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Multi-Award-Winning network of customs experts in over 25 countries reducing #customs risk —one regulation at a time.
We make complex customs issues lighter—both in explanation and in spirit.
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Merry Christmas!
Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a well-deserved, restful break!
December 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🇬🇧 Updated Guidance: Special procedure: inward processing
📚 Importing gold and jewellery section added
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#gold #jewellery
Updates - Special procedure: inward processing - Guidance - GOV.UK
List of updates to 'Special procedure: inward processing - Guidance'.
zurl.co
December 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
If you enjoy stable trade frameworks, 2026 may test that enthusiasm!
📚Updates ahead. Reading recommended.
👉 zurl.co/SvXnj

#2026 #compliance #finance #supplychain #logistics #procurement
2026 Trade & Customs Updates | Alegrant
Discover the key 2026 trade and customs updates affecting importers, exporters, and e-commerce across the EU, UK, and global markets.
zurl.co
December 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🇪🇺 EU New Commodity Code for Wind Turbines Blades
📆 1st January 2026
📚 8412 90 60
🔗 2026 EU Tariffs: zurl.co/9080e

#windturbine #greenenergy #energy #renewable
December 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
✅ 🇺🇸 Friday’s question: Does the U.S. have a Forced Labor trade law?
👮 Yes! CBP enforces 19 U.S.C. 1307 blocking goods via Withhold Release Orders (WROs). 
⛔ Flagged items? Banned from all U.S. ports.
🔗zurl.co/6IBoj

#compliance #ESG #Procurement #Sourcing
Forced Labor
Securing America's Borders
zurl.co
December 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
📚 Businesses Common Challenges in Origin Determination:
- Regulatory Knowledge Gap
- Weak Analytical Costing
- Supplier Reluctance
- Complex Supply Chains
- Documentation Gap
- Lack of Capacity
💡Origin in a nutshell: zurl.co/2SW9u

#supplychain #logistics #finance
December 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🇪🇺 EU: Proposal for a regulation addressing the negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the EU steel market 
🔗zurl.co/kiANU

#Steel #Manufacturing
December 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Preparing for a funding round?
⚠️Investors care more than you think about customs compliance, especially in cross-border supply chains.
💡 Here's a practical article + checklist to prepare
👉 zurl.co/NthOs

#Investment #Fundinground #DueDiligence #Finance
Why Customs & Trade Compliance Matters When Raising Investment
Discover why customs and trade compliance are essential when raising investment and how strong due diligence can protect value and growth.
zurl.co
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🇰🇪Kenya: New digital solution at the Busia Border Post (Kenya/Uganda) to simplify trade & speed up clearance of goods.
📚 eCUSTOMS app created by Kenya Revenue Authority with TradeMark Africa and the British High Commission
🔗zurl.co/2Ld00

#kenya #africa
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
⚠️ Why “Origin” Matters More Than Ever
🌏 Rising protectionism, retaliatory tariffs, stricter regulations, new trade agreements, origin compliance, CBAM ...
📚 New article, back to basics of Origin: zurl.co/VNgFx

#SupplyChain #Logistics #Procurement #Export
December 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🇬🇧 UK New consultation on the the removal of the £135 customs duty relief
📚Seeks views on: data to collect, how duty should apply, additional admin fee & changes to VAT
⏳This consultation closes at 11:59pm on 6 March 2026

🔗zurl.co/ev600 

#ecommerce
Reforming the customs treatment of low value imports into the United Kingdom
This consultation announces the removal of the £135 customs duty relief for low-value imports and seeks views on certain elements of a new set of customs arrangements for these goods.
zurl.co
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🇬🇧 UK New HMRC Case study: Breach of the Russia sanctions and a £1.1 million compound settlement.
📚Key compliance lessons

- Russian companies operate in third countries.
- Ignorance of sanctions is not an excuse.
🔗zurl.co/ZwuP6

#Compliance #sanctions
£1.1 million compound settlement for sanctions breach
The breach was in relation to a UK exporter that made goods available to Russia, prohibited under the Russia Sanctions Regulations
zurl.co
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🇮🇹 Italian police raid Amazon sites in probe of Chinese goods
📚 Smuggling, tax probes may spread to other EU states, sources say
👮 Need help with customs compliance in Italy 👉 info@alegrant.com
🔗Reuters: zurl.co/Qp9GC

#ecommerce #onlineshopping #dropshipping
reuters.com
zurl.co
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🇬🇧 End of Indirect Exports from Northern Ireland (NI)
⛔ CDS not available for indirect exports from NI. 
✅ CDS available for goods exiting through Ireland with changes for this route 
📆 From 15 December 2025
🔗zurl.co/u9hVw

#Brexit #Logistics #supplychain
Issue 137 of Agent Update
zurl.co
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🇪🇺/🇬🇧 Import Control System 2 (ICS2) 
📚Submitting Entry Summary (ENS) declarations will become mandatory for road movements from Great Britain into Northern Ireland and the EU.
📆 From 31 December 2025.
🔗zurl.co/Mx0tT

#Brexit #supplychain #logisitics
Make an entry summary declaration using the Import Control System 2
Check when you need to use this system to make an entry summary declaration for goods moving into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, or into Northern Ireland from countries outside the EU.
www.gov.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🇪🇺 EU launches first EU-CPTPP Trade and Investment Dialogue.
📚 Areas of cooperation: Trade Diversification, Digital Trade, Trade & Investment Facilitation, Supply Chain Resilience, Global Trade Environment.
🔗zurl.co/hKMbg

#CPTPP #Asia
EU launches Trade and Investment Dialogue with Trans-Pacific bloc
Today, in Australia, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič launched, together with his twelve counterparts, the first EU-CPTPP Trade and Investment Dialogue.
zurl.co
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🇬🇧 UK Duty Suspensions & Autonomous Tariff Quotas updated
📚 Information regarding the 2025 to 2026 duty suspension window has been added to the page.
🔗zurl.co/GGc5x
#Logistics #Supplychain #Tariff
UK Trade Tariff: duty suspensions and autonomous tariff quotas
Temporary duty suspensions and autonomous tariff quotas (ATQs) for importing goods into the UK.
zurl.co
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🌍 The Pan-Euro-Mediterranean (PEM) Rules of Origin are evolving in 2026
🔹 Higher tolerance thresholds for non-originating goods
🔹 Full origin cumulation
🔹 New certification of origin
📚Read the article👉 zurl.co/3wUKF

#SupplyChain #Sourcing #Manufacturing
Understanding the 2026 PEM Rules of Origin | Alegrant
Understand the 2026 Pan-Euro-Mediterranean (PEM) Rules of Origin. How they reduces duties, enables cumulation, and strengthens supply chains.
zurl.co
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🇪🇺 EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)
📚 Consolidated Regulation amended with October changes.
⚠️Consolidated text has no legal effect but it is very useful to use!
🔗zurl.co/ROdpX

#CBAM #Steel #energy #compliance
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🇪🇺 EU Commission Notice 
📚PEM Origin: Diagonal cumulation. Application of preferential rules of origin or the protocols on rules of origin.
🔗zurl.co/8mH8C
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🇺🇸CBP Harmonized System Update
📚 Section 232 duties on Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (MHDVs), Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Parts (MHDVPs), and buses.
🔗zurl.co/r2yyL 

#Tariff #supplychain
CSMS # 66727301 - Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2539
zurl.co
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
💡Friday's reading | Economic insight: "Old trade routes for new trade wars?" from Allianz Trade
📚Next generation trade & manufacturing hubs are redrawing the global map in 2025:
1 UAE
2 Vietnam
3 Malaysia
4 Saudi Arabia
🔗 zurl.co/zSCRJ

#globaltrade
Old trade routes for new trade wars
In a world divided by geopolitics, protectionism and the effects of climate change, global trade is forging new paths.
zurl.co
November 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🇬🇧 UK Statutory Guidance Update
📚Reference Documents for The Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade) (EU Exit) Reg 2020 ✏️Change: Korea Origin Reference Document, version 1.3
📆 Entry into force 1 January 2026
🔗zurl.co/ZTO0P

#Korea #logistics #supplychain #origin
Reference Documents for The Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade Arrangements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
Find the UK’s preferential tariffs and Rules of Origin for the agreements contained within the Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade Arrangements and Tariff Quotas) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020.
zurl.co
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🇪🇺EU Implementing Reg for goods & processed products brought to the continental shelf or the exclusive economic zone.
🔗zurl.co/NCGPn

#oil&gas #energy #greenenergy
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM