Conference Day Two: Wednesday 9th November 2011
8:30 Coffee and Registration
8:45 Opening Remarks by the Co-Chairs
9:00 Maintaining and Updating Your Internal Customs
Compliance Programme: Achieving Compliance
Throughout Your Entire Organisation
Delphine Neveux, International Trade & Customs
Compliance Manager Europe, Momentive
Albert Bernard, Manager of Customs Compliance
Panasonic Aviation
Phil Shaw, Director International Trade Compliance EMEA
Emerson Electric Co.
- Benchmarking customs compliance programmes across companies:
key attributes of an effective customs compliance programme
- tools that companies are using to facilitate customs
compliance programmes
- Maintaining customs compliance throughout the organisation:
how to ensure that your entire organisation understands the
importance of remaining in compliance
- how to get the Board on board: demonstrating the
importance of internal customs compliance
- providing internal training on how to follow the rules of
origin, selecting the correct tariff codes and supplying the
correct documents to the customs department
- Record retention: what is the minimum level of records that
a company needs to keep
- which information is considered records and which is not?
- how detailed do your records need to be?
- how long do records need to be kept to meet compliance
standards?
- Strategies for obtaining the necessary records throughout
the organisation
- Scoring programmes: different approaches that companies
are using
- customs vs. logistics scoring
- Interacting with the customs authorities: what tools are
available to assist in communication between your organisation
and the customs authorities for making customs declarations
- How often should companies perform internal audits on their
customs compliance programme?
- Adapting your customs compliance programme: ensuring that
your compliance programme grows with the organisation
10:00 Training Your Internal Customs Managers and
Other Functions such as Purchasing, Pricing to Support Your Customs Compliance Efforts
Phil Challen, Customs Leader, Europe, GE International (UK)
- Recognising the importance and need of a strong customs
team regularly trained to ensure that the company’s customs
strategies are properly implemented
- What resources Customs authorities expect companies to devote
to training, and how they evaluate internal training programmes
- Assessing your customs training needs
- what level of knowledge is expected from a customs
professional at all levels, basic, intermediate and advanced?
- Conducting a cost/benefit analysis: effective training without
cutting corners
- Who should conduct training, and how to train the trainer?
- Pros and cons of online vs. in-person training tools
- Teaching employees how to identify potential violations
and errors
- Training in foreign languages for multinational companies:
key challenges and pitfalls
- Special considerations for engineering, sales, management
and other compliance personnel
- Frequency and scope of “refresher” training: identifying areas
of weakness for further training
10:45 Morning Refreshments
11:15 Strategic Use of Duty Optimisation Methods: What
you Need to Know to Achieve the Greatest Savings
Ross Denton, Partner, Baker & McKenzie (UK)
- How to make the most of duty optimization: which methods
are resulting in the most savings for companies?
- Free Trade Agreements (FTA): how can your company benefit?
- what is the impact of the new FTA between the EU and Korea
- how do the EU/Korea FTA benefits compare to the
benefits of the EU/Switzerland FTA
- Identifying common pitfalls to avoid when taking advantage
of an FTA
- Inward Processing Relief (IPR) and Outward Processing
Relief (OPR): how are companies using these processes to
find duty relief?
- What to do if you cannot ship your products within the
6 month time-frame of the IPR
- applying for an IPR extension: what are the parameters?
- obtaining your own IPR number: how to qualify?
- what are the benefits of having your own IPR number?
- Best practices to follow when determining the origin of a product
- how to set up internal procedures to handle origin queries
- which documentation needs to be filled out and what
information needs to be included on the documentation?
- Pros and cons of using Generalised Systems Preferences (GSP)
- Providing the proof required to get your duty savings:
what you need to include and how to obtain it
- Which restrictions apply when claiming duty savings?
- GSP reform: what companies can expect to see under
the upcoming reform
- factors that the EU Commission will consider when
removing countries from the GSP list
- when does the EU expect countries to be removed from
the GSP list
- What is the anticipated impact on companies following the
removal of up to over 50% of the countries on the GSP list?
12:00 Keynote Speech: Modernized Customs Code (MCC)
Francisco Pérez-Cañado, Deputy Head of Unit,
Directorate-General for Trade, Unit D1
European Commission (Belgium)
- When is Modernised Customs Code scheduled to go live?
- Will the MCC be split into two separate sections?
- delegated act vs. the implementing act
- What will be the decision on the fi rst sale rule
12:30 Networking Lunch
2:00 Optimising Your Customs Valuation: Choosing the
Best Valuation Procedures for your Organisation
Paulette Vander Schueren, Partner, Mayer Brown (Belgium)
- Six methods of customs valuations: how are companies using
these different methods in practice?
- Evaluating your own valuation needs: determining which
valuation methods to use within your organisation
- Sending items for repair: how to value these items
- Transfer pricing: how to demonstrate compliance
- How is customs currently handling assists and additions?
- What allowances can you make in transfer pricing in order
to reduce your customs duty?
- Getting a seat at the table: engaging with your direct
tax colleagues
- Strategies for multinational companies to use when aligning transfer pricing and customs values
- What strategies can be adopted to defend a challenge
by Customs
- How can challenges be defended with technical arguments?
2:45 Managing the Importer/Broker Relationship in
Order to Minimise Risks to Your Organisation
Petra Mogyorosi, Trade Compliance Specialist
Mitsui & Co., Ltd.(UK)
Des Hiscock, International Trade Compliance Manager
B & Q (UK)
Steve Parker, Head – Customs & Brokerage Europe
DHL Global Forwarding
- Best practices for broker management: knowing what you can
reasonably expect from a broker before entering into
an agreement
- what are the traditional roles and responsibilities of a broker?
- how does the role of a broker differ regionally?
- What information should you be providing to your freight
forwarder?
- how does this vary depending on the terms in your contract?
- How to build sufficient contractual protection and other
safeguards into your broker agreement
- Determining which liabilities will remain with your
organisation and which will transfer to the broker:
what impact will this have on your organisation?
- Avoiding common pitfalls: strategies for protecting your
organisation from broker negligence:
- checking over the work of your broker: why you should
do it and what you should be looking out for
- What repercussions can an organisation face when a broker
has failed to follow the instructions that they were provided?
How a multinational organisation manages customs
compliance throughout its various locations
3:45 Afternoon Refreshments
4:00 Working with Incoterms®: Ensuring
Your Agreement Covers all the Necessary
Elements in Order to Avoid Issues in the Future
Emily O’Conor, Senior Policy Manager, International
Chambers of Commerce (France)
Mark Corby, Director of Trade Compliance, EMEA
Invensys (UK)
Carl Pinney, EMEA Customs Manager, Cisco (UK)
This interactive case study consists of real world situations involving
the use of Incoterms®. Engage in in-depth discussions with speakers
as they analyze fact scenario and pose questions to the audience.
Discussion points and scenarios will include:
- Understanding the new Incoterms®: what’s new in the
Incoterms® 2010?
- Practical application of Incoterms®: what companies need
to consider when entering into a contract
- Ensuring that your contract includes all the terms that you
require: which terms are not included in the Incoterms®?
- transfer of title
- Successfully completing a turnkey contract: what elements
need to be considered when negotiating contract terms
- How to avoid unexpected duty charges following the completion
of a turnkey contract: the importance of the DDP clause
- consequences of errors in turnkey contracts
5:00 Conference Ends
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