Education Contracts
SUPPLYING HIGHER & FURTHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS
As a Crown Commercial Services (CCS) Supplier, Uniserve Group manages the import and export of goods to Colleges and Universities in the UK – including acting as the Customs agent to sit between your staff and the international consignor of goods.
Uniserve keep delays to shipments to an absolute minimum by ensuring import and export related paperwork is complete correctly, the right commodity codes are applied on the commercial invoice, and that tariffs and VAT are properly allocated.
The service is available between 08:00 and 18:00 Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays) via telephone, email and a graphical user interface (GUI).
To achieve this, Uniserve provides Warehousing and Logistics services under the CCS RM6074 Framework. Scroll down to find out more about this service.
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OUR Educational services
IMPORTS
- Provision of carriage services either through the supplier’s own resources or a supply chain partner.
- Physical handling of goods in transit at border points.
- Customs clearance services – either directly for the Customer.
- Provide customs documentation to the carrier.
- Liaison with carriers at relevant UK border control points.
- Provide customs clearance service as per the Customer’s instructions.
- Provide estimates, along with supporting invoices, for import duty and taxes.
- Once cleared, inform the carrier and the Customer, and provide the Customer, and where required the carrier, with the electronic copy of final declaration and duty/tax amount.
- Provision of a different account (where required)
EXPORTS
- Provision of carriage services either through the supplier’s own resources or a supply chain partner.
- Physical handling of goods in transit at border points.
- Documentation preparation and T1 transit document processing (inc TIR Carnet, ATA Carnet, Community Goods) – either in paper form or processed via New Computerised Transit System (NCTS) / Customs Handling of Imports and Exports Freight (CHIEF) based National Export System (NES)
- Provide customs clearance documentation to the commercial carrier.
- Liaise with the carrier regarding departure and arrival at the clearance site.
- Provide Customs clearance service as per the Customer’s instructions using local partners where necessary.
- Where necessary, ask local partner to provide an estimate, along with a supporting invoice, for local import duty and taxes.
- Once cleared, inform the carrier and the Customer, and provide a final electronic copy of the final declaration and duty/tax amount.
- Provision of a different account (where required).
ADDITIONAL SERVICES
- Claiming Customs duty and import VAT relief (including but not limited to the most appropriate relief to use and, therefore, the relevant Customs Procedure Code, supporting documentation required (such as VAT or NIRU certificates);
- Additional licences, that may be required in relation to certain goods (e.g. animal by-products, controlled goods);
- Flexibility with regard to payment of import taxes, such as one off payments, use of client/agent duty deferment account, postponed VAT accounting.