Watch: Beyond Brexit – Navigating global trade and customs (EP.5)

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Despite the agreement between the UK and the European Union, Brexit introduces many new trade and logistics complexities, from customs declarations to new storage and distribution patterns. At the same time, the global trade landscape continues to evolve fast across regions from North America to Asia Pacific, with implications for duties, logistics flows and compliance across the automotive supply chain through to the final customer. The early weeks of the year have already started to demonstrate some of the many challenges and complexities that OEMs, suppliers and logistics providers will face.

In this Livestream Hour, automotive customs and trade experts share practical insights on how to manage and thrive amidst these changes, including Volvo Cars’ head of global customs and export controls, Morten Steen Jensen, and GEFCO’s customs and fiscal representation director, Olivier Thouard.

Watch to learn how companies can navigate complex and continuous change in trade terms both in the context of Brexit and other global developments. Hear about different approaches to managing customs at manufacturers, whether through service providers or inhouse, and how customs teams’ roles are evolving from being seen as more of a support service and additional cost to becoming an integral, proactive enabler for supply chain optimisation and success.

Special Guests

Morten Steen Jensen
Head of global customs and export controls
Volvo Cars

Morten Steen Jensen leads the global customs & export control function at Volvo Car Group working to keep duty costs and compliance at the right level. Through speed and quick successive actions, he focuses on bringing the control of duties and compliance methodologies upstream to change the typically reactive and suboptimized duty mitigation process of the past. Instead, he works to directly influence design and development of new and existing products, sourcing decisions, and industrial strategies to place customs & export control data on par with part prices and logistics costs in decision making.

Olivier Thouard
Customs and fiscal representation director
GEFCO

Olivier Thouard leads the global customs and fiscal representation function at GEFCO to provide a large spectrum of strategic and operational services to leading manufacturers worldwide. With engineered, value-added solutions, he focuses on creating cost efficiencies and full operational compliance throughout the supply chain while working across GEFCO divisions to offer fully integrated logistics solutions. In parallel, he has developed strong Brexit expertise and links, including by participating and leading on key committees and task forces. These include: Chair of the TLF/TLF OVS Brexit Working Group and the European and International Affairs Commission; Vice-chair of the Customs and Indirect Tax Institute (CLECAT) in Brussels; and a participant of the British Intermediaries Task Force Group.

Moderator

Christopher Ludwig
Editor-in-chief
Ultima Media

Christopher Ludwig is responsible for editorial production and strategy across Ultima Media’s global automotive media platforms, including Automotive Logistics, Automotive Manufacturing Solutions, Car Design News and its business intelligence unit, Automotive from Ultima Media. He’s covered the automotive industry and supply chain for 15 years and has nearly 20 years’ experience in the media and publishing business. He has an MsC from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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