As an importer you may have considerable flows of goods coming from countries outside the EU.  In order to release these goods for free circulation, an import declaration should be filed.

Declaration process

Many importers outsource the import process to customs brokers who take care of filing the declarations by means of the SAGITTA system, which is managed by Customs. In that respect, you may receive overviews of SAGITTA from your customs brokers, containing the customs duties due.

These overviews are often indistinct or incomplete. Therefore, a complete and consolidated overview of the import information may not be available within your organization.

Import Analyzer

Deloitte has developed an efficient tool for analyzing data with respect to the import declarations recorded in SAGITTA.  To obtain the SAGITTA information from Customs, we require a power of attorney demonstrating that we are allowed to obtain that information.

By means of the Import Analyzer we will, based on the VAT identification number, analyse the import data for a specific period on, amongst others, the following aspects:

• Total amount of declarations per period;
• Overview of the place of declaration and the customs brokers;
• Overview of the various used Tariff codes;
• Total customs value and customs duties due per period;
• Overview of the countries of origin and countries of export mentioned in the declarations;
• Overview of the requested and preceding customs arrangements.

By means of this analysis, a complete and consolidated overview of the import information will be available within your organization.  Furthermore, together with Deloitte it can be determined whether deviant transactions have been recorded in SAGITTA.  We have experiences that customs brokers occasionally use the VAT identification number of other companies for filing import declarations.  Usually, this would stay unnoticed, but by analyzing the import data, it is easy to determine whether declarations have been filed mentioning unusual Tariff codes.

Furthermore, by means of this tool it is also possible determining the minimum yearly costs for filing the import declarations.  In that respect, we can prepare a business case in order to determine whether it may be opportune filing the import declarations yourself by means of simplified import procedure ‘Domproc’.