
Simon Sutcliffe
Partner
Customs & Excise Duty
Specialist areas
Bespoke advice on Customs Special Procedures such as Inward and Outward Processing Relief, Temporary Admission and the excise and customs warehousing regimes.
Additionally, help with the accurate classification of goods, ensuring that customs valuation methods are applied correctly, Simplified Declaration Procedures, Rules of Origin and ensuring that, where appropriate, Preference can be legitimately claimed and the registration and operational requirements for various HMRC regimes, easements and reliefs to ensure an efficient and cost-effective supply chain.
Sector specialisms include pharmaceuticals, textiles, tobacco, and technology, with specialist expertise in the movements of alcohol.
Services covered
Qualifications and positions of note
- Part of the SIBA (Small Independent Brewers Association) Business and Legal team
I am based at
Covent Garden
Contact Simon
Insights

Advanced Valuation Rulings – A welcome development for importers
HMRC will begin to offer Advanced Valuation Rulings to importers in order to accurately value their goods ahead of moving their consignments.

Windsor Framework – The grass isn’t always greener in the Green Lane
Whilst the Windsor Framework is welcomed, a 'frictionless' Green Lane will not be the reality for small to medium sized traders

The growing popularity of UK ‘nearshoring’ and ‘onshoring’ – Does it spell the end for extended supply chains?
Businesses are exploring ‘near-shoring’ and ‘on-shoring’ as a way of weathering the vagaries of potentially vulnerable international supply chains