Customs.

International trade and transport today are inextricably linked to customs, VAT and excise duties, as well as to all the complications that these duties entail, including European regulations.

Quadrant has a team of solicitors with in-depth knowledge of this matter, and the firm has assisted countless companies in all kinds of discussions with the customs authorities and/or the BBI.

This includes the following issues:

• Storage in customs or excise bonded warehouse

• Withdrawal from customs supervision

• Blocking counterfeit goods

• Customs value disputes

• Anti-dumping

• Transport under excise duty suspension

• Re-exportation, destruction and abandonment of goods

• VAT disputes

• Agricultural levies and refunds

• Origin of goods

• Preferential rates

• Classification

Tax proceedings.

Quadrant assists importers and customs brokers in filing informal objections and administrative appeals against customs decisions that are unfavourable for them or their clients, up to and including providing legal assistance before the tax courts and the highest courts of Belgium.

Criminal proceedings.

The customs administration will often treat a possible violation of customs law as a potential criminal offence, causing companies to be subpoenaed to appear in criminal courts. Quadrant defends countless companies in such delicate and complex proceedings.

Commercial proceedings.

An additional levy or anti-dumping duty regularly leads to disputes between logistic partners. Over the years, Quadrant has built up a strong reputation in securing and recovering customs debts and other levies elsewhere in the logistics chain.