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EN To a certain extend customs knowledge is universal. Customs procedures are relatively efficient, both in Europe and in the rest of the western world. At least they are designed to facilitate trade as much as possible and to avoid hampering the international flow of goods.
This experience is very useful for companies acting in international trade but also for projects dealing with institutional development in other countries.
Our people are very capable to examine the local situation and to describe and implement feasible improvements.
We were involved in a project for the improvement of customs supervision at the border between Kazachstan and Kyrgizstan, the implementation of a new version of the Harmonized System both for trade and government in Suriname, the design of a port community system for an international port in Croatia and the design of procedures for a new port in Egypt.
| Netherlands | Belgium |
| Several training sessions in the field of the rules of origin in preferential trade. | Conducting a training for a software engineering company in the area of import- and exportprocedures. |
| Brasil | Serbia and Montenegro |
| With KGH Border Services in Brazil we did a study to investigate the possibilities to simplify the payment system for payments to the governmental agencies, both on import and export of goods. The result should be a single payment system for all these payments. | For the Balkan countries and Moldova with KGH Border Services we investigated the potential and the current use of bilateral and diagonal cumulation while achieving the preferential origin of goods in the trade with EU, EFTA and Turkey. |
| Sierra Leone | European Commission |
| In November 2016, in Sierra Leone, West Africa, we contributed to an Evofenedex project that focused on improving logistics. The experience during the Ebola crisis was that it took a long time for relief supplies to reach their destination. | In 2022 and 2023 edouc has contributed to a Project on the Evaluation of the impact of free zones and proposals for guidelines on their future modernization in light of the European Green Deal. This was a project of Ecorys on the instructions of the European Commission. |
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Review best practices, EU rules, regulations, and requirements regarding post-clearance modification and invalidation of customs declarations at declarant request. Resulting in a report on the following aspects:
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