Must complete customs clearance within 2 hours

This new content was proposed by the Ministry of Finance in the Draft Law on Customs Amendments with the aim of further simplifying customs administrative procedures, as current laws do not have specific regulations on the time limit for checking customs dossiers.

Actual goods inspection time must be completed
at least within 8 working hours

Physical inspection of goods within 8 working hours

The draft also stipulates reducing the time for physical inspection of goods to 8 working hours from the time the customs declarant presents the goods to the customs authority. (The current regulation is 8 hours for export and import shipments applying the form of physical inspection of part of the goods based on probability. In case of physical inspection of the entire goods, this period is 2 working days).

In case the goods are subject to specialized inspection, the actual inspection period of the goods is calculated from the time the goods standard inspection results are available according to regulations.

In case the shipment has a large quantity, many types or the inspection is complicated, the draft allows: The Head of the Customs agency where customs procedures are carried out decides to extend the time for actual inspection of goods, but not more than 2 working days.

In addition, to facilitate customs clearance of goods, the Draft also requires customs authorities to inspect and clear goods, people and vehicles exiting and entering the country outside working hours, on holidays and days off as prescribed by law based on the request of customs declarants.

Simplify customs documentation

The Ministry of Finance added that the current Customs Law stipulates that customs dossiers must include five types of documents, including: customs declaration, commercial invoice, goods purchase and sale contract, export and import license (if any) and other documents as prescribed by law. However, in reality, only in some necessary cases does the Customs authority need all of the above documents.

Therefore, to reduce unnecessary documents for individuals and organizations when carrying out customs procedures, the draft Customs Law has provided general and unified regulations on customs documents in the direction that only the customs declaration is a mandatory document.

At the same time, the Draft also stipulates specific cases according to the requirements of relevant laws (Law on Commerce, Law on Environmental Protection, etc.), customs dossiers must include commercial invoices; transportation documents; goods purchase and sale contracts; export and import licenses or documents notifying the results of inspection or exemption from specialized inspection according to the provisions of law...

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According to (Chinhphu.vn) – LT