Do you transport excise goods and work with EMCS (Excise Movement and Control System)? Do you know the changes of the new EMCS? Have you applied for the new customs permits? For all our customers, Gateway is ready to help and provide you a smooth and worry-free transition to the new EMCS 4.0.

Gateway is a leading customs software developer since 1980. In 2020, we launched GWITC^© (Gateway in the Cloud). In 2022, Gateway started cooperation with Microsoft Azure. Many of clients work now on Azure and benefit from its dynamic strengths.

Hooray! Theo works 20 years now at Gateway! This is definitely a great milestone to celebrate and cherish the great cooperation, hard work, and many beautiful moments we have shared together.

The Dutch Customs has made a new planning for the transition to the new systems of DMS 4.0 and DMS 4.1. The old planning was previously postponed due to some IT connection issues, which luckily have already been solved.

Due to the growth of the Gateway team, it’s necessary for us to move into a larger office. Luckily, we have found a beautiful office very close to our current one. 

Christmas Lunch is really a must-do at Gateway. It’s been our long-hold tradition to host Christmas Lunch for our beloved colleagues.

On 19 November 2022, the Customs has published a new version of Tariff/DTV (in Dutch: Douane Tarief Voorziening). There are several adjusted document codes that exporters should use in customs declarations for preferential origin purposes.  

On 1 January 2023, the EU commodity codes in the Harmonized System (HS) will be adjusted. This can have large impacts on your import and export customs declarations, and the determination of your VAT tariff for your international products. 

Do you handle e-commerce packages sold from outside the EU? Do you want to be entitled to the exemption of customs duties? Gateway offers an all-in-one solution for your e-commerce customs activities, which can largely simplify, automate, and accelerate your whole e-commerce logistic process.  

Do you deal with a Bonded Warehouse? Do you make use of GPA (Automated Periodic Declaration), DIN/DEN, or any other IIAA (Entry in the Declarant’s Records) permit? Then Gateway has a perfect all-in software solution for managing your bonded warehouse and all IIAA administrations.

Gateway is now 42 years old! While we couldn't celebrate our 40th anniversary due to Corona, we went to Berlin in 2022 for a big celebration. 

The PGTS function in Gateway enables users to send the necessary messages to Cargonaut's PGTS system for registration in the RTO (Temporary Storage)

A lot is happening in the development of DMS4.0 and the end of the project is near. In order to inform and prepare our customers as well as possible, we have organized an additional information session about DMS4.0. Below is a brief summary of the topics discussed.

Autumn is the time of the Asian festival in honor of the new harvest. The Mid-Autumn Festival! This is a traditional festival with a history dating back 3000 years! It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the “lunar calendar”. 

Customs has called on all IIAA license holders to make a choice regarding the scenario that applies to them.

Apart from the fact that we are experts in the field of Customs Software, our colleagues are also experts in the field of Gaming! And I have to say that occasionally makes you laugh… 

To date, mismatches have regularly taken place between the Declaration for Temporary Storage (ATO) and the further AGS declaration, and many items on the ATO remain untreated. If an AGS declaration is not accepted, the cargo may not leave the terminal and you can imagine what kind of delay this will cause in the logistics process. Let alone the fines that may be handed out.

Today we were able to deliver our DECO application to our customer. Experience the look and feel before they can really get started, because from 1 July the time has come, then e-Commerce shipments can be declared via the new DECO system of Customs.