Customs logistics and maritime
Main Businesses
In today's era, how to ensure the smooth operation of the supply chain in international trade has become one of the major challenges faced by many multinational companies. Both maritime merchants and customs logistics businesses pose potential risks to international trade participants due to their unique professionalism.
A&Z has a customs logistics/maritime business team with a profound legal foundation and practical experience, and has already hired several experts and scholars with outstanding achievements in this field as long-term and stable senior consultants of the team, so as to provide clients with legal advice and solutions related to customs logistics/maritime affairs.
Services
Legal services for customs logistics
- Customs classification consulting (introducing the principles of customs classification, explaining customs classification in detail, improving the corporate system of customs classification, dispute resolution in relation to customs classification, Application for classification pre-ruling; Pre-classification guidance and reporting advice);
- Customs price-reviewing consulting (introducing the principles of customs price-reviewing, explaining customs price-reviewing in detail, improving the corporate system of customs price-reviewing, and dispute resolution/alleviation of customs price-reviewing);
- Commodity inspection consulting (introducing laws on commodity inspection, explaining commodity inspection in detail, improving the corporate system of commodity inspection, and dispute resolution of disputes in relation to commodity inspection);
- Handling alleged violation cases (including pre-event investigation and communication/negotiation with departments);
- Handling alleged customs criminal cases (including pre-event investigation, intervention by police, intervention by procurator, and defence at first and second instances in court);
- Providing solutions to logistics customs procedures (the procedure of international trade, the procedure of international cargo transportation, the procedure of cross-border e-commerce) and scheme formulation;
- Internal control design and supervision of maritime logistics; and
- Other legal services related to logistics customs.
legal services for Maritime
- Providing solutions to maritime disputes (including ship collision, ship pollution, crew casualties, marine salvage and general average), assisting with negotiation and reconciliation, coping with collective disputes, and communicating with governmental departments;
- Reviewing contracts on maritime commodity transportation, ship leasing and maritime insurance, handling disputes of port detention, container detention and delivering goods without original bill of lading, dealing with disputes of early ship re-delivery and ship withdrawal, and settling insurance claims;
- Sale, purchase, construction, and financing of ships;
- Contractual review, mitigating risks during ship sale and purchase, handling negotiations, handling emergency disputes in ship construction, consulting and risk evaluation of financing methods; and
- Providing consulting services on shipping investment, shipping policy, shipping laws and regulations, as well as investment environment appraisal and policy analysis.
Main achievements
- Assisted a Japanese-invested trading company in handling customs violation cases, guided it to negotiate with the customs, and finally avoided the company being given administrative punishment by the customs;
- Assisting a Japanese-invested manufacturing company in handling suspected criminal cases at the customs, communicating with the customs on its behalf, and finally making the case correctly identified as an administrative violation case;
- Assisted a Japanese-invested processing trade company in formulating its internal customs compliance system and supervising its implementation. Through the implementation of this system, the company's customs risk was significantly reduced, and the amount of tax supplementary payment was also controlled within a reasonable range;
- Assist a Japanese-invested trading company to negotiate with the insurance company on general average issues, so that the company's general average can be reasonably settled;
- Acting as an agent for a Japanese-invested international forwarding company in a civil lawsuit in Shanghai Maritime Court in the case of container demurrage charges and ultimately winning the lawsuit, effectively safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the client.