Customs English Online
For Upper-Intermediate Students
Online, mehrtägig
This English course is designed to help customs practitioners improve their mastery of customs terminology and expression. The focus of the course is customs English within an EU context.
Besides the UCC and its procedures, topics include international agreements and instruments, contracts and business correspondence.
By encouraging discussion, the course will explain language errors and improve idiomatic expression using practical examples. Overall, the course will provide participants with a sound basis for continuing to develop and improve their English skills.
The trainer is a native English speaker and jurist, well acquainted with customs legal terminology.
This language course consists of 10 webinars of 60 minutes each, which are structured as follows:
- discussion of topics and related themes
- recapitulation of language points
- Q&A
Your benefits
As the world language, a sound command of English is an essential requirement for an international career. The higher your level of English, the greater the opportunities for utilising the latest publications by international organisations and academia thereby ensuring your trade strategies are accurate and forward-thinking.
It will also expand your opportunities for self-development, enabling you to participate in international conferences or postgraduate programmes as well as maintain effective dialogue with colleagues from other countries.
Webinar subjects
The following plan covers the major topics of international trade and EU customs law as a starting point for discussion. However, participants are also free to suggest their own topics and materials.
- International trade and regulation
Topics: international organisations, regions and trade blocs, embargoes and sanctions
- Public and private sector
Topics: customs and economic operators, their activities and regulation of the supply chain
- Goods
Topics: types of goods (incl. dual-use goods), classification, determination of origin and valuation
- Contracts
Terminology, parties, common law concepts, major clauses, disputes and legal remedies
- Customs debt
Topics: incurrence and discharge, joint and several liability; guarantees, repayment and remission
- Import
Topics: describing the procedure for release into free circulation
- Transit
Topics: intermodal transportation, describing the transit procedure
- Storage of goods
Topics: customs warehouses, free zones (UK), describing the warehousing procedure
- Export
Topics: export controls, describing the export procedure
Dates
- 14.08.2024, 12 pm - 1 pm CET
- 21.08.2024, 12 pm - 1 pm CET
- 28.08.2024, 12 pm - 1 pm CET
- 04.09.2024, 12 pm - 1 pm CET
- 11.09.2024, 12 pm - 1 pm CET
- 18.09.2024, 12 pm - 1 pm CET
- 25.09.2024, 12 pm - 1 pm CET
- 02.10.2024, 12 pm - 1 pm CET
- 09.10.2024, 12 pm - 1 pm CET
- 16.10.2024, 12 pm - 1 pm CET
Required English level:
Upper Intermediate (B2 CEFR)
Further information on this English level is available here:
Dr. Christopher Dallimore
Head of Studies - Master of Customs Administration Studiengang
AWA AUSSENWIRTSCHAFTS-AKADEMIE
Münster
Hinweis
Als unser Seminarteilnehmer haben Sie die Möglichkeit, uns Ihre speziellen Fach- und Praxisfragen vor dem Seminarbeginn zuzusenden. Diese wird der Referent dann gern im Seminar oder in der Pause mit Ihnen besprechen. Bitte senden Sie uns Ihre Fragen bis spätestens 2 Wochen vor Seminarbeginn über die Antwortfunktion Ihrer Anmeldebestätigung, damit wir Ihre Fragen dem Seminar zuordnen können.
Webinar € 1.099,00 zzgl. MwSt. *
