Feb.`11: Long-term supplier declaration
Our catalogue contains around 10,000 items and often changes. Each time this occurs we need to review each long-term supplier’s declaration that has previously been issued to our customers; and in some cases we need to issue new versions of such declarations.
Long-term supplier’s declarations are being used as official evidence of the origin of goods from EU countries. The goods referred to in long-term supplier’s declarations are subject to economic advantages over so called third-country goods.
These advantages take the form of customs tariff preferences, which means that the import duties on such products are either reduced or are waived completely.
This in turn lowers the price for the purchaser, thus providing a competitive advantage.Any failure to comply with the so called “origin rules” that come into play here, or making a false statement on a long-term supplier’s declaration, results in the purchaser’s import duties being unduly low. Any such nonconformance will come to light during a customs audit and constitutes a violation of tax regulations on the part of the party that issued the declaration in question. Customs tariff preferences are only granted if the relevant requirements are met.
Hence, as I’m sure you can understand, with such a large number of items in our catalogue we simply cannot take or afford the risk entailed by this type of infringement of tax and customs regulations.
This means that we are unable to fulfill requests for “blanket” long-term supplier’s declarations.
However, should you require a declaration for specific consignments, kindly contact Dorothea Ebenhöh at 49 (0) 9101- 9942-22.
We need to adhere to this procedure so as to ensure that the origins of the products we sell are duly certified in accordance with European Union law.
This will protect us, and even more importantly will protect you against a possible violation of customs and/or tax regulations.
Please note the following:
In many countries the import duties on your product are already so low (or are nil) that no customs tariff preferences (which would allow you to lower your prices) are necessary.
For information concerning the import duties that your customers are required to pay, see Market Access Database (external link to official web site), which is an extremely useful tool for mapping out European Union market access strategies.
What we recommend you do is look up your product in this database and based on what you find there assess the requisite expenditures from an economic standpoint.
Feel free to contact us for further information in this regard.
Further informations...
For products having obtained preferential originating status, the supplier's declaration shall be given in the form prescribed in » Annex I (external link) or, for long-term suppliers' declarations, in that prescribed in » Annex II (external link)
