Reporting cycle
This is the rhythm of the flagship customs reporting pack. Record reviews and briefings skip some of the later months; they still start with a named period and a file we can trust.
You send legal name, EORI, the trade lanes that matter this year, and a sample month (CDS extract, forwarder sheet, or broker export). We say if the columns are enough, and which questions the month cannot answer — origin without statements, VAT without a figure, warehousing mixed with release.
We freeze procedure codes as text, mark the duty column, and note whether postponed import VAT is even present. This map is written down. It is what stops February’s chart from quietly changing shape in May.
Charts of commodity groups, duty, dispatch countries, and preference flags as lodged. An exception list with declaration references from your file. Totals that refuse to fold VAT into duty.
Forty-five minutes on the first pack, shorter later if you wish. You mark lines that need a footnote or a question for the broker. We do not “fix” an entry in HMRC from this call.
A dated PDF, tables, and a one-page covering note. Later months: ten working days after close, if the extract arrives within five working days of that close. Miss the window and the pack moves, not the standards.
Keep sending the same export. If the broker changes, tell us the first month of the new agent so we can print a seam rather than blend two formats. If you start claiming a new origin scheme, send the first statements with that month’s file.
Ready to begin a cycle? Read the flagship brief or send a sample month.