Integrin Customs

Three ways to start a declaration

An import declaration has a header and a goods item for each kind of goods, however it was put together.

A declaration can be entered directly, with each goods item picking up the seller, buyer, procedure and exchange rate from the header. It can be built from the commercial invoices behind it, or created by another system through the API.

Goods items from commercial invoices

Each goods item on the declaration has to match what was invoiced, and like items are declared together.

Commercial invoices can be imported from PDFs or spreadsheets and linked to the declaration. Integrin builds the goods items from their lines, grouped by commodity code, origin and preference, and converts amounts at the rate for the tax point. Changes made to a goods item are kept when the items are rebuilt.

Additions and deductions prorated

Revenue sets out, for each incoterm, the additions to and deductions from the customs value that have to be declared, such as freight and insurance.

Choosing the incoterm adds the additions and deductions set for it. Amounts entered on the declaration are prorated across the goods items by invoice value, net mass or gross mass.

Checked against Revenue's rules

A declaration Revenue rejects costs time at the border.

Validate checks the declaration against the business rules, and warns where totals that should agree do not, such as gross mass and packages. Each problem names the rule behind it, and clicking it goes to the field to fix. A declaration can't be submitted while any error remains.

Customs, CBAM and EUDR from the same declaration

An import of steel, aluminium, cement or fertiliser from outside the EU is also a CBAM import, and goods such as wood, cocoa, coffee or rubber need an EUDR due diligence statement.

Integrin recognises CBAM goods from the commodity code, origin and procedure on each goods item, and calculates the CBAM emissions and cost from the same goods items, so customs and CBAM agree.

A goods item whose commodity code falls under the EUDR has to quote its due diligence statement before the declaration passes Validate, and the statement shows the declarations that quote it.

Declarations lodged elsewhere

An importer's CBAM obligation covers every import of CBAM goods, whoever lodged the declaration.

Declarations already accepted through another system can be imported from PDFs or spreadsheets. They are kept read-only as accepted declarations beside the ones prepared in Integrin, and their CBAM goods are costed in the same way.

Full audit trail

A declarant has to be able to show how each declaration was made up and who changed it.

Everything done to a declaration is audited: who did what, and when, from the invoices linked and the goods items built to the submission and acceptance. Its documents, references and linked invoices are held on the declaration.

Separate customer workspaces

A broker prepares declarations for many importers and has to keep each one's records apart.

Each customer's declarations are kept in their own workspace. The broker works across all of them with one login, and decides whether customers sign in.