Make customs a source of control and value
Customs decisions affect much more than the moment goods reach the border. Tariff classification, origin, customs valuation and the choice of customs procedure can affect duty costs, supply-chain design, pricing, contracts and delivery times.
At the same time, customs authorities increasingly expect businesses to demonstrate that declarations are based on reliable data, documented decisions and effective internal controls.
Our customs specialists help organisations identify risk, optimise legitimate opportunities and turn customs requirements into processes that work in practice.
How can we help you?
Origin and supplier evidence
Origin can determine tariff treatment, duty savings and the application of trade measures. We help businesses assess both preferential and non-preferential origin and establish the evidence needed to support origin claims.
Our support covers preferential and non-preferential origin analysis, supplier evidence and declarations, free-trade agreement eligibility, origin procedures and controls, and the review of supporting documentation.
Our aim is to establish a robust origin process that helps businesses benefit from available trade preferences while reducing the risk of unsupported claims.
Customs valuation
Customs value forms the basis for calculating many import duties and can become particularly complex for international groups dealing with transfer pricing, royalties, assists, related-party transactions or retrospective price adjustments.
We help organisations assess their valuation positions and align customs methodology with the broader commercial and tax environment, covering areas such as valuation reviews, customs and transfer-pricing alignment, royalties and licence fees, assists, retrospective adjustments, governance and supporting documentation.
Special customs procedures and authorisations
The right customs procedures and authorisations can improve cash flow, reduce unnecessary duty costs and make supply chains more efficient.
We help businesses identify and implement the right approach, from inward and outward processing and customs warehousing to guarantees, AEO, importer-of-record arrangements and broader customs operating models.
By starting from the actual movement of goods, we ensure that customs procedures support business needs while maintaining appropriate controls.
Customs audits, reviews and remediation
Customs risks often become visible only after declarations have been submitted.
We help businesses identify, assess and correct issues before or during interactions with customs authorities, covering customs health checks, post-clearance and declaration-quality reviews, audit and dispute support, voluntary disclosures, remediation programmes and customs broker oversight. Where issues span multiple countries or entities, we can also help establish a consistent methodology and remediation roadmap.
Build stronger customs operations
The quality of a customs declaration ultimately depends on the data and decisions behind it.
Product information, tariff codes, origin, customs values, Incoterms, importer responsibilities and broker instructions often come from different systems and business functions. We help organisations connect these elements through clear policies and procedures, responsibility matrices, control frameworks, broker governance, ERP requirements, customs-data analytics, dashboards, exception reporting, training and testing.
The result is a customs model designed around the organisation’s actual trade flows rather than individual declarations.
Add specialist capacity without building everything in-house
Customs activities often combine recurring operational work with questions requiring specialist expertise. We complement internal customs and tax teams with support across classification, origin, valuation and declaration quality, while providing ongoing monitoring, broker oversight, data analytics, exception management and reporting.
Customs in a wider trade compliance environment
A customs decision does not stand alone.
A correctly classified product may still require an export licence. Evidence supporting preferential origin may not meet the traceability requirements of a sustainability regulation. And one product code may determine both customs treatment and the scope of another border obligation.
Our Customs, Sanctions and Trade approach makes those connections explicit.