PARIS - LYON
Customs lawyer - Paris Lyon
Maître de Bellescize assists customers with all their customs-related issues, providing advice at the customs inspection stage and in litigation.
National and Community customs law
The 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 Administration and/or between parties before the commercial courts, as well as before the Community courts.
Expertise in customs law
- Advice and litigation on species, origin and 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)
- Advice and litigation on rebate/reimbursement claims
- Assistance with inspections (litigation strategy, assistance with hearings/open hearings, assistance with the right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons, drafting of observations to the preliminary tax notice/investigation result notice)
- Assistance and support in contesting the debt (contesting collection notices, setting up guarantees, negotiating and setting up payment plans)
- Optimisation of customs import debt
- Support in quota applications and suspensions
- Judicial and administrative litigation
- Criminal defence of companies and managers
- Liability action against the 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 (customs regulation of jewellers/ watchmakers)
- Obligations to declare sums of money, securities and valuables, litigation concerning financial relations with foreign countries
- Import VAT
- International VAT - Analysis and advice on supply chain models in a tax and customs approach to international flows
- Securing the supply chain
- Origin and Made In
- Taxation of ships (registration and navigation fees, passport fees, VAT) and aircraft
- Counterfeiting (applications for action, customs detentions and seizures, legal challenges to customs procedures, criminal defence)
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