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Singapore import and export clearance Guide

May 7th, 2010 | Posted by Freight Forwarder

1, declaration of human

Customs formalities by the consignee or his agent handled through the TradeNet system.

As the agent of the consignee for customs clearance procedures of freight forwarders or customs brokers must have been registered in the Singapore Customs, and got through the TradeNet system, customs agents license.

Registered in the freight forwarding and customs broker may engage in the following activities:

- Through the TradeNet system of the Company or on behalf of clients for import, export or transshipment of customs procedures;

- Through the “inter-bank GIRO system” to the Customs for consumption tax or other taxes in the tax declaration procedures;

- Industry customs or other duties for exemptions, or for the consumption tax reduction (in this case, the personal use of individual and family consumption of goods outside the tax and tariff reduction);

- Operating a licensed warehouse or excise warehouse zero.

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2, import

When you import goods to Singapore, you must obtain an import permit through the TradeNet system. Import declaration, the owner or agent to the Customs for examination in the entry permit for the import (or import approval, ATA Carnet), attached the relevant documents (such as invoices, packing lists, Bill of Lading, air waybill, etc.) and in accordance with the applicable import duty and tax rates (or) consumption tax, the goods for customs clearance procedures.

Imports will flow directly into the local consumer goods, tariff and (or) consumption tax should be paid before release of the goods. Regardless of whether the Department of taxpayer imports, imported goods are required to pay customs duties and (or) consumption tax. Consumption tax is calculated based on cost, insurance, freight, customs duties to make. Consumption tax, and (or) customs import declaration should normally be the time to pay. Imports of goods entered the licensed warehouse or a customs surveillance zone, or “zero excise warehouse plans” (ZGS), “the major exporter scheme” (MES) and other imported under the special policy, the time being subject to excise taxes and (or) customs .

Need to import goods customs declaration stages, traders each declaration shall produce for examination the same time permit, the customs nuclear note, signature, until all the goods, customs clearance is completed.

Imports of high-tech products, some high-tech products export of the country may be subject to export controls, the country’s exporters, importers may request Singapore to provide “check proof of delivery import certificate” (ICDV), so from the relevant government departments to obtain export licenses. Importers may apply to the Singapore Customs “Importing the certificate of delivery verification to prove.” In the proof must be under the direct importation of goods imported to Singapore, and not longer go to other countries.

The system through the TradeNet declaration, the freight forwarding or customs declaration form to declare a maximum cover of 50 goods, and may payable duties and duty-free goods into a customs declaration to declare, subject to three conditions: the goods share a copies of bills of lading or air waybill (excluding transhipment), released from the same location, release and then sent to the same place of receipt.

3, export

If you export goods from Singapore to obtain a corresponding “Customs export license”:

- Not subject to export control for duty-free goods by sea or air, should be exported within 3 days after the export license through the TradeNet system replacement;

- For goods subject to export controls or road transport, rail transport of goods, shall apply for export before the export license through the TradeNet system;

- For the “temporary import plan” under the import to Singapore, then re-exported goods, should be re-exported through the TradeNet system before applying for temporary entry of goods re-export license;

- For the “temporary export program” under the export of goods, exports of goods should apply before the export license through the TradeNet system (transported into the country after the required).

If you export, transshipment or transit of goods subject to the “2007 Strategic Goods (Control) Order,” the control, or could be used to create “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD), need to apply through the TradeNet system of “strategic goods export license” .

If you are not the TradeNet system, users can refer to the following steps apply:

1. TradeNet system to specify a declaration by the customs agent (such as the TradeNet system service center, sea freight or air freight) to help you handle the export customs clearance;

2. TradeNet system to your customs agency to provide export invoices, bills of lading (air waybill), so that your export goods declaration;

3. Customs to give export permission from the customs agent your TradeNet system, where an export license.

Exports of goods required to export the following points stand for examination, “Customs export license”:

- Exports from the licensed warehouse duties payable when the goods;

- Export of goods from bonded warehouses;

- Export duties payable, subject to export controls or land transport goods;

- In the “temporary export program” under the export goods; or

- The “temporary import scheme,” the goods imported under the export complex.

The following conditions need to produce for examination and re-exported “Customs transit / removal permit”:

- Multiple export duty payable when the goods; or

- Re-exported duty-free goods, the goods from the customs territory of Singapore, a port of entry, port of exit from another.

If the goods are to impose customs seals, ICA officials should stop auditing of export barriers, and correct before it can release the goods.

Seaborne exports are generally duty-free goods, unless the carriage of cargo vessels over 75 net registered tonnage.

4, transit

Duty-free, not subject to customs supervision and control of goods in the same area of transit, do not provide a “customs transit / removal permit.”

For Express bill of lading (air waybill) transhipment cargo under the following circumstances need to provide “Customs transit / removal permit”:

- Transhipment cargo tariffs payable (but imported by air cargo to and from Changi Airport Customs Free Trade Zone, the bonded re-export, or import of goods by sea container and re-exported in the same container, without any handling operation, domestic delivery, need to provide);

- Transshipment goods duty-free and unregulated, the customs of the delivery of goods; or

- Transhipment of controlled goods.

Local manufacture of goods and excise duty paid imported goods allowed in the export / re-export / transit before temporary storage in customs bonded areas. However, if the goods into Singapore, then and from the Customs territory of the Customs Free Trade Zone, shall pay consumption tax.

Annex: Singapore import and export clearance flow chart