About Us

Fatih UZUN, who worked as a Customs Investigator in Ministry of Customs and Trade of Turkey for 11 years, is an expert and knowledgeable on customs and foreign trade law, customs disputes, customs cases, post-clearance customs controls and customs aıdits, customs and foreign trade, free zones and foreign exchange legislations and smuggling lawsuits.

After graduating from Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Public Administration in 2003, he worked as an Assistant Tax Auditor at the Revenue Administration for a while. After being successful in the entrance exam, he became Assistant Customs Investigator on 29 December 2005 and was appointed as Customs Investigator in September 2009.

During his career as a customs investigator, Fatih UZUN has carried out duties such as inspecting and auditing customs authorities, national and multinational corporations and customs brokership companies, money laundering and smuggling investigations. Fatih UZUN has extensive knowledge in his field both theoretically and practically.

As of the end of 2016, he resigned from his position as customs investigator and worked for approximately 7 years as a “Partner” in charge of customs and foreign trade in one of Turkey’s leading tax and law offices and 2 years as a member of board one of the country’s large-scale customs clearance and logistic firm.

Between 2014 and 2021, he took part as an instructor in various training programs on “Customs-Foreign Trade-Foreign Exchange Legislation and Practises” organized by Yıldız Technical University Education Center, Chamber of Certified Public Accountants of Istanbul and The Academy of Foundation of Tax Inspectors.

He holds authorized customs broker licence.

He completed his master’s degree in the “Multinational Trade” program at Boston University in the United States between 2012 and 2014, and is currently continuing his doctoral studies in the Management-Organization program of Istanbul University, Department of Business Administration.

He has published numerous articles in various magazines and websites, as well as books titled “Foreign Trade Transactions and Accounting Practices-2013”, “Customs Fines in 125 Questions-2015” and “Customs-Foreign Trade-Foreign Exchange Legislation Question Bank and Answers” for Sworn-in CPA Exam.

He continues to write in his column titled “Customs and Foreign Trade World” in Ekonomim newspaper.

Having more than 20 years of extensive knowledge and experience in its field, our office was established to provide consultancy, audit and training activities in the field of customs and foreign trade to national and international clients. Our aim is to be a reliable solution partner of our clients in the field of customs and foreign trade, which requires highly technical knowledge and expertise, and to support our clients with advisory, audit and training services by coming up with tailor-made solutions for companies within a boutique service approach to ensure that they remain in the “Safe Side” in terms of customs and foreign trade legislation.

Today, the obligations of businesses carrying out foreign trade transactions towards customs and foreign trade legislation do not end only with the clearance of the importation or exportation processes of goods. Post-clearance customs controls, sectoral customs audits, administrative and judicial litigation processes for customs disputes, requirements of the authorized economic operator status, investigations regarding anti-dumping and countervailing duty practices, obligations within the scope of foreign exchange legislation, the objections to be prepared concerning the accruals and customs fines issued by customs administrations and customs compromise processes have now made it almost mandatory for obliged parties to outsource advisory and audit services in field of customs and foreign trade, in addition to their operational activities regarding customs and foreign trade.

Apart from this, we also carry out the reporting processes that must be prepared by authorized customs brokers in line with the relevant legislation.

In our office, the experiences gained at the highest level in both the public and private sectors are transformed into value-creating outputs that enable the identification of risks and opportunities by analyzing the activities of our clients in the field of customs and foreign trade and ensure full compliance in terms of the legal requirements.

Our Mission

To add value to companies activities by providing advisory, audit and training services regarding their processes in the field of customs and foreign trade and to support company operations in this context to be in compliance with all legal regulations and requirements regarding customs and foreign trade regulations

Our Vision

To be an independent, objective and highly regarded office with its technical knowledge and expertise at the highest level and to be trusted by national and international clients in the field of customs, foreign trade, foreign exchange legislation and practices, customs law, customs advisory, audit and training services