Customs4trade

It's that Multimodal time of year, again. Will we see you there? If you are planning on attending, stop by our stand and chat with the team about how C4T can help strengthen your customs compliance..there is a lot to show and tell 👇

🔹Special Procedures
🔹Excise
🔹AI Classification
🔹Import and Export
🔹The new countries we are and will be connecting to in the future
🔹All the improvements to CAS

And more....

Entrance tickets are free. You can be our guest and register here: https://hubs.li/Q04hCjFt0

Visit us on stand 4025. We look forward to seeing you there.

You can be “modern” on paper and still feel manual every day.
If that sounds familiar, this quiz is for you.

We built a short Modernising Customs Operations quiz so you can see where you really stand across five key areas.

What you will do:
5️⃣ Answer five quick questions about how you work today
🔍 Look at your customs setup through five lenses
– People
– Process
– Data
– Technology
– Governance and compliance

See if you are mostly manual, partly modern, or close to automated and insight-led.

Good if you:
👍 Spend too much time firefighting and rely on spreadsheets and emails to hold everything together
👍 Feel pressure to “modernise” but struggle to explain where to start
👍 Want a neutral way to benchmark your operation with your team

⏲️ It takes less than 1 minute

Take the quiz and see where your customs operation stands today.

Link to the quiz is here: https://hubs.li/Q03-lm2D0

Most customs teams are not failing to modernise. They are stuck.

Our poll results make that clear. They tell a clear story. The challenges were:

• 43% are held back by legacy systems and weak IT integration.
• 39% struggle with poor or inconsistent data.
• 38% still depend heavily on brokers and external partners.
• 30% lack the time or resources to move faster.
• Only 26% have real visibility and performance reporting.
• Just 16% struggle with management buy-in.
*attendees could select more than one option

This is not a motivation problem.
It is an operating model problem.

Customs teams want to modernise, but they are held back by disconnected systems, fragmented data, and manual processes.

In our on-demand webinar, we break this down across people, process, data, technology, and governance/compliance.

You will also hear practical insights from Danone on how they approach automation, control, and efficiency in customs.

Watch now! https://hubs.li/Q03YJbk70

Modernising customs operations...let's discuss. One hour to go! There is still time to register: https://hubs.li/Q03XB1WC0

Can you explain, in one or two sentences, where your customs operation really stands today?

If that feels hard, this session is for you.

On Wednesday, 10 December, we will walk through how customs work is changing across five areas:
• People
• Process
• Data
• Technology
• Governance and compliance

You will:
• Answer a short set of questions about your current setup
• See where you land on our customs modernisation matrix
• Get a one-pager after the webinar with your score and ideas you can explore with your team

You will also hear from Jens Vandaele, Danone's EU Customs and Trade Compliance Manager, who will share what Danone is doing in practice to modernise and automate its customs operations.

Whether you are just starting to digitalise or already exploring automation, this session will give you a clearer view of how customs operations are evolving, and where you might focus next.

Link to register is in the comments.

You might be paying duties you never needed to pay. Our recent Customs Warehousing webinar made that clear.

Half of the companies that joined told us their top goal is simple.
Cut duty and customs costs.
The pressure on cash flow is real, and teams are looking for fast wins they can control.

Then the poll results came in.
43 percent already use Customs Warehousing.
36 percent do not.
20 percent are considering it.
The numbers look close, but the financial impact is not.

Customs Warehousing lets you store goods with duty and VAT suspended.
You pay only when you release goods into free circulation.
If you re-export the goods, you often pay nothing.

The impact speaks for itself:

• Lower duty bills when volumes rise.
• Better cash flow for high value or slow moving goods.
• Duty relief on re-exports.
• Stronger audit control over stock.
• Less pressure on customs and finance teams.

Our new blog covers the following:

• How the procedure works in practice.
• Public vs private warehouses.
• Which goods benefit.
• What customs expects from your audit trail.
• How automation removes manual work.

If you hold stock, this is worth reading.
The numbers change quickly once you run the procedure well.

Read the blog by clicking here: https://hubs.li/Q03WB-VX0

Customs modernisation is no longer optional.
New regulations, digitalisation, and speed expectations are changing how customs teams work. If customs stays manual and reactive, it quickly becomes a risk, not an asset. 👇

On Wednesday, 10 December, we’re hosting a webinar to look at what modernisation really means in practice and help you see where your own operation stands today.

We will explore five key dimensions:
People, Process, Data, Technology, Governance/Compliance, and we will help you benchmark where your current operation sits across these five areas.

After the webinar, we will share a one-pager you can use to capture your score and possible next steps for your organisation.

You will also hear from Jens Vandaele, Danone’s EU Customs and Trade Compliance Manager, who will talk about the steps Danone has taken to modernise its customs operations.

Whether you are just starting to structure your customs processes or already working on it, this session will give you a clearer view of how customs work is changing and where you may want to focus next.

Register now! https://hubs.li/Q03W5JLr0

Counting down to The Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade next week!

Come visit us at stand #11 to talk all things customs automation with the C4T team, Ludovic Demeyere and Will Greenwood will be there.

Ludo will also be taking part in an open discussion on “Reforming Customs: Digitalisation and the Move Towards Trusted Trade.” Sponsored by Netcompany: EU customs reform is on the horizon. Learn how to stay ahead of this and digital initiatives, such as the Customs Hub. Plus get the latest on HMRC’s digital transformation programme - including what it means for your customs processes.

We hope to see you there! 🙌

What a great start to the Nielson Smith Customs Compliance Europe event in Düsseldorf yesterday! A huge thanks to Siobhan Kingsbury from Pernod Ricard for an inspiring presentation on the road to digital transformation in customs, and to Raf Schroons for adding his expert perspective from the software provider side.