UK & EU Customs
Brokerage Processing
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Overcome Brexit-Related Challenges
Overcome Brexit-Related Challenges
For many freight and logistics companies, the impacts of Brexit are significant. Complying with new requirements — including customs declarations, rules of origin checks, product safety certification, access permits and more — will require process changes and increased staff.
The UK’s tax authority has estimated that firms will need to file 400 million extra customs declarations annually, and an estimated 145,000 businesses will now be responsible for making import-export declarations for the first time.
Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS) results published in May 2021 show that for currently trading businesses, this is a key concern — 40% of exporters and 38% of importers cite additional paperwork as their main challenge.
Our Customs Brokerage Processing Services
Declaration Data Capture
We perform the same duties as international auditors at primary gateways: importing the documents from the origin, auditing and key entering the data into declaration software in order for the shipment to be properly processed and begin on the international route to its consignee.
Tariff Classification
We alleviate the stress of dealing with customs officials by accurately identifying tariff classification and tax declarations for all shipments. We perform advanced data auditing to ensure that important fields are all correct.
Declaration Submission & Management
For total end-to-end management of the customs declaration process, including creation, submission and amendments. We also monitor progress throughout the declaration process, manage any exceptions generated and contact customs authorities when necessary.
Customer Contact
DDC’s multilingual customs agents will communicate with your customers and other stakeholders in the customs clearance process on behalf of your brand. We’ll contact customers via phone, e-mail, text and/or chat in over 30 languages.
Customs Consultancy
Take full advantage of DDC's customs expertise. Our knowledgeable and experienced team will make sure you utilise the right customs options for your business by providing up-to-date information about procedure changes, customised reporting and performance insights, and strategic plans to help reduce costs and improve efficiency.
Invoice Returns Matching
Matching the customer to the corresponding shipper is one of the most important steps while processing shipments. DDC’s agents have a firm understanding of assigning shipments to the correct importer in the system, corresponding to the data on the invoice provided.
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Eliminate Language Barriers
As commodity codes have changed and customs are more complicated post-Brexit, clear communication has never been more vital. Enhanced language proficiencies can help:
Find and fix errors prior to customs
Apply the correct tariff codes
Help avoid fees, penalties and shipping delays
With DDC FPO’s strategic multilingual capabilities, you can achieve timely customs clearance in over 30 languages. Our growing multilingual capabilities include, but are not limited to:
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Greek
- Italian
- Macedonian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- And more
Helping Companies Overcome Brexit’s Impact on Logistics
Helping Companies Overcome Brexit’s Impact on Logistics
For one of the world’s largest and highest performing global transport and logistics providers, Brexit preparations included recruiting, onboarding and training 820 new employees to assist with the increase in paperwork and new processes.
As an established client of DDC FPO, this company trusted us to create a bespoke solution. With our cost-effective and scalable approach, we achieved the expressed timeline for recruiting, training and onboarding desired key roles within 20 weeks — and continue to provide scalable support for post-Brexit operations.
