Local knowledge of realities

Office in the heart of Lublin, close to the border

Lublin Union GR & Audit is not a company from Warsaw that looks east only through Excel spreadsheets. Our team works at Krakowskie Przedmieście 24, just 94 kilometers from the border crossing in Dorohusk. Every day, we see how queues change and how local tax and customs offices interpret new regulations. This physical proximity allows us to react when goods get stuck at the terminal due to an error in one of the 14 required attachments. No waffling about theory – we go to the site or call the customs branch directly, with whom we have been cooperating for 8 years.

Last quarter, we analyzed exactly 156 customs cases for local exporters from the machinery and food industries. The numbers don't lie: errors in commodity classification occur in 23% of cases, generating an average of 4,200 PLN in additional costs for each day of downtime at the terminal. We check facts, not promises. Instead of talking about international law, we take your documentation and compare it with the current practice at the Tax Administration Chamber in Lublin.

• Verification of CN codes for 12 product groups in 48 hours.
• Preparation of applications for Binding Tariff Information (BTI) for 7 companies last month.
• Audit of 87 trade contracts for sanction risk in 2024.
• Direct support during customs and tax inspections in the Lublin Voivodeship.

The border is not just a line on a map. It is a set of specific procedures that can block the financial liquidity of a small manufacturing plant for 3 months. (By the way, the most common reason for blockages in March 2024 was the lack of a single signature on declarations of origin). Our knowledge comes from daily conversations with carriers and officials, not from reading general information brochures. We currently serve 47 regular clients, which allows us to maintain high precision and a reaction time of under 3.2 hours in urgent matters.

If you plan to ship goods worth more than 15,000 PLN to eastern markets, it's better to check the papers twice before loading. The first verification in our office usually takes between 3 and 5 hours of an analyst's work. This is enough to catch errors in invoices or waybills that could stop transport at the border for many weeks. We act concretely: we check stamps, codes, and authorizations so that your goods pass through clearance without unnecessary questions.