Services

Specialized Customs Consultations

Shall perform their tasks mainly through relying on the vision and mission of Terminal Customs Consulting, and to work on opening the cooperation fields and participation in providing and facilitating all the efforts up to quality customs consultations and services of high quality. The specialized customs services include the following:

• Customs consultations for different customs conditions.
• The consultations related to the free zones of all types, as well as the public and private customs warehouses.
• The procedures of the Post Clearance Audit (PCA) in the local market and thoses related to the free zones and duty free shops.
• The consultations pertaining to the customs value and what is related to the value based on the concept of Article Seven of the World Trade Organization (GATT 1994).
• Organizing the procedures of lodging and exiting of goods from the private and public customs warehouses.
• Organizing and coordinating the import and export procedures for the companies operating in the free zones or local companies.
• The controls of applying the international conventions, the principles and conditions of benefiting from these conventions.
• The industrial exemptions, and the terms and conditions of these exemptions.
• The intellectual property rights and their procedural aspects in the customs work.
• Customs classification and tariff principles.
• The import procedures with re-export intent, the customs set-off within the framework of transporting the goods and vehicles between the countries of Cooperation Council for Gulf Arab States.
• Consultations of applying for customs facilities pertaining to the different customs procedures.
• Application for temporary entry of imported goods.
• The consultations of joining the initiative of air cargo between airports.
• The fragments shipments and consolidated customs declarations.
• The consultations of refunding the customs duties and guarantees.
• Mechanisms and methods of releasing the goods in the event of disagreement thereon and within the customs conditions and controls.
• Verification of the completed customs declarations for the purposes of ensuring the extent of compliance with the Common Customs Law of the Gulf Cooperation Council States, the relevant customs laws, policies, decisions and declarations.
• The customs consultations related to the customs equations of the manufacturing conditions pending the customs duties.
• The services of storing goods in public warehouses with our certified partners and within legal agreements.
• The consultation services pertaining to the International Transport Convention (ATA Carnet).
• The consultation for the Value Added Taxes implementation in UAE (VAT).
• The procedures of participating in the Authorized Economic Operator (AEO).
• Intellectual property rights for companies and brands.

Customs Cases & Issues

Terminal Customs Consulting shall provide the consulting services relating to the customs issues imposed on the companies based on the expertise and knowledge of the fundamentals of adapting violations or smuggling cases, which include the following:

• Customs violations and their penalties.
• Customs smuggling issues.
• Procedures of grievance against the fining decisions issued by the Customs Department.
• Concluding conciliatory settlement in the customs smuggling cases.
• Consultations pertaining to the committee adjudicating the customs value, origin and customs tariff.
• The customs issues relating to claims for recovery of customs duties.

Customs Clearance Services

For the purpose of simplifying and facilitating the services to the clients of Terminal Customs Consulting in the field of customs clearance and organizing customs data for the different customs conditions; we have strategic partnerships and memorandums of understanding with a number of approved clearance companies.

In order to provide comprehensive consulting and customs services in the following manners:

• The services of:
  • Organizing customs data and clearance for all customs conditions.
  • Organizing the bills transfer process within the free zones.
  • Obtaining the facilities of permits to enter / exit from the free zones.
  • Organizing aggregated customs declarations for fragmented shipments.
  • Providing customs declarations pertaining to the temporary entry and the customs guarantees imposed on the customs declarations.
• The procedures of following up the refund of the guarantees for the import declarations with the import of the re-export.

Knowledge Development in Customs Valuation

Terminal Customs Consulting is proud to announce its venture development plan in Customs Valuation.

The plan has been developed with the view of offering a structured knowledge in customs valuation and its concepts.

Our plan will cover the WTO Rules of Valuation, handling different topics under differing scenarios, where the knowledge will be gained would enable the understanding of the customs value analysis, implications, benefits and issues.

Objectives:

• The six methods of determining Customs Value.
• The legal basis for establishing the customs value of goods.
• The primary and alternative methods of valuation and when to apply them.
• The mandatory and optional adjustments to the transaction value.
• The correct way to calculate customs value based on the common customs law of GCC states and article (7) of GATT 1994.
• The knowledge of the International Commercial Terms (INCOTERMS 2010).
• The procedures of post clearance audit in Dubai customs.
• The WTO valuation agreement.
• Applying the transaction method and adjustments under article (8) of WTO.
• The concept about the supporting documents related to the transaction value.
• Customs requirements and Customs needs.