Definition of customs declaration:
Customs declaration refers to the consignee or consignor of import and export goods, the person in charge of inbound and outbound means of transportation, the owner of inbound and outbound goods or their agents to the Customs and Excise Department for the entry and exit of goods, articles or means of transportation and the related process of Customs affairs, including the declaration of the Customs and Excise Department, the submission and inspection of documents, documents, and acceptance of the Customs and Excise Department supervision and inspection. and inspection, etc. Customs declaration is one of the necessary links to fulfill the customs entry and exit procedures.
Customs declaration object-oriented
Customs declaration of objects involved can be divided into two categories of entry and exit of the means of transportation and goods, goods. Because of the different nature of their customs procedures. Means of transportation, such as ships, aircraft, etc. usually should be signed by the captain, captain arrival, departure declaration, delivery and inspection of cargo manifests, air, sea waybill and other documents to the Customs declaration, as the Customs and Excise Department to load and unloading of goods and passengers up and down the implementation of the basis for supervision. The goods and articles shall be declared by their consignees and consignees or their agents, in accordance with the trade nature of the goods or the category of the goods, by filling in the customs declaration form and attaching the relevant legal documents as well as commercial and transportation documents. If the goods are bonded goods, they should be declared as "bonded goods", and the customs office should deal with the matters and supervision methods differently from those of the goods of other trade modes.
Procedure of customs declaration:
Import
One, the customer provides the arrival notice, original bill of lading or electric discharge bond, and the fee for exchange of bill of lading, THC fee, etc. to our company, and our company will change the bill of lading on behalf of the customer to the affiliated shipping company for import.
Second, the preparation of import customs declaration required documents
1. Necessary documents: goods packing list, invoice, contract in one form, customs clearance, inspection power of attorney each.
2. Imported goods from the European Union, the United States, South Korea, Japan, such as wooden boxes need to provide heat treatment certificates or phytosanitary certificates, such as non-wooden to provide wood-free package.
3. The documents required by the tax rules (such as import licenses, electromechanical certificates, certificates of important industrial products)
4. If there is a tax exemption manual to provide tax exemption certificate manual.
Three, after the import declaration, if the customs audit price needs, the customer needs to provide the relevant price certificate. Such as letters of credit, insurance policies, original invoices, tenders and other documents required by the Customs.
Four, after the customs prints the tax bill, the customer needs to pay the tax in 7 working days. If the deadline is exceeded, Customs will charge a late fee on a daily basis.
Fifth, after the release of customs inspection, the customer needs to pay the customs declaration and inspection fee in time.
The goods must be declared to the Customs within fourteen days after arrival. If the period of time exceeds the Customs and Excise Department to levy a daily late fee (according to the value of the goods five ten thousandths) for more than three months, the Customs and Excise Department will be sold as unclaimed goods.
Export
One, the export declaration enterprise should have the local customs, inspection and quarantine registration, import and export business and inspection qualifications.
Two, export customs declaration required documents:
1. Customers on the arrival of goods in the customs supervision area, 24 hours before loading, ready to declare to the Customs required documents.
2. Necessary documents: a list, invoice, contract, customs declaration authorization, shipping company loading list and other documents.
3. According to the customs tariff rules of the documents. (Such as customs clearance, export license, etc.)
4. Export manuals need to provide manuals for customs clearance.
Documents required for customs clearance:
1. Customers should be prepared three days before the date of customs clearance of all the required documents, to the Inspection and Quarantine Bureau. Provide documents are: list of invoices, contracts, inspection power of attorney, factory inspection sheet, carton packing list and other documents each one.
2. Export goods to the United States, Australia, Canada, the European Union and other packaging for the wooden fumigation or heat treatment needs to be done, the documents provided by the customer are: list, invoice, contract, inspection authorization. If the fumigated products are wooden products, it is also necessary to provide factory inspection list.
3. For fumigation or heat treatment of products, customers should deliver the goods to the designated yard or port area for fumigation two days before customs clearance. (Fumigation time takes 24 hours)
4. Export declaration is formally declared to the Customs. If the export is subject to taxes and fees, taxes and fees should be paid in a timely manner.
5, the end of the customs site review. After the release of goods documents, the owner of the goods should be transported to the customs supervision area for inspection and release within the time specified by the Customs. If inspection is required, the customs broker should promptly contact the Customs and Excise Department for cargo inspection, inspection is required to seal the designated seal according to the shipping company. No need for inspection should be carried out in a timely manner for the release of the actual goods, the loading list according to the customs cut-off time to the port area to load the ship.
6, to be exported goods, the shipping company will export manifest data transmission of customs, customs received the data after customs clearance to customs data, customs declaration line to be customs data clearance, in a timely manner to the Customs and Excise Department to print the tax rebate cancellation joint.
7, the end of export customs clearance.
Definition of international freight forwarding:
International freight forwarding refers to one or more modes of transportation from one country to another, all accompanied by international trade is generally international freight forwarding, but the general international logistics also includes express delivery, international freight forwarding does not include international express delivery. International freight is generally container transportation, and air transportation, rail transportation. There are two main international conventions on international railroad transport: one is the "International Agreement on the Intermodal Transport of Goods by Rail", referred to as "International Freight Forwarding Association"; one is the "Convention on the International Carriage of Goods by Rail", referred to as "International Freight Forwarding Agreement".
International freight forwarding business scope:
Export
Selection of transportation routes, modes and appropriate carriers;
Arrangement of solicitation of goods and booking of cabins for the cargo owner and the selected carrier;
Packaging, measuring and storing of goods;
Application of insurance;
Collection of goods and issuance of relevant documents. Receiving goods and issuing relevant documents;
Clearing customs for export and delivering goods to carriers;
Paying freight charges, collecting original bills of lading and handing them over to consignors;
Arranging for the transshipment of goods;
Notifying the consignee;
Recording of the loss of goods, and assisting the consignee in claiming compensation from the parties liable for the loss of the goods.
Importation
Reporting cargo movement;
Receiving and reviewing freight documents, paying freight and taking delivery;
Importing customs clearance, payment of relevant donations and fees;
Arranging for warehousing during transportation;
Delivering goods cleared for customs clearance to consignee;
Assisting consignee in storing or allocating goods.
In addition, the international freight forwarding company can also act as a non-vessel operating carrier (NVOCC) to undertake multimodal transportation business, that is, as a party to the contract to issue multimodal transport documents, will be entrusted to the actual carrier to carry out the transportation of the various segments.
International Freight Transportation Costs
The costs of international freight transportation are mainly incurred in three places: local, international transportation and destination. In the process of importing goods, due to the destination of the freight forwarder less profit, it is often through the extension of the service and charge a number of fees, such as on behalf of the customs declaration fees, delivery fees, storage fees, exchange of documents and so on. It is best not to go around the trivial costs to negotiate, but to strive to negotiate a package of package costs.
In the international freight business, to first figure out the freight costs of each segment, according to the contract between the two sides of the trade, should be paid by which party. Meet the import business FOB or the other side of the factory delivery price, before fully entrusted to the other party to assist in the process, first try to find their own freight forwarders (mainly in the other city or country has a branch or business cooperation close agent). If you want to entrust the other party to assist in the process, also be sure to ask the other agent's offer in advance.
In the import of freight in the freight to pay, to first check with the business contract.
To be familiar with the business and technical requirements of each link of the entire freight, prepare the relevant documents in advance, to avoid possible late charges (tariffs), late payment (tariffs and carriers) and storage costs (ports and freight forwarders).
Packaging of goods is reasonably considered in light of the impact on freight rates of the weight or volume of the goods.
In addition to the pre-agreed freight rate, when settling with the freight forwarder, carefully check all the documents, especially the volume and weight on the waybill to see if they match the actual ones.
The cost of each shipment should be recorded and analyzed regularly.