Our Expertise in Your Business “If you think compliance is expensive, try non-compliance”. "The World of International Trade and Logistics is becoming ever more complicated, ever more controlled by red-tape and even more dominated by Customs Compliance". The responsibilities of being “Customs Compliant” are being pushed more and more in the direction of the Exporter & Importer. This can be a real headache to a business that has inappropriate skill and resource in international freight forwarding and international customs matters. MIES International Limited is an AEO and has been approved since November 2009. We are effectively a “Customs Trusted Trader” and have nearly ten years of AEO exper
Importing from developing countries under the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences If you are regularly importing from a GSP country into the UK, you need to be aware of the following announcement from UK Government. If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the EU’s Generalised System of Preference (GSP) for developing countries will no longer apply to the UK. The UK government will implement its own independent GSP scheme for day one of a ‘no deal’ scenario, with its own administration arrangements, but will aim to retain much of the same existing administration arrangements as the EU. To ease the transition, the UK will retain the same qualifying operations as the EU’s rules of origin and
Brexit update from UK Export Control Organisation If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, dual-use items from the UK to the EU will need a licence. An Open General Export Licence (OGEL) has been created for this purpose. On 1 March, the Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) will host a webinar to explain the issues around EU General Export Authorisations (EU GEAs) and the new OGEL. The webinar will: raise awareness of the terms of the OGEL provide information on the policy landscape of EU-related legislation in a no-deal Brexit include a Q&A session directly with policy makers
