Crucial topics for importing and exporting: • Customs Declarations

• Audit Compliance

• Legal Obligations and Liable Parties

• Incoterms

• Tariff Classification and Commodity Codes

• Duties and Tax Implications

• Rules of Origin and Preferential Treatment

• Requirements for SPS products

The importance of traders understanding their goods, their movement and their legal obligations when importing and exporting. To ensure goods move efficiently and compliantly through borders.

Melissa has been working in the area of customs clearance since 2020. Having immersed herself in the area since then, she has evolved into a highly experienced and certified Customs Clearance Consultant, Trainer, Mentor, and Declarant.

With a deep understanding of the complexities of international trade, she expertly navigates the movement of a plethora of products, procedures, and trade preferences across global borders. She brings expertise and a wealth of hands-on experience to her clients to ensure seamless customs compliance and efficiency.

Her mission is to streamline the overwhelming bureaucratic processes of global trade, ensuring her clients’ goods move seamlessly across global borders without unnecessary delays or costs and all while maintaining strict audit compliance.

Melissa is solutions oriented, offering personalised, professional support tailored to empower decision- makers by simplifying global trading to ensure that they can focus on growth and success in international markets. She equips importers and exporters with the bespoke knowledge required to understand their goods and their movements while adhering to legal obligations.

Melissa’s has an extensive portfolio including Agri products, foodstuffs & feed, clothing, chemicals, electronics, machinery, vehicles, jewellery, live animals and various commodities.