A customs duty strategy is a structured approach to managing your customs and international trade activities with a focus on reducing and optimising customs duty and import VAT liabilities. The overarching aim is to ensure efficient use of internal resources while delivering measurable cost savings to your business. This is achieved through a coordinated and strategic effort to manage and reduce customs exposure.
We deliver this through a number of routes, including tariff classification reviews, supply chain optimisation, duty planning, forward looking strategy and duty recovery. Importantly, businesses that implement a clear duty strategy not only benefit from increased savings and a reduced tax burden, but also achieve higher levels of compliance and a more efficient and resilient supply chain.
At BKR, we believe the benefits of customs special procedures should not be limited to businesses with in-house customs specialists or expensive software. Our aim is to simplify customs management by providing expert customs support to help businesses apply for, implement, and maintain customs special procedures such as customs warehousing and inward processing. This allows more businesses to access the benefits of specialist customs authorisations without taking on the full administrative burden internally.
In many cases, obtaining a customs special procedure authorisation is only the first step. Ongoing administration, record keeping, reporting, and the use of a reliable duty management system are often needed to maintain compliance and keep the procedure operating effectively. BKR supports clients through the full process, helping to simplify customs processes and reduce the pressure on internal teams.
Our duty management services cover the full end-to-end journey, whatever procedure your business requires support with. This includes the initial application to HMRC, daily maintenance, customs declaration support, monthly reporting, and ongoing account management. Through this approach, we provide practical customs compliance support that helps businesses operate efficiently, remain compliant, and maximise duty saving on imports.
Effective duty management goes beyond compliance, it’s about creating efficient, reliable processes that support your wider supply chain. At BKR, we deliver integrated solutions that reduce administrative burden, strengthen compliance, and ensure your customs procedures are efficient, scalable, and aligned with your business goals.
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Operations and Procedural Management
BKR provides a bespoke operational package, allowing your business to fully or partially outsource customs management to our experienced team. This includes outsourced customs brokerage, outsourced record keeping, and practical customs support to help ensure both operational efficiency and compliance.
We can also integrate with third-party software partners or align with your existing systems to support effective procedural management, while providing ongoing record keeping, compliance audits, access to specialist advice, and dedicated account management. This approach helps simplify customs processes, strengthen customs compliance support, and improve the day-to-day operation of customs special procedures.
IT Integration
Many businesses face challenges in maintaining compliant systems and ensuring they can effectively audit their customs activities. Our duty management services work closely with your internal systems and IT team to integrate relevant data flows into our platform.
This helps ensure that information is accurate, complete, and suitable for customs declaration support, customs reporting, and wider compliance purposes, while reducing the burden of internal administration.
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Application and Project Management
We provide full end-to-end project management, led by experienced customs advisers, taking your customs special procedures application from initial concept through to approval and implementation. This includes support with the design and drafting of standard operating procedures, software provision and integration, preparation of applications, and full engagement with HMRC.
Our service also includes on-site process mapping, go-live support, and ongoing account management to help ensure procedures are implemented correctly, maintained effectively, and continue to deliver duty saving on imports and long-term compliance benefits.
Speak With An Advisor
Let us know a little bit about how we can help and one of our customs experts will be in touch to arrange a consultation at the next mutually convenient date.
Schedule a free 30-minute consultation with one of our Advisors
Toby Spink
Director
Elizabeth Weldon
Head of Operations
Georgina Halls
Head of Advisory
Let us know a little bit about how we can help and one of our customs experts will be in touch to arrange a consultation at the next mutually convenient date.
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