General information


Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Jesus Ezequiel Martínez Marín

Trimester: Second term

Credits: 6

Teaching staff: 

Rodrigo Guichon

Teaching languages


  • Catalan
  • Spanish

Skills


Specific skills
  • Demostrar capacitat per comunicar de manera fluida en llengua espanyola, catalana i anglesa de forma oral i escrita en l'entorn de la logística i els negocis marítims

  • Show knowledge and skills for the coordination of the departments of purchasing, supply, production and distribution of a product to any company, analyzing different types of techniques

  • Operationalize the storage of goods, through computer applications of logistics management

  • Select and use quantitative instruments for decision making and contrasting economic hypotheses

Description


LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The fundamental objective in learning the subject consists in the acquisition by the student of basic general knowledge that will allow him to understand the structure, organization and operation of the customs system and its contribution to the logistics process.

Contents


1.- CUSTOMS REGULATIONS AND THE INTRODUCTION OF GOODS IN THE CUSTOMS TERRITORY 

  • customs Concept of Customs Union. 

  • Free Trade Association. Customs Union 

  • The EU Customs Union. Free Trade Associations and Customs Unions in the World.

  • The Community Customs Code.

  • Functions of customs. 

  • The new security requirements at Customs. 

  • The Customs Representative. 

 

2.- KEY ELEMENTS OF INTERACTION WITH CUSTOMS

 

  1. classification 

 

  • Identification of commodity codes.

  • The Harmonized System of Tariff Classification.

  • The Combined Nomenclature of the European Union. 

  • The Integrated Tariff of the European Communities (TARIC).

  • Basic notions of tariff classification. 

 

  1. Origin of the goods

 

  • Preferred origin

  • Non-preferential origin

  • Associated documents

 

  1.  The value to Customs. concept Valuation methods.

 

  • Tariff Policy: Changes to tariff rates. Trade regimes: trade protection. security Trade defense measures.

  • Identification of Tariff Rights

  • Tariff franchises. Special Taxes

 

3.- Customs controls: 

 

  • inspections What type 

  • Certificates Different types.

 

4.- Merchandise regimes

 

- Export/Import

- Suspended regimes

 

 

 

5.- Other key elements of international operations

 

  • INCOTERMS® 2020

 

6.- Customs and the company

 

  • The figure of the different members of the company and their interaction with customs

  • Type of company: logistic vs. freight forwarder vs. customs representative

  • The Customs Administration: operation

 

7.- The authorized economic operator

 

  • The trusted figure in the international customs field: the OAS.

Evaluation system


Resolution and delivery of a practical exercise.

Application

20%

Realization and presentation of a group project

Application of the concepts

25%

participation 75% attendance in classes

Conceptual and monitoring of the subject

5%

Final exam (a minimum of 5 points is required to make the average)

Synthesis

50%

REFERENCES


Basic

Regulation (EU) nº 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of October 9, 2013, establishing the customs code of the Union. (TWO, October 10, 2013

Customs management manual – Pedro Coll

 Incoterms 2020, ICC Rules for the use of national and international commercial terms. ISBN: 978-84-89924-63-5

 Memento Francis Lefebvre – Customs