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Understanding The Different Customs Clearance Procedures

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By Ashis Jain


Every business should be aware of the custom clearance procedures in the country in which it operates. Whenever a business is trying to spread their business span across different countries, there is a need of doing import and export transactions and hence the need of customs clearance procedure awareness. There are specific procedures for doing an import transaction and also specific procedures are defined for export transactions as well.

When doing import and export clearance, there are some predefined cost structures defined by each country designated customs department. Generally for all such transactions, unloading fee, declaration form submission fee, examining fee, packing check fee etc will be applicable. There are also other types of costs, which are dependent on the regulatory guidelines and the customs clearance procedures defined by the recipient country.

There are occasions, where your goods will get stuck in the customs clearance department. This is because of the need of extra documents or the improper details furnished in the provided documents. So making sure to provide all the documents with proper and actual values furnished will make a smoother process for the customs clearance of your goods.

Though there are costs involved in customs clearance process as explained above, there are some extra fees, which is known as penalties. These kinds of penalties will not be applicable for all the transactions but wherever there is a violation, then there will be a penalty. For an example, if the receipts of the goods are not properly reported with proper volume and the density, then that will be considered as a violation and you will be charged a penalty for the same. These penalties will result to make you to pay more amounts if you fail to pay within the deadline. This extra amount is a predefined percentage of interest from the customs department.

Faster customs clearance process is the expectation of every business nowadays. Any delays in customs clearance process may result to huge loss the businesses. To address this, customs clearance departments started using electronic applications. For facilitate the entire process, some specific predefined format of applications should be submitted during the customs clearance process.

The most basic document involved in customs clearance process is nothing but the commercial or sales invoice. In a more clear way, the invoice should contain the actual value of the goods, the date of sale, quantity of goods, unit value, total value etc. The terms of delivery and also the terms of payment made will also be validated in the customs clearance process.

In a generic way, helping the customs officer to make the smooth customs clearance process is not only mandatory for the customs department. But it also was mandatory for the person or the business that did that transaction. Providing all the supporting documents and submitting them on time with full clarity and being aware of all the procedures will make the work smoother for the customs officer.

It can be time consuming and frustrating to navigate through the different customs clearance process procedures. This makes it important to hire professionals who can do the work for you. This can in turn help you to save a lot on time while ensuring that you do not make costly mistakes in the process.




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