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Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Dave Zeitoun, Adv. Chen Avner Case Facts: An importer imported two-wheeled vehicles with an electric motor ("the goods"). In light of a dispute between the importer and the Customs Authority regarding the classification of the goods, and as the forfeiture…
Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Dave Zeitoun, Adv. Chen Avner Case Facts: An importer who sought to purchase a Mercedes luxury car through a broker. A few years after the car was imported, the Customs Authority contacted the importer, demanding that he pay additional import duties due to…
Customs & Trade in Israel A Legal Newsletter Adv. Gill Nadel, Chair of the Import, Export and International Trade Law Practice, Tax Department A New Nuclear Era and its Impact Upon Israeli Companies Active in the Global Arena Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Shirit Nackar, Adv. Mor Goshen…
Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Dave Zeitoun, Adv. Mor Goshen In an era of liberal global trade and a profusion of international commercial corporations, it is a common occurrence for commercial transactions to raise the question of whether this act may actually constitute trading with…
Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Dave Zeitoun, Adv. Mor Goshen The Haifa District Court recently accepted the claim of Sobhy Nachly And Sons Ltd., represented by Adv. Gill Nadel and Adv. Mor Goshen, against the Agriculture Ministry. The court ruled that a peanut shipment imported by Sobhy…
Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Dave Zeitoun, Or Lebaardt The court accepted the claim of a personal importer of a vehicle and ordered a retroactive cancelation of import duties. In 2010, the importer, an Israeli citizen, purchased and imported a BMW car through an American car agency.…
Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Dave Zeitoun, Yarden Baruch Case Facts: Israeli mobile network operator Pelephone purchased and imported BlackBerry cellphones to Israel from a supplier who owns the rights to the BlackBerry brand. Pelephone signed a framework agreement with the supplier,…
Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Dave Zeitoun, Chen Ben-Hayoun Background Many Israelis find themselves subject to a criminal investigation by Israel's tax authorities for allegations relating to various tax offenses. Under special circumstances, the law permits the conversion of…
Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Dave Zeitoun, Adv.Orel Asulin The Tax Authority caught and seized approximately 3kg of gold valued at over $115,000 at the Allenby Border Terminal (a land border crossing between Israel and Jordan). Three brothers attempted to smuggle the gold on different…
Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Dave Zeitoun, Adv. Chen Avner Background: In this article we will review the Tel Aviv Magistrate Court's ruling, which accepted most of an importer's request for discloser of documents which may attest to the classification dispute between the parties…
We wish to bring to your attention the ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) from November 12, 2019, regarding the obligation to label goods produced over the 'Green Line', and the possible legal ramifications of the ruling. Case Facts The ECJ's ruling was given…
Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Dave Zeitoun, Or Lebaardt The Jerusalem District Court rejected a claim filed under the Freedom of Information Law, 1998. The claim was filed by the owner of an oil and gas exploration company ("the company owner"). Case Facts: The company owner submitted a…
Adv. Gill Nadel Background: In 2013, the Customs and Purchase Tax Tariff Order was amended, levying a 30% purchase tax on yachts imported to Israel. As the enforcing entity, the Customs Authority decreed that yacht owners interested in venturing beyond Israel's borders must…
Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Dave Zeitoun, Chen Ben-Hayoun Case Facts: The importer, M.N. Systems For Transport & Industry Ltd., submitted a purchase tax return claim against the Customs Authority. The tax was paid by the importer under protest for the commercial import of tool boxes.…
Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Dave Zeitoun,Adv. Orel Asulin Hike An air conditioning company signed an agreement with an international forwarder on 25.9.08 for the forwarding of cooling equipment it owns from the Haifa Port to Russia, including a certain overland transport section. The…
Adv. Gill Nadel A recent ruling (TA 46492-01-16) given on 4.6.20 by the Lod District Court is highly significant for the customs field. In the following article, we will review the ruling regarding discounts given to a car importer, as well as its ramifications. The car importer…
Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Dave Zeitoun, Or Lebaardt This article is a review of a claim submitted before the Herzliya Magistrate Court by a multimedia importer against the Customs following a dispute regarding the HS classification of Kinect motion sensing input devices and wireless…
Adv. Gill Nadel Our firm recently succeeded in achieving a landmark decision in a case in which we are representing a car importer. The main dispute in the case is whether the value of a spare tire should be included in the valuation of imported vehicles, when the spare tire is…
Adv. Gill Nadel, Adv. Dave Zeitoun, Adv. Chen Avner Background: The following article will review the question of the tort liability and the duty of care of the State towards taxpayers. The matter was raised as part of deliberations regarding whether a deficit notice to a…
Recently we represented before the Magistrates Court of Rehovot an Israeli importer who was refused to be provided with a delivery order in spite of having the original house bill of lading issued by a Chinese forwarder, who following a dispute with his Israeli agent, declined…
Our office represented an importer who was issued a demand for a payment of customs duty debt of another company as a result of an alleged free of charge transfer of assets from the other company to the importer. The District Court of Jerusalem ruled in favour of our client and…
הנחיות הגעה: כתובתנו: רחוב הערבה 3, בניין יוניטרוניקס, קריית שדה התעופה למגיעים מכביש 1 (ירושלים – ת"א)- יש לרדת לכביש 40 במחלף פתח תקווה. בצומת אל על יש לפנות ימינה, קריית שדה התעופה תמצא משמאלכם, יש להמשיך ישר ולפנות שמאלה ברמזור הראשון. למגיעים מצומת הטייסים (על כביש 40…
Born 1978, Israel.Graduate of the law faculty of Bar-Ilan University.Member of the Israel Bar, 2002. Area of practice: Import Export Law, Import Taxes, International Forwarding, Intellectual Property Law & Commercial Litigation.
Recently Israeli courts issued two judgments in matters related to import taxes in favour of our clients. In the first case the court ordered Israeli Customs to provide an importer with information regarding classification of certain goods, including competitors'. The other case…
קישור לכתבה על סימן מסחר שלא התקבל לרישום25/4/07 להלן נסקור החלטה מעניינת של ה"פוסק בקנין רוחני", שבמשרד המשפטים, שדנה בהתנגדות לרישום סימן מסחר. מאת עו"ד גיל נדל, צפריר בר אילן חברת אוניפארם, המייצרת ומשווקת תרופות גנריות לטיפול במחלות מטבוליזם (חילוף חומרים) ביקשה לרשום על שמה…
***Our office took care of verification of origin documents for Israeliexporters from the Customs authorities in the US, the EU, and Israel.Through our office's services, the importers successfully passed theverification process, and the customs authorities verified the…
The Import Committee recently significantly diminished the penalty levied against a cosmetics and beauty care products importer on a claim of having failed to produce an import license on time. A compromise agreement was closed with the customs authorities to decrease by around…
***The Magistrate's Court of Beit Shemesh recently handed down a decision instructing the Customs Authority to transfer to an import, a client of our office, goods that were seized by the Customs Authority (in the framework of “small shipment protocol”) claiming that they…
***Adv. Gil Nadel spoke at the Import Institute during a seminar on the topic: “The US- exemptions from duties, origins rules, and dealing with the Customs Authority in import and export.” The seminar was accompanied by surveys of the instructions in the law, analysis of sample…
Gill Nadel, Adv. Legal disagreements relating to international forwarding, by their nature, involve sides found in different countries, who speak different languages, with different legal systems. Given such a situation, it is obvious that in some if not all cases, an Israeli…
Gill Nadel, Adv. In two different paragraphs the Customs Tariff Code gives significant "procedural leniencies" to the state in the field of burdens of proof. Paragraph 229 to the Code states that when "a question arises in a customs accusation, or in a procedure under paragraph…
Gil Nadel, Adv. The decision of Magistrate's Court of Tel Aviv on the Menora v. Amit and Overseas case sharply presents the classic distinction (in tort damages actions) between the liability of the damager and the sum of the damages to which the injured is entitled and the…
Gill Nadel, Adv. As we know, whenthe platform fee is charged according to the value of the goods (around one percent), calculation of the value is done by the Customs Authority in accordance with the direction of the Customs Code (see paragraph 235(a) to thePort Ordinances,…
Gill NadelAdv The international trade transaction necessarily involves unique dangers due to the geographical and cultural divide between the sides to the transaction. The current economic crisis requires special precautions, as well as re-examining the accompanying costs. Adv.…
Adv. Gill Nadel, Moran Shmilovich A court paper is any document that can be transmitted or served, including a verdict, a notice, a demand, or a summons to a litigant or witness. Serving court papers properly has particular importance, and the judicialpower of the court depends…
Gil Nadel, Adv. For the first time, the state has involved the Supreme Court that she is willing to set up a database of customs classifications and import legalities. This is to enable importers and customs agents to receive available and updated information. This notice to the…
