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Customs value

Are you doing cross-border trade with a non-EU country, or are you planning to do cross-border trade with a non-EU country in that case...

Can you deviate from an Incoterm afterwards? Freight forwarder obligations

In this blog, I will discuss a judgment of the Rotterdam District Court. An important judgment for commercial (trading) companies and...

Customs recovery period

When goods are imported into the Netherlands from outside the European Union, the importer has to pay import duties. This is done by...

ECJ: when is a product a 'container' in customs law sense?

Recently, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a judgment relevant to the question of when there is a 'container' for the...

The ICC Incoterms 2020

As of January 2020, the latest Incoterms have been implemented. The Incoterms 2020 differ from the previous version dated 2010. This blog...

Export of dual-use items

When exporting items from the European Customs Union to countries outside the Customs Union (so-called 'third countries'), there is a lot...

The new Product Liability Directive

The current Product Liability Directive dates back to 1985, and after 38 years the directive can be called old. We have written a blog...

Importers beware! EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) (2023)

Although there is only preliminary agreement on the "Regulation establishing a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism," the Carbon Border...

Cargo damage in (international) road transport: is the carrier liable?

In a previous blog post, I addressed the difference between the terms 'carrier', 'paper carrier' and 'freight forwarder', and why this is...

Battle of forms: how do you know which general terms and conditions apply?

A common question in business-to-business (B2B) is which general terms and conditions apply. An important legal question. Often, both the...