Lionel Van Reet, Author at Global Compliance News

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Lionel Van Reet

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Lionel joined Baker McKenzie as customs lead in February 2022. He has over 23 years of experience in the field of customs, international trade, excises and energy levy. Lionel is lecturer at the UIA (Antwerp) and ULG (Liege). He is in charge of the customs, excises and international trade course at the Solvay Tax MBA.
In 2023, Lionel was appointed by the Global ICC board as Chair of the ICC Global Customs Valuation Working Group.
Lionel is also chairing the Indirect Taxes subcommitee of AMCHAM BE.
Lionel's Indirect Tax practice team has been recognized as Tier 1 Indirect Tax Team in Belgium by ITR World Tax.

In Europe

United Kingdom: The UK found to have failed to fulfil customs control and availability of EU own resources obligations regarding undervalued imports of textiles and footwear from China

March 21, 2022 by Sophie Armstrong and Lionel Van Reet 2 Mins Read

The European Court of Justice released its judgement on 8 March 2022 in relation to Case C-213/19 (Commission v United Kingdom), concerning the UK’s undervaluing of imports of textiles and footwear from China and associated failure to fulfil obligations regarding customs control and the recovery of EU own resources, through failing to adopt measures necessary to combat fraud.

In Belgium

Belgium – Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia Suspend Export Licenses to Russia

March 7, 2022 by Geert Bovy and Lionel Van Reet 1 Min Read

On February 24, 2022, each of the three Belgian Regions (the Flemish, Walloon and Brussels Regions) announced that all export licenses issued by their services with Russia as destination country or country of end-use will be temporarily suspended. The suspension will be evaluated on a day-to-day basis.