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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Margins we write in while drawing a month.
These pieces stay close to declaration files: procedure codes that spreadsheets strip, origin statements that age in drawers, seams when a broker changes, and charts that should not exist.
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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Postponed import VAT and the chart that should not exist
Folding postponed import VAT into a “customs cost” pie is a common request. We refuse it, and here is the quieter chart we draw instead.
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