Import record review
A time-boxed reading of a defined set of import entries: procedure codes, supporting documents, and the trail from invoice to declaration.
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The declaration year, on paper a board can pass around.
We take CDS extracts, freight-agent files, and the commercial papers in your drawer and turn a named period into charts of duty, postponed import VAT, commodity mix, and origin claims — with the awkward lines left visible.
Who sits with the pack
Importers, exporters, and the people who inherit a broker’s spreadsheet.
If you lodge regularly through a freight agent, the figures that matter to a finance lead — duty actually charged, preference claimed, procedure codes that are not free circulation — rarely appear in the management accounts in a form that matches the entries. We work for traders who still have to answer an auditor, a customer, or a new agent, and who would rather do that from a dated pack than from a screen share.
We are based at 98 Withers Close, Allerton. The work is reading and drawing what you already hold. We do not lodge live declarations.
Flagship work
The customs reporting pack is a monthly or quarterly document for one legal entity: charts, tables, a covering note, and a short review call. First packs take about three weeks once the extract is usable.
Other papers we prepare
Each piece of work starts from a named period and a named EORI. None of them is a standing login.
Origin and preference mapping
A visual account of where preferential origin was claimed, against which scheme, and where the invoice trail is thin.
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Broker handover pack
A set of charts and tables a new freight agent can read in a week: lanes, commodity mix, usual procedure codes, and the contacts who actually answer the phone.
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Duty and import VAT briefing
A sit-down (or video) briefing that walks a finance or board audience through a quarter of duty, postponed import VAT, and the few lines that distorted the totals.
Read the briefThey kept the warehousing lines out of the duty chart after we pointed at two CPC families. The first draft had mixed them; the covering note then said so, which was more useful than a perfect first version.
Field notes
Short pieces on extracts, preference paper, broker seams, and why some charts should not be drawn.
Reading a CDS extract without losing the procedure code
Spreadsheet exports flatten customs procedure codes into cells that look like ordinary numbers. Here is how we keep the code attached to the duty figure when we draw a month.
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When preference claims outpace the paper in the drawer
Origin statements age in filing cabinets while declarations keep claiming the scheme. A Liverpool importer’s quarter showed us how that drift looks on a page.
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What a broker change does to last year’s charts
Two agents, two export formats, one financial year. Comparability is a drafting choice, not a feature of customs files.
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