Clearances / Specializations
Experience in numbers and facts
Piotr joined Lublin Union GR & Audit in March 2017. Since then, he has conducted audits for exactly 143 trade contracts of companies from the Lublin region. He does not deal with theoretical lectures on trade. His work involves the daily checking of shipping documents and looking for errors that could stop goods at the border in Dorohusk or Hrebenne. Numbers don't lie – in 2023 alone, he detected inconsistencies in 24 customs declarations, which allowed our clients to avoid financial penalties.
Last quarter, Piotr worked on a case for a machine parts exporter where a classification error could have cost the company 13,400 PLN in additional duties. Thanks to a thorough verification of SAD documents within 5 business days, the errors were corrected before the goods were shipped. Piotr follows the principle that the border is not just a line on a map. It is primarily a maze of regulations that change, on average, every 4 months in the customs industry.
Practical approach to auditing
Before joining LUGR, he worked for 7 years at a customs agency at a transshipment terminal. There he learned that a single misplaced comma in an invoice can block a shipment for 4 days. In our team, Piotr is responsible for the initial audit. We check facts, not promises – this is his main motto while working with documentation. If he sees that the papers are incomplete, he says it straight out, without beating around the bush.
Currently, he focuses on risk analysis for companies trading with Eastern markets. In the period from January to June 2024, he prepared reports for 29 new export contracts. He uses specific databases and verifies the legal status of contractors so that our clients do not step on a legal landmine. No fluff about theory – Piotr delivers clean data that allows for a decision on shipping the goods or halting the transaction.
Piotr usually needs 3 to 6 business hours for a detailed analysis of one set of documents. He doesn't promise instant results in 10 minutes because reliable verification requires focus. He can be brutally honest: if a contract is risky, he will advise against signing it. 91% of the shipments he checked in the last six months passed customs inspection without any remarks from the officials. Heads-up: Piotr usually doesn't answer phones before 9:00 AM because that's when he finishes analyzing the morning customs reports.