Where to start, depending on your need
Customs questions do not arise in the same way depending on what you are trying to secure. Identify yours — each entry leads to the right contact and the right deliverable.
Importing into the European Union
Securing your inbound goods: classification, origin, customs value, documents and authorisations, before the file goes out.
Exporting from the European Union
Certificates of origin, export declarations, outbound controls and the documents your non-EU customers expect.
Securing classification and origin
Two subjects behind most reassessments. We check your HS codes and your proofs of origin before an audit does.
Structuring customs data
Clean, consistent data that can be reused from one declaration to the next: that is what makes an operation auditable.
Steering your providers
Declarant, freight forwarder, software vendor: coordinating them without replacing them, and knowing who answers for what.
Meeting CBAM obligations
Eligibility file, collection of emissions data from your suppliers, coordination of your authorised CBAM declarant.
Preparing a regulatory or IT transition
EU customs reform, the PLDA to IDMS switch, AES, NCTS: preparing the flows, the data, the roles and the tests.
Two detailed paths, for the most frequent situations
We've designed two distinct paths, built on our packaged offers (Diagnostic, Control Tower, CBAM, Systems Transition), but adapted to your ground reality, your maturity level, and your regulatory stakes.
Importer established in Europe
You import regularly but don't have in-house customs expertise.
Your situation
- Dependence on your customs broker
- Lack of visibility on your compliance
- Risks tied to the EU Customs Reform 2026
Our approach
→ Outsourcing your customs function
- Control Tower (monthly steering)
- Documentary review
- Coordination of customs broker / freight forwarder
Non-EU producer
You manufacture outside the EU and want to access the European market in full compliance.
Your situation
- Complex regulatory requirements
- Lack of a local foothold
- CBAM obligations
Our approach
→ Your anchor point in Europe (Belgium)
- Ready-to-Import Diagnostic
- CBAM compliance setup
- Coordination of EU partners
Why CTB Group
Multilingual team
Full independence
No conflict of interest — we orchestrate, we don't replace.
Preventive approach
We step in before the blockage, not after.
Your situation doesn’t fit either path? That’s exactly where we specialise.
Some profiles call for a tailor-made set-up:
- Importers based outside the EU (United Kingdom, Switzerland, United States, Canada) facing European customs requirements
- European importers whose flows transit through Belgium
- European producers exporting outside the EU (certificates of origin, export declarations)
- Multi-source distributors (EU / non-EU) looking for centralised compliance
Not sure where to start?
We analyse your situation in 15 minutes and point you to the right solution.
No commitment
No jargon
Fast response
The files we handle
We do not publish our clients' names: customs compliance touches sensitive commercial data, and discretion is part of the service. Here, however, is the nature of the files that pass through our hands.
Brazilian wine imported and distributed in Europe
Excise duties, VI-1 certificate, labelling, origin and customs value, for distribution in France and Belgium.
Belgian religious articles exported to the United States
A flow where the proof of origin and the documents expected by the American buyer matter as much as the declaration.
Timber imported from Africa
Where customs compliance meets the EU deforestation regulation: traceability and due diligence.
Brazilian agri-food into the European Union
The EU–Mercosur corridor in practice: sanitary controls, certificates, direct coordination with producers in Portuguese.
Some of these are full assignments, others one-off interventions or collaborations with other firms on the parts they do not cover. We prefer to say so rather than display logos.
How do I know which path applies to me?
Hesitating between the two paths? Here's how to decide.
→Non-EU Producers path.
Mixed case. You're the importer on paper (company path), but you also carry the voice of the foreign producer before the EU (Producers path). We handle this case by combining both logics. The best way forward is to discuss it on a call.
You're an importing company with specific exposure to the removal of the €150 threshold and the new €3 flat duty. Company Importers path, with a dedicated focus on this transition.
→ Parcours Importateurs.