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Sam Davies, Solicitor, McGrigors, gives us a round-up of the year's customs duty classification cases and asks, what have we learned?

 
Sam Davies Solicitor McGrigors gives us a round-up of the year's customs duty classification cases and asks what have we learned?
 
The past year broadly equating to the school year has seen our valiant VAT & Duties Tribunal Chairmen charged with classifying a plethora of exciting goods ranging from beautician's plastic nail tips to physicist's spectrometers. I often wonder whether our Chairmen look forward to getting their teeth stuck into thrilling arguments such as whether compression hosiery can be considered a fashion item or whether a patchwork quilt can be described as bedding. On the upside Chairmen no doubt delight in being requested to inspect the likes...

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