Friends who travel by sea and import and export will often encounter these terms: customs interception, interception of orders, interception of ports; Customs clearance, declaration, clearance and clearance; Application for inspection and commodity inspection. These terms seem to make people feel "face blind", are customs clearance and customs clearance the same thing? Is there a difference? What is the difference between customs declaration and inspection? What is the difference between commodity inspection and inspection application? How to distinguish in practice? These can't figure out how to the customer? How do you make customers trust you?
Intercept customs, orders and ports
Closing time
Refers to the deadline to accept the customs clearance information time, the goods must be completed before this time, submit the customs clearance slip (station receipt also known as cargo paper) to the shipping company. Generally, the value is the Closing time.
cut-off
Refers to the time when the shipping company last changes the content of the bill of lading, that is, the often said deadline for replenishing the bill of lading, after which it is generally not free to change. There are also many shipping companies that implement one-time replenishment, after which any changes will be charged. It is usually displayed as SI cutoff.
Close a port
This is the deadline for container collection at the dock. Before that time, containers loaded with goods can enter the dock, after which they can not enter the dock again. Sometimes called cut-off cabinet. Is displayed as CY cutoff or CY closing.
Customs clearance, declaration, cut-off and clearance
Customs clearance
It is also known as customs clearance, which means that imported goods, export goods and transshipment goods must be declared to the customs when entering the customs or border of a country, go through the procedures prescribed by the Customs, and fulfill the obligations stipulated by various laws and regulations; Only after fulfilling the obligations, customs declaration, inspection, taxation, release and other procedures, the goods can be released, the owner or the declarant can take delivery of the goods.
Similarly, various means of transport carrying import and export goods entering and leaving or transshipment, are also required to declare to the Customs, go through customs procedures, and get permission from the Customs. During the customs clearance period, whether imported, exported or transshipped, goods are under customs supervision and are not allowed to circulate freely.
Customs clearance is a commonly used oral term in the freight forwarding industry, which mainly refers to a series of specific operations related to import customs declaration, inspection, customs declaration documents, transportation, delivery and so on.
Customs clearance
customs declaration is one of the necessary steps to fulfill the customs entry and exit procedures. Refers to the person in charge of the inbound and outbound means of transport, the consignee or consignor of goods and articles or their agents, when passing through the customs control port, the process of declaration and relevant formalities according to law.
The objects involved in customs declaration can be divided into two categories: inbound and outbound means of transport and goods and articles. Due to the different nature, its customs clearance procedures are different. Means of transport such as ships, aircraft, etc., should usually be signed by the captain and captain of the arrival and departure declaration, submit the cargo list, air transport, sea waybill and other documents to the customs declaration, as the basis for customs supervision of loading and unloading goods and passengers.
The goods and articles shall be completed by the consignee or consignor or their agent according to the nature of the trade of the goods or the class of the goods, and accompanied by the relevant statutory documents and commercial and transport documents for customs declaration. If it belongs to bonded goods, it should be declared in the way of "bonded goods", and the corresponding items and supervision methods of the customs are different from those of other trade modes.
Customs declaration is a specific action, generally import and export consignor or agent to the customs declaration of specific goods information, not only pointed out that the customs including import. The corresponding agent is the customs agency.
Closing time
As mentioned above, each shipping company will have a customs declaration time period for the loaded goods, usually about 4 days before the ship can be declared, to one or two days before the ship to stop receiving customs release information, which is the cut-off.
Customs clearance
Customs clearance is a procedure after the customs release, the relevant information released and the information that the goods have been shipped to the customs, archiving and subsequent export tax refund (foreign exchange write-off) and other work. Therefore, the customs clearance date refers to the date when the international sailing ship completes the customs formalities and clears the various amounts due before export, and the Customs permits it to leave the port for sailing.
Be cleared by customs
Customs clearance is the general name of a series of actions of customs clearance, customs clearance, refers to the import and export goods and transhipment goods, into and out of a country's customs or border customs procedures must be handled. Only after the customs declaration, inspection, taxation, release and other procedures, the goods can be released, and the late verification of the processing trade mode is completed, and this series of actions is completed before customs clearance.
Is customs clearance different from closure?
Customs clearance means that all customs formalities for import and export goods have been completed, and the customs has granted release and no longer exercises supervision over the goods. The usual cut-off date refers to the latest customs declaration time.
What is the difference between document release and clearance?
Document release refers to the release of the customs declaration, has been released refers to the release of the goods, and has been cleared means that the customs has gone through the clearance procedures for the goods. After customs clearance, the customs will send electronic data to the electronic port after customs clearance, if it is only in the released list, indicating that it has not been cleared, the customs will handle customs clearance procedures for the goods within 5 working days after the export of general goods.
What is the order of declaration/clearance/clearance at the time of export?
When exporting, the documents will be prepared before the customs cut-off date for customs declaration. After the customs cut-off, the goods will be released and shipped out of the port. The ship will take the goods out of the port after completing the customs clearance procedures. Therefore, the customs clearance date is generally later than the customs cut-off date, let alone the customs declaration date. And these series of actions after the completion of the complete customs clearance. Therefore, the chronological order is customs declaration. Cut off the customs Customs clearance Clear.
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