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Are You Overpaying on Import Duties? Key Insights for Furniture Importers

Tuesday, Apr 14 at 10:30 am AEST

Join our online webinar to uncover how to cut import duty costs on furniture and save big!

The Australian Furniture Association (AFA) is hosting a webinar presented by Nexus Point Group, exploring how import duties, tariff concessions, and current market conditions impact the true landed cost of imported goods and potential revenue leakage.With ongoing global shipping uncertainty and increasing compliance focus, it is critical for importers to understand how duties are applied, where risks sit, and where recovery opportunities may exist.

Date: Tuesday, 14 April
Time: 10:30am AEST
Location: Online webinarWhat Will Be Covered

• Market update – Current global freight trends and what they mean for Australian furniture importers

• Understanding import duties – How duties are assessed, including common classification and documentation risks

• Tariff Concession Orders (TCOs) – When duty-free treatment may apply and how the process works in practice

• Compliance and risk – Key responsibilities under Australia’s self-assessment system and how to reduce exposure

• Review and recovery opportunities – Overview of duty audits, refunds, duty drawbacks, and identifying revenue leakage

Invitation to provide feedback: Supporting industry to increase recycled content in products.

Wednesday, 22 April & Tuesday, 28 April

Location: Online (MS Teams). We will be using a Miro board for workshop discussions.

Target audience: product designers, procurement team, project managers, supply chain analysts, sustainability professionals.

Consultation overview: The NSW Government has released the new NSW Recycled Content Reporting Guide, which sets out how agencies are to preference products that contain recycled content on an ‘if not, why not’ basis, set out in the Net Zero Government Operations Policy. The NSW Government is leveraging its purchasing power to improve sustainable outcomes and create opportunities for suppliers and manufacturers who supply products with recycled content.

These workshops, hosted by the Choose Circular team at the Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water (DCCEEW), aims to understand the challenges and opportunities for increasing recycled content in products. Help shape the NSW Government’s approach to support options for industry to use more recycled content in products!

Register here by Thursday 16 April

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