Customs
In recent decades, the views on the functions of customs have considerably expanded and now covers three basic issues: taxation, security, and trade facilitation.
Its goals are simplification, harmonization and standardization, so that transactions become easier, faster and more economical than before.The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States has become the cardinal factor in prompting a significant strengthening of the security component of modern customs operations, after which security-oriented control measures for supply chains have been widely implemented for the aims of preventing risk identification.
Customs is part of one of the three basic functions of a government, namely: administration; maintenance of law, order, and justice; and collection of revenue.
The country's customs is obliged to accept the agency's report for the purpose of assessing duties and taxes at the port of entry.
While engaging a pre-shipment inspection agency may appear justified in a country with an inexperienced or inadequate customs establishment, the measure has not been able to plug the loophole and protect revenue.
[11] In most countries, customs procedures for arriving passengers at major international airports, ports and some road crossings are separated into red and green channels.
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States do not officially operate a red and green channel system; however, some airports have adopted this layout.
Passengers arriving from other EU countries go through the blue channel, where they may still be subject to checks for prohibited or restricted goods.
[14][15] In the recent years usage of the blue channel has become limited mostly to flights between the Schengen Area member states of the EU and the remainder of EU member states, while flights which cross the border of neither the customs union nor the Schengen Area are in practice treated as domestic, and therefore, the people travelling on them do not go through customs channels at all.
For customs declarations in the EU and in Switzerland, Norway and Iceland, the "Single Administrative Document" (SAD) is used as a basis.
The CBSA performs searches at Canadian ports of entry and detains illegal immigrants, along with preventing contraband from entering the country.
[20] Travelers are screened for a number of prohibited items including; gold, alcoholic beverages, firearms and soil.
Individuals arriving in the United States may be exempt from duty on a limited amount of purchases, and on goods temporarily imported (such as laptop computers) under the ATA Carnet system.
Failure to comply with customs rules can result in seizure of goods and civil and criminal penalties against involved parties.
All goods entering the United States are subject to inspection by CBP prior to legal entry.
Due to Uruguay's small population and market, many popular and specialty products are unavailable in the regular marketplace, forcing Uruguayans to strategically pool several purchases together and max each one of their free slots.
Main article: Directorate General of Customs and Excise Direktorat Jenderal Bea dan Cukai (abbreviated Bea Cukai or DJBC), works under the Ministry of Finance (Indonesia) and performs various duties relating to the traffic of goods entering or leaving the Customs Area such as the collection of import/export duties, monitoring prohibition and restriction of certain goods, collecting excise and other state levies based on legislation apply.
Several agencies also hold events for the public where they explain their jobs and responsibilities in a transparent manner.
