Partial Exam Flashcards
What is customs ?
+ role
Department within the gvt controlling everything that crosses thé border.
- fiscal/revenue
- trade statistics
- enforcement
- security
- combat illicit activities
- facilitate trade
Role of french customs :
- protection
- economic
- fiscal
Trade without discrimination :
- most favored nation
- national treatment
- freer trade
- predictability
Exceptions to trade without discrimination :
- antidumping
- subsidies and spécial countervalling duties
Instrument of the WCO :
- revised kyoto convention
- HS
- safe frameworks of standards
Levels of Economic intégration :
- free trade : low on tariffs between members
- customs union : common external tarifs , same customs laws
- common market : free mvt of goods, capital, services , persons
- economic union : common market and monetory
- political union : common gvt
5 types of mvts :
National trade Trade with customs union Trade with an excluded territory of customs union Trade with free trade agreement Trade with a third party country
Customs clearance :
Attribution of a customs procedure to goods via à customs déclarations
Customs clearance subject to :
Customs déclaration
Présentation of goods to customs authorities
Customs régulation (physical flow)
Release for free circulation (mise en libre pratique)
Procedure giving the union status to the goods after all import formalities
Release for home use (mise à la consommation)
Procédure allowing the sale of the goods with the union status on the national market for an EU Member - payment of all national taxes
3 pilars of the custom clearance :
Tariff description
Origin
Value
Tariff description is for :
Applicable duties and taxes Applicable legislation (prohibitions, sanitary)
Organisation de l’HS code + compléments :
6 chiffres : HS CODE
+ 2 chiffres : combined nomenclature (external tariff)
+ 2 chiffres : TARIC (community régulations)
+ 4 codes : Additional codes (national or community regulations)
Origine :
Determine the nationality of the goods