What is the meaning of customs declaration and customs clearance?

I. Customs declaration refers to the import and export of goods loaded on board the ship before shipment, to the customs declaration procedures.

1, in accordance with China's customs law: all goods entering and leaving the country, must be through the port, station, international air terminal with customs, and the owner of the goods to the customs declaration, after the customs clearance, the goods can be withdrawn or loaded on board the ship for export.

Two, customs clearance refers to customs clearance, refers to the import and export or transit of goods in and out of a country's customs territory, in accordance with the laws and regulations and the provisions of the formalities that should be fulfilled.

Expanded Information:

p>Political and economic conditions vary from country to country, customs duties also vary, and even in the same country, customs duties have changed in various historical periods. But the following duties are the vast majority of countries customs basically the same:

①Import and export of goods, passenger baggage and postal items, inbound and outbound means of transportation, the implementation of supervision and management, some called customs clearance management, some called to ensure that the goods, goods and legal entry and exit.

② collection of customs duties and taxes. Many countries in addition to customs duties, but also in the import and export links on behalf of domestic taxes and fees, such as value-added tax, excise tax and oil tax. Customs in some countries, but also levied anti-dumping duties, countervailing duties and penalties on imported goods.

③Smuggling investigation. Customs Department of each country to evade supervision, commercial concealment of customs duty evasion behavior to investigate and arrest, especially on the smuggling of prohibited and restricted entry and exit of goods, goods, especially drugs, each country's Customs has increased investigation and seizure efforts. Other parts or individual countries customs have special functions: such as the compilation of foreign merchandise trade statistics, bonded management, coastal patrol vigilance, management of navigation level protection of copyrights and patents, etc. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, some countries in addition to the traditional regulation of tangible trade (physical), but also on the intangible trade (trade in services) to carry out regulation. Many governments have instructed the country's customs to fulfill international export control regimes, i.e., regulatory systems for high-tech products, missile technology products, nuclear-related dual-use products, chemical and biological weapons, conventional weapons, environmentally contaminated substances and toxic wastes, endangered species, cultural artifacts, and so on.

According to the Customs Law of the People's Republic of China*** and the People's Republic of China, there are four functions of the Chinese Customs: supervision, taxation, investigation of smuggling and preparation of the sea.

References:

Customs declaration-Baidu encyclopedia

Customs clearance-Baidu encyclopedia<