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Play it again Sam: CABIE offers solution for repetitive customs declarations

[ January 3, 2023   //   ]

Customs clearance experts the EORI Group has launched a white label version of its CABIE (Customs and Borders Import Export) simplified portal for GB imports.

The UK’s exit from the EU customs territory created the need for about 100 million new declarations a year, a substantial increase.

Working in the background CABIE manages all approvals and provides 24-hour customs support.

Founder and CEO of the EORI Group Rob Hardy said that from the outset EORI took the view that Brexit could not simply mean ‘more of the same’ and that customs clearance of a truck from Lille could not follow the same process as a 40ft container from Shanghai.

He explained: “EU trade flows are repetitive and fast-flowing, and these flows require a streamlined approach that allows goods to move as freely as possible, and without customs administration affecting schedules.”

With approval from HMRC for aggregation, EORI’s CABIE solution helps reduce the stress at the border and the subsequent paperwork afterwards, taking just over a minute to release any import consignment.

Hardy added: “If you have ten containers for the same consignee arriving on the same vessel, the agent can submit one import declaration. This is not normally practical when dealing with ro ro truck traffic and would normally require ten entries. This is not the way EORI manage things.

“It takes minutes to upload documents and release an import consignment and often costs less as well, and we are working to get away from quoting declaration charges and link the cost instead to the quantity shipped and CABIE allows us to do just that.”

EORI mostly use customs simplifications for import clearances, regardless of whether the port of arrival is GVMS (Good Vehicle Movement Service)- or inventory-linked. These simplifications allow the customs process to be detached from the goods’ movement and completed later, often after goods have been delivered. Moreover, repetitive flows can be declared on one import declaration covering ten days of movements.

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