In recent years, Vietnam has gained large investment from FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) especially from import/export electronic devices and clothing sectors. As a result, logistics services became more and more diversity and appealing offers for businesses. Among them, customs clearance services is one of the most crucial chains to ensure business’s supply chain remains stable and resilient. But due to the requirement of customs’s precision and strictness protocols, not everyone can handle this process without firm experience.
So, by all means, what are customs clearance services in Vietnam? What are included in customs services and which types of businesses should choose this service? Let’s find out in this article.
Customs clearance services can be explained by showing the process of goods being handled from the factory to the airports/ports and going to other countries.
Before goods can be exported/imported to/from a country, a specified governmental body called customs is authorized to inspect goods in accordance with the country’s laws and regulations for import/export goods, in which process, the owner needs to declare goods’s information with the customs department for verification.
When the customs department receives the owner’s declaration form, the department will conduct specialized operations such as: inspection, supervision, classification and other protocols after clearance with the goal of preventing illegal goods from entering the country.
Customs clearance, in business’s perspective, is the process by which the owner of the goods declares necessary information about the goods and complete tax duties, the customs will verify information and actual state of goods, if the goods are accepted, they can be imported/exported to the destined country.
Filling customs declaration form is the most crucial step to decide whether the goods can be imported/exported or not. Some of the common mistakes with customs declaration forms are:
The common issues that many companies get when conduct customs clearance process are:
For such reasons, companies often choose third party services from local logistics companies to avoid such burdens.
In fact, this process is not easy as it sounds, both experienced and fresh staffs in customs declaration services still get issues when declaring the form, especially when identifying HS code of the goods, for example, HS code of apples can be varied into different versions:
Not to mention that many countries add secondary HS codes for goods to be classified in the country’s trade data. For this reason, the difficulty of declaring goods relies on secondary HS code, the popularity of matched HS codes and some of other elements.
When declaring information, the owner also needs to prepare common required papers:
Before the goods are qualified for customs acceptance, they are classified into 3 main lanes: Green, Yellow and Red.
The step of fulfilling customs declaration procedures only proceeds when the goods are accepted in green lane, for yellow and red lane goods, the customs clearance service provider will handle the rest based on customs’s requirements.
After the goods are accepted, customs declaration services provider will support customers in 2 methods:
ALS is renowned as the leading aviation logistics company in Vietnam with large logistics infrastructure in the main hubs of Northern region. Furthermore, ALS has a close relationship with the customs department in terms of handling international import/export goods.
ALS commits to provide efficient customs declaration, handling customs procedures, goods clearance services with optimized cost.
From our firm experience in providing professional services for international enterprises and forwarders, ALS helps goods circulation flow smoothly and stable in and out of Vietnam.
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