Customs Clearance: Customs Clearance, commonly known as customs clearance, means that imported goods, export goods and transshipment goods must be declared to the customs when entering a country's customs border or border, go through various procedures stipulated by the customs, and fulfill various laws and regulations. Only after fulfilling various obligations and going through customs declaration, inspection, taxation, release and other procedures, the goods can be released, and the owner or the declarant can pick up the goods. Similarly, various means of transport carrying import and export goods entering or leaving the country or transshipment also need to declare to the customs, go through customs formalities, and obtain the permission of the customs. During customs clearance, whether imported, exported or transshipped, the goods are under customs supervision and are not allowed to circulate freely.
Customs clearance is a common spoken term in the freight forwarding industry. Here, it mainly refers to the general term for a series of specific operations such as customs declaration, inspection declaration, customs declaration documents, transportation, and delivery related to import.
Customs declaration: Customs declaration is one of the necessary links to perform customs entry and exit procedures. It refers to the process in which the person in charge of the inbound and outbound means of transport, the consignee and consignor of the goods and articles or their agents, make declarations and go through relevant formalities in accordance with the law when passing through the customs supervision port.
The objects involved in customs declaration can be divided into two categories: means of transport in and out of the country, goods and articles. Due to their different nature, their customs declaration procedures are different. Transportation vehicles such as ships and aircrafts should usually be signed by the captain and captain of the captain and the captain of the arrival and departure declarations, and submit the cargo manifest, air freight, sea waybill and other documents to the customs for declaration, as the customs supervision of loading and unloading goods and passengers. in accordance with. For the goods and articles, the consignee and consignor or its agent should fill in the customs declaration form according to the trade nature of the goods or the category of the articles, and attach the relevant statutory documents and commercial and transport documents for customs declaration. If it belongs to bonded goods, it should be declared as "bonded goods". The customs' corresponding matters and supervision measures are different from those of other trade methods.
Customs declaration is a specific action. Generally, the import and export consignee or agent declares specific cargo information to the customs, not only the export customs but also the import. The corresponding agent is the agency customs broker.
Customs Clearance: It is a procedure after the customs release. It sends the released relevant materials and the information of the goods on board to the customs, filing and archiving and subsequent export tax rebates (foreign exchange verification) and other work. Therefore, the customs clearance date refers to the date when the international voyage ships have completed the customs procedures and settled various payables before exporting, and the customs allowed the departure of the port.
Customs clearance: The general term for a series of actions of customs clearance and customs clearance, which refers to the customs regulations that must be completed for import and export goods and transshipment goods, entering and exiting a country's customs border or border. Only after customs declaration, inspection, taxation, release and other procedures can the goods be released. In the processing trade mode, the later verification is completed, and this series of actions is completed before it is called customs clearance.