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Is the EU – Pacific States Interim Economic Partnership Agreement about to cover Nieue, Tonga and Tuvalu islands too? Compliance and business opportunites
The EU – Pacific States Interim Economic Partnership Agreement is a free trade which, currently, covers from a side the European Union from the other one Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands. The EU grants 100% duty-free and quota-free access to all imports coming from Pacific EPA countries. The access to the EU market is permanent, full and free to all products. Pacific EPA countries phase out duties partially and gradually as follows The preferential treatment under this EPA requires The compliance of the good with the principle of direct transport for which the preferential treatment applies only to products which are transported directly between a Pacific State and…
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EU GSP scheme and sustainable development
The European Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) is a framework of customs rules for which, the duties on some goods are removed if imported from vulnerable developping countries. This benefit requires that: To be eligible, the goods must comply with some additional rules: direct trasport, accounting segregation, rules of origin, statement of origin with the mention of rex (registered exporter) in the invoice or other document; It is based on the regulation 978/2012. It is interesting to add that in November 2023 the application of this GSP regulation was extended until December 2027, pending the approval of a reviewed GSP regulation by the European Parliament and the Council of the…
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AI, customs, origin, value and classification: how to implement the compliance
The artificial intelligence is a way to improve the compliance of the economic operators with the regulations on preferential origin, non-preferential origin, value and classification; shortly, it is a way to: make more robust the pillars of customs obligation on which it is based the audit for the AEO authorization; Well assess and mitigate the risks of non-compliance and, therefore, reduce or avoid: audit costs, operational disruptions, legal expenses; Implement the internal customs knowledge and expertise and the internal skills to develop internal controls (monitoring). ##preferentialorigin. The preferential origin is the status of the goods are eligible for the free trade agreement rules. The free trade agreement is is an…