Chemicals & life sciences.
A wrong classification, a missed export control or an unscreened consignment is a compliance breach, not a held shipment. Gaston Schul runs customs for chemicals and life sciences where the stakes are highest: complex classification, dual-use export controls, sanctions and denied-party screening, and the documentation that hazardous and regulated goods demand.
WHERE CUSTOMS BITES
The chemicals customs risks you cannot get wrong.
Many chemicals and instruments are dual-use goods, controlled for export in every market you ship from. Sending one without the right export licence or check is a breach, with serious consequences for the business and its directors.
Selling to the wrong party or destination can break sanctions law. Screening has to be done, and evidenced, on every transaction.
Chemical products, mixtures and instruments are some of the hardest goods to classify, and the code drives the duty, the controls and which regimes apply.
Chemical registration, hazard classification and labelling, and dangerous-goods rules all demand specific documentation, done right, every time.
HOW WE HELP
The customs and compliance layer your products need.
Trade Compliance
Sanctions and denied-party screening, export-control and licence checks, audits and internal controls, run and evidenced so you can prove compliance.
Tariff Classification
Complex chemical products, mixtures and instruments classified correctly, with the reasoning recorded and Binding Tariff Information where it helps.
Authorisations & Licensing
Export licences and the authorisations your operation runs on, applied for and maintained.
Customs Clearance
Specialist declarations for hazardous and regulated goods, filed right first time across the markets you trade in.
Customs & Trade. Controlled.
Gaston Schul does more than clear your goods. We connect it all and run it as one. That is what one full-service operating model gives you, across all your customs and trade in Europe: the clarity to see, the control to govern, and the confidence to decide.
GET IN TOUCH
From compliance questions to clear answers.
Tell us what you make and where you ship it, and an expert will tell you where your controls need to be tighter. No obligation, just a clear answer from people who know customs.
Chemicals & Life Sciences FAQs
Chemicals & Life Sciences: frequently asked questions
We check whether your products are controlled, confirm the licences and end-use checks each shipment needs, and screen the parties and destinations against sanctions and denied-party lists, keeping the evidence so you can prove every decision. It is the difference between a saving and a breach, and we treat it that way.
Yes. Chemical mixtures and instruments are among the hardest goods to classify, and we determine the correct code, record the reasoning, and secure a Binding Tariff Information ruling where a product is high-value or borderline, so the classification holds.