IMPORT EXPORT

Import Export : information, procedure, terminology, directory.

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Content:

Approved Exporter

A person who has been authorized to use the local clearance procedure for exports, i.e. he places the goods under the procedure by entry in his records and notifies the customs authorities of the removal of the goods from his premises in the manner specified in the authorization.

Authorized consignee

A person who has been authorized to receive at his premises or at any other specified place goods under a transit procedure without presenting them and the transit declaration at the office of destination.

Combined nomenclature (CN)

A systematic list of goods descriptions based on the Harmonized System.

Customs controls

Acts performed by the customs authorities with a view to ensuring that the customs rules and other applicable trade provisions are observed, such as examining goods, documents or accounts, or carrying out inquiries.

Customs procedures with economic impact

The following customs procedures require an authorization and in some situations an evaluation of their economic impact (Art. 84 (1) (b) CC):

customs warehousing,
inward processing,
processing under customs control,
temporary importation,
outward processing.

Customs value

The value of goods established according to the customs rules for the levying of ad-valorem duties.

Customs Debtor

Any person liable for payment of a customs debt.

Declarant

The person making the customs declaration in his own name or the person in whose name a customs declaration is made.

Drawback

One of the two variants of the inward processing procedure under which the import duties are paid at release for free circulation and refunded when the processed products or the goods in the unaltered state are re-exported. Many free-trade agreements don't allow drawback if a preferential proof of origin is issued.

Export

The customs procedure for taking goods out of the customs territory in order to ensure compliance with export restrictions.

Exporter

The person on whose behalf the export declaration is made and who is the owner of the goods or has a similar right of disposal over them. Under other Regulations it is the person who is partner of the export contract, the holder of an export license or who is entitled to export refunds.

Guaranteeing association

A company or organization authorized by Customs.

Import duties

Customs duties payable on importation and tariff quotas, preferential arrangements, anti-dumping, countervailing, safeguard and retaliatory duties, as well as import charges laid down under the common agricultural policy and specific arrangements for processed agricultural products.

Import goods

Goods placed under a suspense procedure and goods that have been released for free circulation under the inward processing drawback system.

Inward processing

A procedure allowing the import of goods for the purposes of processing and re-exporting them.

Loading list

An administrative or commercial document that may be used in place of a SAD-BIS when more than one item is being carried under transit.

Manifest

For maritime and air transport, the document listing the cargo on board the means of transport. The document may be used for customs purposes, subject to prior authorization, when it contains the necessary particulars, in particular with regard to the customs status of the goods and their identification.

Origin of goods

Origin is the "economic" nationality of goods in international trade. It is necessary to determine the origin of goods as any duties and/or equivalent charges or any customs restrictions or obligations applicable to them will depend on their origin.

Principal

The person who places goods under the transit procedure, even where this is done by an authorized representative.

Processing under customs control

A procedure allowing goods to be imported under suspension of import duties and commercial policy measures for the purposes of:

processing.
subsequent release for free circulation at a more favorable import duty.

Proof of origin

Proof that the goods fulfill the origin requirements laid down. ( invoice declaration)

Re-exportation

Customs treatment of goods that are taken out of the customs territory.

Import Export Commodity HS Codes

01-05 Animal & Animal Products
06-15 Vegetable Products
16-24 Foodstuffs
25-27 Mineral Products
28-38 Chemicals & Allied Industries
39-40 Plastics / Rubbers
41-43 Raw Hides, Skins, Leather, & Furs
44-49 Wood & Wood Products
50-63 Textiles
64-67 Footwear / Headgear
68-71 Stone / Glass
72-83 Metals
84-85 Machinery / Electrical
86-89 Transportation
90-97 Miscellaneous
98-99 Service