EU Customs Compliance Specialist

About this role

Shipping, Freight & Customs moves the goods: carrier relationships, bookings, documentation, customs clearance, chartering and vessel operations.

Own EU customs compliance: classification, origin, AEO obligations and the declarations behind every consignment entering the union.

This is the part of trade that happens in the physical world and refuses to be tidy. Vessels get omitted, containers get held for examination, a wrong container number on a bill of lading stops a consignment at the gate, and demurrage accrues while somebody argues. The work is judged on landed cost and on how few surprises reach the buyer.

Primary responsibilities

• Manage EU customs compliance — declarations, procedures and the authorisations behind them
• Handle the Union Customs Code requirements, including transit, warehousing and inward processing
• Classify goods under the combined nomenclature and manage the duty consequences
• Maintain the AEO status and the conditions it depends on
• Handle customs audits and the record-keeping that has to survive them

Skills required

Day to day this role works with Compliance, EU Customs, AEO and Tariff Classification.

• Four or more years in EU customs compliance
• Eligible to work in the Netherlands
• Declarations, procedures and the authorisations behind them
• Union Customs Code including transit, warehousing and inward processing
• Combined nomenclature classification and duty consequences
• AEO status maintenance
• Customs audits and the record-keeping that survives them