Import Logistics

The logistical outsourcing designed for SMEs importing and distributing in Italy and Europe simplifies the goods flow with financial savings for over 30% of the purchase value of the goods. The goods received from the port/airport is directly put into the custom deposit, that is a deposit authorized for the custody of goods coming from outside the European Union in suspension of duties and VAT. Inside the deposit goods undergo some operations (“usual handling”), such as picking, assembling, packaging, groupage, degroupage. Goods are extracted (partially as well) according to the client’s needs, independently of when and in what conditions they were introduced into the deposit. The client communicates which goods they want to extract and MGDP provides for custom operations and distribution on the territory. In case they are sold in countries outside of the EU, goods are shipped with no custom operation (import export) and without paying duties and VAT.

VAT deposit

With MGDP you can bring to Italy goods coming from abroad without them being subject to VAT: financial exposure is reduced and operations inside the UE are simplified thanks to fiscal deposit. VAT deposit is a warehouse where it is possible to put, guard and subject to operations community or national goods already released for free circulation (i.e. “imported”) without them being subject to VAT. VAT deposit allows to simplify VAT fulfillment on the following operations.

Fiscal representation

Economic operators who do not reside in Italy and want to enter the national market can fulfill the deriving fiscal obligations and exercise the related rights in three ways:

• Create in Italy a table organization, through which they can operate (this is an extremely onerous option);
• Identify themselves as taxable subject, with a VAT registration number (this possibility is provided only for subjects residing in the EU)
• Name a fiscal representative, living in Italy and with a VAT registration number. With this last option, the fiscal representative provides for invoicing, registration and settlement of the tax due in Italy.

The optimal solution:

With the assistance of fiscal representation, companies from outside the EEC can fulfill the obligations or exercise the rights deriving from the VAT application related to taxable operations made or received on Italian soil.

The Labelling and Public Conditioning of textile materials service, run by the company Magazzini Generali Doganali di Prato at the laboratories of the state technical institute “Tullio Buzzi”, carries out these activities:

Labelling of textile materials service

The laboratory performs analysis aimed at determining the qualitative and quantitative fibre composition of textile products (raw materials, semifinished and finished products), including determining the fibre composition of textile products containing precious animal fibres (e.g. cashmere, mohair, angora, etc.). Tests are performed in compliance with chemical, microscopical and manual separation methods as described in national (EU regulation 1007/2011) and international (e.g. ISO, AATCC, ASTM norms; GB, etc) legislations. The laboratory, provided with sophisticated tools (e.g. scanning electron microscope [SEM]), offers a valued service in performing analysis on textile products containing precious animal fibres; this activity is internationally recognized, as the laboratory is accredited by the US institute CCMI (Cashmere and Camelhair Manifacturers Institute – Boston).