tariffs do
- What is classification
- Structure and layout
- Using the Taric system: demo and practice
- Commodity conditions
- Authorisations, licences and additional information
- Binding Tariff Information
Rules of origin
- Overview
- Non-preferential origin
- Preferential origin
- Using the Rosa (Rules of Origin Self-Assessment) tool to help determine origin
- Proof of origin
- Proof of origin under the EU/UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement
- Registering for the Registered Exporter System (REX)
Valuation for customs purposes
- How to correctly value your product
- The 6 methods of customs valuation
- Transaction method: primary
- Secondary valuation methods
- Common errors in valuation
Customs clearance processes: entry and exit
- Requirements to submit a declaration electronically
- Roles in the entry and exit of goods
- Process for goods entering the customs territory of the union
- Process for goods exiting the customs territory of the union
- Routing
- Amending or invalidating a customs declaration
- Storing documents
- Customs documentation
Special procedures and simplifications
- What are they
- Who can apply
- Types of simplifications
- Process involved in application
- EU Customs Decision System
- AEO
Customs debt: payment of VAT and duty
- TAN account
- Deferred account
- Permissions and authorisations
- Guarantees
- Claiming preferential tariff treatment
- Returned goods relief
Customs interface: Custran
- Introduction to the Custran test system for submitting customs declarations
- Overview of functionality of the system
- Demonstration of what information each box requires
- Where to source the required information
Demonstrations and practice
- Demonstration submitting declarations
- How to submit an export declaration
- How to submit an import declaration
- How to submit an entry summary declaration
- Practice submitting declarations: participants submit import and export declarations on the test system
Take control of your customs requirements
For more information and to book a place, contact Custran today.