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Spanish customs provide details on the implementation of exit summary declarations

Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:15

Simplify and authomatize the administrative flow of the export process can improve the efficience of controls, speeding up at the same time the movement of goods. In this perspective must be conceived the Exit Summary Declaration (EXS), introduced by the Regulation (EC) N° 648/2005 of the European Parliament and Council (along with the Entry Summary Declaration) and regulated by art. 842 a of Regulation (EEC) N° 2454/93 of the Commission of 2 July 1993 (IP-CCC, i.e. “Implementing Provisions to the Community Customs Code").

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SISTRI to be operational from 1th October

Wednesday, 22 September 2010 07:58

SISTRI, the new IT system for the control of the traceability of waste born on 2009 on an initiatve of the Italian Ministry for the Environment and the Protection of Land and Sea, has been developed to simplify procedures and fulfilments related to the disposal of wast, so to manage them in an innovative and transparent way, reducing at the same time costs and burdens for businesses.

Spain: more financial autonomy for the Port Authorities

Tuesday, 10 August 2010 08:37

While Italy continues to discuss on how to grant greater financial authonomy to the Port Authorities, the Spanish government publishes in the Boletin Oficial del Estado (Official Journal) the new “Ley de Puertos” on the economic regime and services rendered in the Ports of general interest.

(Continues ... in Italian)

Conference on International Trade, Education and Marketing

Sunday, 01 August 2010 00:00

CITEM - On December, in Ceske Budejovice (Czech Republic), the first Conference on International Trade, Education and Marketing. Studio Desiderio is among the supporters of the event.

USA: a step back on the "first sale rule"

Friday, 30 July 2010 14:29

In a recent letter addressed to the US transportation and importing community, the Commissioner of US Customs Alan Bersin announced that his administration is working on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that will be published in the next days on the Federal Register, that will formally withdraw the 2008 CBP proposal to abolish the first sale rule (read our article). Indeed, such mechanism has proved to be highly beneficial for US importers, allowing them to obtain substancial duty savings.

Accordingly, the first sale rule will definitively remain in place in the US.

We are now awaiting to see what will be the future of this rule in the European Union. At the moment, the last consolidated draft of the Implementing Provisions to the new Modernized Community Customs Code (not yet adopted), proposes its abilition, but the EU Commission has accepted to rediscuss this topic early this Fall, analizing it and evaluating its impact on the EU trading community with more attention.