What does clearance mean?
What does clearance of goods mean?
All steps and processes that are carried out in order to release goods from customs are called clearance of goods.
Accordingly, the owner of the goods or his legal representative after preparing and Preparation of documents that are required to be submitted to the customs, the specifics of the goods sent to the warehouse under customs supervision for the purpose of import or export shall be declared to the relevant customs. This declaration is generally made electronically or physically. Now the owner of the goods or his legal representative is obliged to calculate costs such as "commercial profit, customs duties, value added tax and other related costs" in his declaration. p>
The calculations of the declaration for clearance of customs should be:
should be done by considering the purchase value of the goods and the source of the customs tariff and other rules and regulations and facilities provided by the government to the importers and exporters of goods, etc. Any mistakes and errors in this part can result in fines and additional costs for the owner of the goods. In most countries, customs brokers and royalty workers, as experts in this industry, deal with the clearance of goods. So that importers, exporters and producers and independent traders are mainly employers of customs brokers and Iran is no exception to this rule.
Customs clearance process
The customs clearance process is carried out in several stages, which consists of:
arriving the goods at the customs office and receiving the customs warehouse bill
preparation of documents
declaration through the system EPL
Receive the cottage of the declaration and determine the path of the declaration (print the declaration)
Control and evaluate the goods
Receive the required permits such as standard, laboratory, etc. Checkout and payment of customs duties
Stage of loading and delivery of goods from the customs warehouse
Stage of exiting goods