Customs lawyers in Paris and Lyon
ADVENIAT Avocats assists its customers with all their customs issues, providing advice at the customs inspection stage and in litigation.
- Customs control and litigation advice: species, origin, value
- Risk/compliance/optimisation audits (process implementation and validation, risk analysis and management, customs and logistics optimisation schemes)
- Relations between shippers and customs representatives (drafting of contracts, management of appeals between parties)
- Customs valuation and transfer pricing
- Assistance with customs inspections (litigation strategy, assistance with hearings/open hearings, assistance with goods inspection rights, drafting of observations for advance tax notices/investigation result notices).
- Assistance and support in contesting the debt (contesting collection notices, setting up guarantees, negotiating and setting up payment plans)
- Criminal defence of companies and managers
- Liability action against the Customs Administration
- Special customs procedures (inward and outward processing, end-use, warehouses, transit, temporary admission)
- Export control: regulation of controlled goods (military, dual use, chemicals, embargoes, sanctions policy etc.)
- Taxation and regulation of precious metals
- Obligations to declare sums of money, securities and valuables, litigation concerning financial relations with foreign countries
- Appeals against temporary cash withholding decisions
- Analysis and advice on supply chain models from a tax and customs perspective for international flows
- Securing the supply chain
- Taxation of ships (registration and navigation fees, passport fees, VAT) and aircraft
National and Community customs law
Your customs law firm assists and defends corporate clients in national and European customs and related litigation.
In its advisory capacity, the firm works on complex, high-stakes issues, with a view to securing, ensuring compliance with andoptimising the customs practices of companies and the challenges associated with international trade.
For certain cases, the firm works jointly with partner firms specialising in European Union law, WTO law and regulatory law, or combines the expertise of former customs managers in companies, in order to offer its clients a dual legal and operational competence.
The firm assists its clients in pre-litigation and litigation before the national judicial and administrative courts, against the customs authorities and/or between parties before the commercial courts, as well as before the Community courts.