Customs Compliance II: Intermediate

*Prerequisite: Customs compliance I: Overview

Customs compliance begins with a good understanding of the role of customs. “Customs Compliance II: Intermediate” will walk you through the necessary steps for developing a compliance plan for your company so as to avoid possible financial penalties or any other logistical headaches.

Overall objective

Control the legal and financial risks by ensuring a proactive rather than reactive customs management.

Specific objectives

• Understand business transactions (mapping):

• • Customs declarations
  • Commercial invoices

• Manage products and HS codes and maintain them
• Ensure consistency between mapping and reality
• Ensure management of CUSMA certificates (classification, origin, eligibility)
• Understand the customs declaration
• Establish an approval process for customs declarations
• Develop in-house expertise for customs files
• Establish a documented and permanent practice

Moreover, the intermediate level will help you:

• Approve customs declarations
  • Implementation of an approval process for customs declarations
  • Review of methodologies for approval and job aid

• Evaluate the customs broker’s work
  • Development of a performance review and monitoring method

• Write a Compliance Manual
  • Implementation of a documented procedure and recording of information
  • List of elements that must be documented and the reasons for doing so
  • Periodic updates

The training session lasts four hours.

Note: customized training or coaching is also available upon request.

For more information call : 1.514.368.2637 x112