Customs clearance refers to the goods within the territory of a country, import and export or transit, must follow a variety of laws and regulations of a procedure, another saying is also called customs clearance, goods during customs clearance, by the customs supervision, can not be circulated at will。Cause and effect must have a cause, and since there will be delays in customs clearance, there must be a reason。
So what's the reason？
First, the reason of the goods themselves
(1) Goods are prohibited goods: All countries in the world have prohibited goods, such as drugs, guns, ammunition, weapons, etc。As you are all familiar with, these are banned in countries around the world。Most countries prohibit the entry of animals, plants, meat, and books. The United States bans the entry of traditional Chinese medicine. The United Kingdom bans the entry of milk and meat products. Singapore bans the entry of electronic tobacco。
(2) The goods are brand-name and infringing products: protected by intellectual property rights, the sale of products requires brand license, after these products enter the country, the customs requires to provide brand license certificate, otherwise the customs clearance is delayed, the customs will deduct the goods and directly return them。
The agent or the owner itself
(1) The complete information of the goods is not standardized and incomplete: the agent or the owner itself fills in the data and documents are incomplete, such as the product quantity is incorrect, the product name is randomly written (such as the product itself is a shoe, the declaration name is clothing), the declaration value is inconsistent with the actual value (many sellers have had such a practice。In order for the recipient to pay less or no tax, the value of the goods is low, but if the price is too low, it will attract the attention of customs and cause delays in customs clearance)。If the commercial invoice is incomplete, the sender needs to provide a new complete commercial invoice。
(2) Logistics transportation mode: In order to save freight and earn the freight difference of the recipient, the seller chooses the logistics transportation channel with cheap price and long transportation time. The cheaper the price, the longer the transportation time, the slower the customs processing speed, the easier the goods are lost。
3. Customs
(1) Regular customs inspection: The customs regularly inspects the goods。If your goods are spot-checked, you can only wait and do not need the help of the recipient。Regular inspections are usually completed within 1-3 working days。If customs deems the goods to be all right, it will be released。
(2) Taxation: The customs considers that the declared value of your goods does not match the actual situation, and the recipient needs to go through customs。If your declared value is the same as the value of the goods, but customs thinks it is different, in this case the value of the goods can be used to prove customs clearance。If the declared value of your goods does not match the actual value, the recipient must pay the duty when it is discovered by the customs。
Iv. Recipients
(1) Unwilling to pay taxes: the goods need to pay taxes, the tax is too high or the tax has exceeded the value of the goods itself, the recipient is unwilling to pay high taxes, do not go to tax clearance, the goods are stored in the customs office, such as customs clearance expiration, and then be auctioned or returned by the customs。
(2) The recipient does not have the relevant certificate: for example, the recipient does not have an import license, the recipient cannot provide the necessary declaration certificate, the goods are delayed and cannot be declared。
V. Other factors
(1) Environment: such as customs strikes, port workers strikes, airport workers strikes, logistics staff strikes;Or natural disasters and wars。
(2) Policies: Some countries have slow customs clearance speed, slow customs clearance efficiency, and complex customs clearance procedures, such as Brazil。Or the corresponding national policy requires customs clearance must be how to clear, how to clear。