Mikhail Saushkin, Head of Customs Payments Department of the North-Western Customs Administration (SZTU) was invited to the meeting to clarify the issues within the resolution regarding recovery and refund of overpaid customs payments. Also, the news in the customs valuation disputes - the conditions of applying the transaction value method, the procedure for carrying out additional inspections; allocating the burden of proof; legal view of recovery of penalties and interest payments, as well as appeals against decisions and actions of customs officials were discussed by the participants.

Such companies as Nissan, Group SEB Vostok, Ford Sollers Holding LLC, Port Hamburg, Ariston Thermo, Siemens Gas Turbine Technologies, DLA Piper, Beiten Burkhard, Rödl & Partner, Alinga Group and others participated in the meeting, asked questions to the representative of the SZTU and shared their practical experience.

The event was kindly hosted and supported by DLA Piper in St. Petersburg.

The presentations from the event may be found below: