Martin Chifarimba
Customs Entry Specialist
Johannesburg
Summary
Expert and Professional Customs Broker with 14 years of firsthand shipping experience managing import and export cargo. Strong grasp of laws governing global trade, restrictions and tariffs. Additional strengths producing accurate reports and comprehending regulatory documents and statements. Knowledgeable of restrictions, insurance and taxes governed by national and international regulations. Logical thinker, skilled and confirming data and providing solutions to complex issues.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Customs Specialist
Blair Shipping services
Johannesburg
3 2023 - Current
- Managing food grade bonded warehouse
- My work involves Warehouse entries
- Duty paying entries
- Tariff determination, framing road freight entries including VOCs
- Advising tariff codes, VAT & duty to clients, solving customs queries, customs refunds
- Import and export forwarding, pre-alert, request ANF and landside charges from shipping lines, pre-advising, and status to clients, arrange merchant haulier and transport
- Arrange import release with shipping lines, quotes, and estimation.
Customs Senior Entry Clerk
Cargo Compass
Johannesburg
07.2022 - 02.2023
- Advising tariff codes and duties and vat to sales team for estimation purposes
- Framing all modes of entries
Customs Brokerage Senior Clerk
ISS Integrated service Solution
Cape Town & Johannesburg
06.2020 - 06.2022
- Customs Broker, advising tariff codes and duties to sales team for estimation purposes
- Framing entries, VOCs, attend to customs queries, customs refunds, assisting new registering clients with DA185 applications, ITAC permits, attend to customs stops.
Stacks Logistics
Cape Town
South Africa
05.2018 - 05.2021
- Bill of entry framing all modes and submission to customs, VOCs, tariff determination, vat and duty calculation, attending customs queries, attend to customs examination, arranging euro & SADC certificates, attend to port health, plant
- Import and export forwarding, pre-alert, request ANF and landside charges from shipping lines, pre-advising, and status to clients, arrange merchant haulier and transport
- Arrange import release with shipping lines, quotes, and estimation
- Road freight management
Customs entry Clerk
Ziegler south Africa
Cape Town
06.2014 - 10.2018
- Framing bill of entries imports & export air and sea, RITs and RIBs, voucher of correction, carnet release, duty refunds, attend to customs examinations, arrange euro1 & SADC certificates, invoicing
- Bond Clerk: framing warehouse entries
Customs Entry Clerk
BroadSpeed Logistics
Cape Town
01.2009 - 07.2014
- Creating client profiles on system, Import and export forwarding, File registration, framing bill of entries, tracking shipments, requesting ANF, line invoice, line bookings
Truck Driver & Warehouse (Volunteering work)
Federal Clearing
Cape Town
07.2006 - 12.2008
Buyer
Surgimed Trading
Harare
06.1998 - 11.2004
Debtors & Creditors Clerk
Surgimed Trading
Harare
06.1992 - 05.1997
Education
High School Diploma -
Mabvuku High School
Harare, Zimbabwe 04.1988 - 04.1991
Skills
Incoterms Knowledge
Import-Export Regulations, Operations and Forwarding
Transportation Planning
Shipping Coordination
Shipping coordination
Customs Clearance Knowledge
Tariff Code Determination Knowledge
Quotation and Estimates
VAT and Duty calculation Knowledge
Export Freight Forwarding
import Freight Forwarding
Valuation Techniques
Export Controls
International Logistics
References
- Fatima Taliep, +27 67 404 4194
- Collins Tusi, +27 84 390 8317
- Joleen Pillay, +27 76 991 9334
Accomplishments
- Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
- Achieved setting new company profiles by introducing software CargoWise and Shipshape tasks. Customs importer and Exporter applications.
- Supervised staff members.
Timeline
Customs Senior Entry Clerk
Cargo Compass
07.2022 - 02.2023
Customs Brokerage Senior Clerk
ISS Integrated service Solution
06.2020 - 06.2022
Stacks Logistics
Cape Town
05.2018 - 05.2021
Customs entry Clerk
Ziegler south Africa
06.2014 - 10.2018
Customs Entry Clerk
BroadSpeed Logistics
01.2009 - 07.2014
Truck Driver & Warehouse (Volunteering work)
Federal Clearing
07.2006 - 12.2008
Buyer
Surgimed Trading
06.1998 - 11.2004
Debtors & Creditors Clerk
Surgimed Trading
06.1992 - 05.1997
High School Diploma -
Mabvuku High School
04.1988 - 04.1991
Customs Specialist
Blair Shipping services
3 2023 - Current