"In international logistics and transport, a term often faced and mentioned is "customs clearance at destination port".
Customs clearance is sometimes completed in one or two days, but sometimes it can be extended for ten days, or even half a month to complete, why is this? In order to avoid delays in customs clearance, what are the things to pay attention to?
To figure out the problem of customs clearance, we first need to understand what is the destination port customs clearance.
What is destination customs clearance?
Customs clearance, also known as customs clearance, refers to the import and export or transit goods in and out of a country's customs territory, in accordance with the provisions of the law should be handled. After completing the formalities of customs declaration, inspection, tax collection and release, the inbound goods must fulfil all the entry obligations before the goods can be released, picked up by the logistics company and finally dispatched.
In short, any country's goods into another country, must be in accordance with the provisions of the customs clearance procedures, otherwise, violation of the provisions of the entry of goods will be subject to the other country's legal sanctions. For each country, the purpose of customs clearance is twofold: firstly, to check and see if the goods are legal, and secondly, to collect tariffs in order to maintain the balance of trade between the two countries.
What is the process of customs clearance?
01Exchange of documents
Go to forwarder or shipping company to exchange D/O. (According to the bill of lading in hand to determine where to exchange the bill of lading. H B/L forwarder's bill of lading M B/L shipowner's bill of lading.) Electronic declaration - computer pre-recorded, review the bill of lading, send, contact with the customs office/release.
02 Inspection declaration
After the release of electronic declaration, one of the four copies of the customs declaration to go to the Commodity Inspection Bureau for quotation procedures, out of customs clearance. (If the goods need to be declared for inspection)
03 On-site Handover Order
Customs on-site handover sheet (if the goods need to declare the inspection will have).
04Inspection
Customs according to the goods declared name of the regulatory conditions given to the inspection, such as inspection will be issued inspection notice (such as meeting the customs inspection will be).
05Tax bill
Customs will issue a tax bill for the goods to be declared, so that the enterprise can pay the imported tariffs.
06Release
Customs release.
What are the precautions in the process of customs clearance?
If you do not want the goods to be detained by the customs of the destination country, you must make a declaration of goods according to its customs policy and requirements, including the name of the goods, quantity, weight, declared value of the goods and certified documents corresponding to the special goods.
The main factors affecting customs clearance are: firstly, the information aspect of goods declaration, including the declared value and the inconsistency of declared name will lead to the seizure of goods; in addition, special goods such as children's toys, cosmetics, medical devices, etc., need corresponding certified documents, or the goods will be detained.
What should be done if the goods are detained?
If the goods are detained in the customs of the destination country, you need to understand the reasons for the detention to solve the problem. In practice, the deduction is not only due to incomplete customs declaration, less customs declaration, irregular customs declaration and other reasons.
If the preparatory materials are incomplete and the customs declaration is less, you should make up the materials and pay the tax according to the requirements.
If it is prohibited goods and other prohibited goods, it can only be abandoned and destroyed.
