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Damon has 12 years experience in Asia advising companies on customs, trade and related supply-chain and logistics matters, the last 5 years of which have been spent in Shanghai, China. Damon assists clients in various areas, including: customs audit and investigation dispute resolution, customs compliance and opportunity reviews, establishing customs-supply chain efficient business models, establishing regional distribution centres, establishing a customs centre of excellence, reverse logistics and low cost sourcing.
Damon's China experience is spread across Northern, Central and Southern China and includes Processing Trade (model design, optimisation and handbook management), customs valuation, tariff classification, free trade agreements, bonded zones (Free Trade Zones, Bonded Logistics Parks, Bonded Port Areas, Export Processing Zones, Bonded Warehouses), used capital equipment importation, duty-free capital equipment importation, disposal, sale and transfer of bonded capital equipment, and other duty exemption and reduction policies.
Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, Damon was a Customs Officer with the New Zealand Customs Service, based in Auckland. He gained experience in a number of customs areas such as audit in respect of customs valuation, preferential trading arrangements under CER, duty drawback, tariff classification and tariff concessions.
Damon has a Masters in Customs Law and Administration from the University of Canberra in Australia originally graduated in Business Studies in 1997 from the Auckland University of Technology. Damon is also a member of the American Chamber Shanghai Customs Task Force. |
