António Giro

Customs Associate · Farfetch

Santa Maria da Feira

Work Experience

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Customs Associate

2018 – Present

Global customs and international trade in-house advisory and management regarding an E-commerce platform of luxury fashion retail. Main projects: • Assessment of the company's customs valuation practice and implementation of a Duties and Taxes estimation software, integrated with the platform's pricing calculation; • Evaluation of the impacts of Brexit on the company's operations, from an indirect tax and customs' perspective, and preparation of a contingency plan; • Advisory on a supply chain's multi-country warehousing project, from an indirect tax and customs perspective; • Duty Drawback (United States) and Return Goods Relief (EU) assessment and implementation; • Assessment of the impact on e-commerce taxation, namely taxes on low value imported goods (Australia, New Zealand and Norway), as well as compliance solution design and implementation; • Assessment of customs classification accuracy within the company and writing of classification guidelines; • Preferential origin's assessment and procedure's implementation: EU-South Korea, EU-Canada, EU-Japan; • Country analysis regarding indirect tax and customs' framework, both from import and export perspective.

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Legal Customs and International trade

SONAE

2016 – 2018

Customs and international trade advisory and planning concerning Retail & Consumer sector, import licensing, tariff classification, practical application and optimization through Free Trade Agreements, customs valuation, export controls, insurance management, streamlining import/export activities and supply chain optimization. Main projects: • Customs advisory on the implementation of an end to end global trade management software; • Assessment of customs classification accuracy within the company and writing of classification guidelines; • Preferential origin's assessment and procedure's implementation: Pan-Euro-Med, EU's GSP (sourcing countries), EU-Turkey Customs Union; • Country analysis regarding indirect tax and customs' framework, both from import and export perspective; • Free trade zone and warehousing analysis in respect to Jebel Ali FTZ (Dubai).

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Tax Analyst

Deloitte (Portugal)

2015 – 2016

Corporate and Personal Tax advisory focused on Private Investment, M&A Tax Structuring, Tax Litigation and Tax Compliance, covering sectors such as Retail, Manufacturing and Banking.

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