Import and Customs Compliance
Our law firm has guided hundreds of companies and individuals to develop and improve their import compliance programs. The goal is to achieve reasonable care. There are many aspects to establishing an import compliance program, and no one size fits all. Among other things, we provide the following services:
Management’s Commitment
To achieve compliance with import laws, the importer’s management must commit to compliance. We help design a corporate policy to address Customs and Border Protection (CBP) matters. This may include a statement from the Board of Directors that assigns authority and responsibility to the customs group.
Assess and Manage Risk
We help our clients identify and analyze relevant risk and develop internal goals to manage the risk. This includes conducting post-entry reviews (under the protection of the attorney-client privilege) and comparing these against established goals. Only an outside legal counsel can secure the privilege, and only an experienced international trade firm can instruct you how to best take advantage of it.
Creating A Compliance Group
Our law firm can guide your company on establishing a core group of employees and managers within your company. It is important to provide sufficient authority to the compliance group and place it strategically within the company’s organizational chart to enable it to do its job and to communicate its decision to relevant departments.
Investigate Special Programs
Even seasoned companies often overlook programs and initiatives that may save substantial subs in duties and fees, including duty drawback, NAFTA, CAFTA, foreign trade zones, Generalized System of Preferences, Sections 9801 and 9801 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, the Importer Self-Assessment Program, special comprehensive licenses, and many other issues and initiatives. We explore these and other programs with our clients.
Training Programs
Our law firm is acclaimed for its training programs. Not only is our training informative and entertaining, but we can delivery it in a variety of ways, including through in-person seminars, online tutoring, and webcasts.
Record Keeping
The (a)(1)(A) List informs importers what to keep, but there is a great deal more to proper record keeping. Importers should maintain a record keeping system that forms an audit trail from production control through payment to CBP entry. Importers should be able to provide supporting documentation for CBP transactions in a timely manner. GRVR Attorneys have years of experience designing record keeping systems that work.
Emergency Response
Customs laws are complex and enforcement officials are zealous in carrying out their duties. Even the most scrupulous importers will face problems with enforcement officials. The stakes are high. Importers should have contingency plans in place and a recognized advocate to defends against the Government’s overreaching.
Managing Customs Brokers and Other Agents
Managing customs brokers is vital to most importers. CBP is judging an importer’s compliance by how well the importer manages its customs brokers, forwarders, and other agents. GRVR Attorneys has long taught importers how hire and manage customs brokers. We offer our services in negotiation the broker contract, drafting powers of attorney that are advantageous to our client (the typical POA is anything but), and creating compliance systems for managing customs brokers.
Our law firm has guided hundreds of companies and individuals to develop and improve their import compliance programs. The goal is to achieve reasonable care. There are many aspects to establishing an import compliance program, and no one size fits all. Among other things, we provide the following services:
Management’s Commitment
To achieve compliance with import laws, the importer’s management must commit to compliance. We help design a corporate policy to address Customs and Border Protection (CBP) matters. This may include a statement from the Board of Directors that assigns authority and responsibility to the customs group.
Assess and Manage Risk
We help our clients identify and analyze relevant risk and develop internal goals to manage the risk. This includes conducting post-entry reviews (under the protection of the attorney-client privilege) and comparing these against established goals. Only an outside legal counsel can secure the privilege, and only an experienced international trade firm can instruct you how to best take advantage of it.
Creating A Compliance Group
Our law firm can guide your company on establishing a core group of employees and managers within your company. It is important to provide sufficient authority to the compliance group and place it strategically within the company’s organizational chart to enable it to do its job and to communicate its decision to relevant departments.
Investigate Special Programs
Even seasoned companies often overlook programs and initiatives that may save substantial subs in duties and fees, including duty drawback, NAFTA, CAFTA, foreign trade zones, Generalized System of Preferences, Sections 9801 and 9801 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, the Importer Self-Assessment Program, special comprehensive licenses, and many other issues and initiatives. We explore these and other programs with our clients.
Training Programs
Our law firm is acclaimed for its training programs. Not only is our training informative and entertaining, but we can delivery it in a variety of ways, including through in-person seminars, online tutoring, and webcasts.
Record Keeping
The (a)(1)(A) List informs importers what to keep, but there is a great deal more to proper record keeping. Importers should maintain a record keeping system that forms an audit trail from production control through payment to CBP entry. Importers should be able to provide supporting documentation for CBP transactions in a timely manner. GRVR Attorneys have years of experience designing record keeping systems that work.
Emergency Response
Customs laws are complex and enforcement officials are zealous in carrying out their duties. Even the most scrupulous importers will face problems with enforcement officials. The stakes are high. Importers should have contingency plans in place and a recognized advocate to defends against the Government’s overreaching.
Managing Customs Brokers and Other Agents
Managing customs brokers is vital to most importers. CBP is judging an importer’s compliance by how well the importer manages its customs brokers, forwarders, and other agents. GRVR Attorneys has long taught importers how hire and manage customs brokers. We offer our services in negotiation the broker contract, drafting powers of attorney that are advantageous to our client (the typical POA is anything but), and creating compliance systems for managing customs brokers.