Export goods to the U.S. trade in a variety of ways, some of the goods of the U.S. import customs clearance costs and taxes paid by the consignor, in this case, the U.S. Customs Clearance House will require Chinese exporters to sign a POA power of attorney before shipment, similar to China's customs clearance need to be used in the customs declaration power of attorney. Customs clearance usually has two kinds of ways: 1, in the name of the U.S. consignee customs clearance that is the U.S. consignee (consignee) to provide POA to the freight forwarder's U.S. agent, but also need to be U.S. consignee's Bond. 2, in the name of the consignor customs clearance that is the consignor to provide POA to the port of embarkation of the forwarder, the forwarding agent and then to the destination port agent, the U.S. agent to help the consignor to deal with the United States for the importer of Customs Note: 1, the above two ways of customs clearance, no matter which one is used, must use the U.S. consignee's tax number (Tax ID, also known as IRS No.) to clear customs. IRS No. (The Internal Revenue Service No.) is the U.S. consignee in the U.S. Internal Revenue Service registered a tax identification number. 2, in the U.S., the U.S. consignee's tax identification number, the U.S. consignee is registered in the U.S. IRS. (The Internal Revenue Service No.) is a tax identification number registered by the U.S. consignee with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). 2.
Customs clearance process under this type of trade mode
01、Customs declaration
After the customs broker receives the notification of the arrival of goods, if at the same time to prepare the documents required by the Customs, you can apply for customs clearance to the Customs within 5 days of the preparation of the arrival or arrival at the inland point. Customs clearance for sea freight will usually be informed within 48 hours of the release or not, and air freight will be informed within 24 hours. In some cases, Customs will decide to inspect the cargo before the ship has even arrived in port. The vast majority of inland points allow for a Pre-Clearance to be made prior to the arrival of the shipment, but the results will only be displayed after the shipment has arrived (i.e. after ARRIVAL IT).
There are two ways of declaring to Customs, either electronically or where Customs need to review paperwork. Either way, we must prepare the required documents and other data information.
2、Preparing documents for customs declaration
(1) Bill of Lading (B/L);
(2) Invoice (Commercial Invoice);
(3) Packing List;
(4) Arrival Notice (Arrival Notice)
(5) If there is wood packaging, fumigation certificate (Fumigation Certificate) or no wood packaging statement (Non Wood Packing Statement).
The name of the consignee on the bill of lading (consignee) needs to be unified with the consignee shown on the last three documents, if it is not consistent, the consignee on the bill of lading must write a letter of transfer of goods (Letter of Transfer), the third party can be cleared. The name, address and telephone number of S/ & C/ are also needed on the invoice and packing list. Some domestic S/ documents are missing these information, will be asked to add.
3、Transferring Customs
If inland customs clearance, we need to do customs transfer we need to provide I.T . #, effective date, place of departure and place of suspension. Inland Customs will use I.T# to control and release.
4, release Goods
(1) Before the ABI system, the shipping company terminal is directly connected to the customs, which means that if the customs in the ABI release, the shipping company and the terminal can see.
After the trial implementation of AMS, large-scale shipping companies such as Evergreen, APL, Maersk, COSCO, CSCL, etc. are also networked AMS, but the terminal does not, so the Customs release in AMS, these shipping companies and NVOCC AMS FILER can be synchronised to see the shipping company to help the terminal system is updated at the same time. Relatively small shipping companies, such as Sinotrans, LYKES, GWS, etc., do not have network AMS, so they can only be released through NVOCC AMS FILER by faxing NVOCC Letter of Guarantee and a copy of Customs Pass (CUSTOMS FORM 3461), and then manually updating the terminal system after receiving the fax from these shipping companies.
(2) Terminal / shipping company release terminal and shipping company is networked, if the freight prepaid, bill of lading and electric release, as long as the customs clearance, the terminal will automatically release the goods to the trucking company. The US customer doesn't need to come to exchange the bill of lading, so the US agent doesn't have any way to help hold the cargo, which is totally different from China. Therefore, if the port of loading does not receive the customer's freight, never do the shipping company's big bill of lading electric release or prepaid freight.
(3) inland release to inland goods, after customs clearance, the shipping company will give a PICK UP #, the agent to get this PICK UP # notify the C /, trucking companies with this number to pick up the goods, this number to wait for: A, the goods arrive at the yard and from the train to get off the container, B, the customs clearance, C, the shipping company release to get, lack of any of them can not be obtained. So, inland shipments need to spend a long time tracking, until C/receives the PICK UP#.
