With less than 90 days to go, Europa Road has launched a new customs product to preserve transit times and the flow of goods between the UK and Europe after the Brexit transition period comes to an end on 31st December.
Europa has spent the last 12 months developing this simple and effective customs process designed to minimise transit time delays.
The basic premise of the product is that delays are created by the need to contact importers prior to delivery, to agree terms, and collect VAT and duty prior to delivery.
The new product Europa FLOW is designed to circumvent these issues.
It achieves this by Europa acting as an EU Global VAT representative for its customers, zero rating EU import VAT and billing duty and fees back to the UK party.
These steps, plus the use of Frontier Declarations, will mean that clearance occurs whilst the goods cross the channel. By the time they arrive on the other side, they are free to deliver.
To deliver the service Europa has created two strategically located customs brokerage businesses known as ‘Frictionless Trade Services’ in Lille, France as well as Oostende in Belgium. In addition to the UK team in Dartford, these operations will manage export and import declarations and all of the associated work required to facilitate the product.
In total a team of 45 is being employed to deliver the FLOW service to customers. Europa is currently recruiting for additional customs supervisors and declarants across all its sites as it gears up for Brexit.
Implementation of the new product with customers is being spearheaded by Dionne Redpath, Sales Director. She comments “There are lots of ways to deal with export and import from January 1st but, we’ve looked at every scenario, and we believe that this is the best way to preserve the flow of goods and achieve the same transit times we offer today.
“We believe our simple approach will give British businesses everything required for a successful start to 2021.”
Andrew Baxter, Managing Director of Europa Worldwide Group added. “The Brexit transition period is quickly coming to an end. Soon all goods travelling between the UK and the EU will need to go through a customs process.”
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