Customs Glossary and Regulations
1. Customs Authority
Customs authority means the sum of powers the Service has to control the entry and exit of goods to and from the national territory and to comply with the laws and regulations governing customs proceedings. Also subject to such power are the people who move across borders, ports and airports, and import and export of services for which the law requires the intervention of Customs.
Furthermore, this authority is exercised in respect of goods and persons entering or leaving areas of special customs.
2. Commodity
Commodity: All movable tangible property, without exception.
- Which is foreign from the outside and whose import has not been legally consummated, even if domestic production or manufacturing, or who have been imported under a condition, it no longer applies.
- A national produced or manufactured in the country with domestic raw materials or nationalized, and nationalized foreign merchandise to be imported legally consummated, that is, when finished processing the commodity tax is available to stakeholders.
3. Import
Import: The legal introduction of foreign goods for use or consumption in the country.
4. Export
Export: Legal exit of national or nationalized goods for use or consumption abroad.
5. Primary Zone
Primary zone: The area of sea or land in which transactions are conducted maritime and land materials mobilization of goods, which, for purposes of jurisdiction, is a customs site and where they must be loaded, unloaded, received or revised goods for its introduction or leaving national territory. The Director shall establish the National Customs and modify the boundaries of the primary zone.
6. Secondary Zone
Secondary zone: The part of the territory and territorial waters that belongs in every Customs in the distribution that makes them the National Director of Customs for the purposes of competition and obligations of each.
7. Special Surveillance Border Perimeter
Special surveillance border perimeter: Part of the secondary zone in which lays special prohibitions and restrictions for the stocks and goods traffic. (Law 19,888 Art. 3 º N 1)
8. Coastwise Trade
Coastwise trade is by sea transport of domestic or nationalized goods, or simple navigation between two points on the coast of the country, even outside its territorial waters but not touching a foreign port.
9. Seaport
The term seaport also encompasses harbors in a lake, where that forms part of the border of the Republic.
10. Re-Export
Re-export is the return of foreign goods brought into the country and not nationalized.
11. Redestination
Redestination is the sending of foreign goods from a customs office to another country for the purpose of immediate importation or for further storage.
12. Transshipment of Goods
Transshipment of goods is direct or indirect transfer from one vehicle to another, or the same in different journey, even its grounding in the same order to continue to their destination and while some delays between their arrival and departure.
13. Customs Compound
Notwithstanding the determination by the National Director of Customs, with the approval of the President of the Republic shall mean a compound under Customs control, not only the offices, warehouses and intended for direct service it and its dependencies, but also the docks, ports and parts of Bay and its annexes, if at sea, and advanced properties and roads enabled, where land.
14. Temporary Admission
Temporary Admission: Admission into the country or the rest of the country of certain goods from abroad or special customs zones, without these cease to be foreign, with a specific purpose and to be subsequently re-exported, imported, or delivered to Customs.
15. Customs Service
Customs: Public service to monitor and control the passage of goods along the coasts, borders and airports of the Republic, to intervene in international traffic for the purpose of collecting taxes on imports, exports and others determined by law and to generate statistics that traffic across borders, without prejudice to any other functions entrusted to the law.
16. Capacity
Capacity: One that is to practice the same performance in a physical examination and review of documents, so it is found the classification of goods and their appraisement, determination of their origin if applicable, and other data necessary for purposes tax and customs control.
17. Customs Agent
Customs Agent: Professional assistant customs service, which license to enable Customs to provide services to third parties as a manager in the clearance of goods.
18. Store Home
Store Home: Local or private premises authorized by the Service for a specified period for storage of goods without payment of duties and taxes on import causing.
19. Supply
Supply: The shipment of national or nationalized goods, ranch, designed to ships or aircraft, domestic or foreign, not engaged in international transport.
20. Customs Tariff
Customs Tariff: Legal standard contained in DFL No. 2 of 1989, the Finance Ministry, which ordered systematically according to the International Harmonized System of Designation and Codification, the goods with the respective charges applicable to them in the destinations of import or export.
21. Cabotage
Cabotage: Transport by sea of national or nationalized goods or simple navigation between two points on the coast of the country, even outside its territorial waters, but not touching the foreign port.
22. Waybill
Waybill: Document that parties to a contract of carriage granted, to establish the existence and terms of the contract, and delivery of goods to the carrier.
23. Certificate of Origin
Certificate of Origin: A document that serves to prove the origin of goods for preferential tariff purposes, not preferential quotas and to implement other measures established by law.
24. Dealership
Dealership: Natural or legal person authorized by law or by the Service to operate storage enclosures.
25. Conductor
Conductor: Person in charge of a vehicle, and fiction, agents or legal representatives of the carrier.
26. Bill of Lading
Bill of Lading: A document that proves the existence of a shipping contract, and proves that the carrier has taken charge or loading the goods and is obliged to deliver against the presentation of that document to a particular person, his order or bearer.
27. Declaration
Declaration: A document in which it enters into a customs destination, which should indicate the class or type of destination concerned.
28. Customs Clearance
Customs clearance: Compliance with customs formalities for export, import or customs for any destination.
29. Customs Warehouse
Customs Warehouse: Location authorized by law or by the Service where goods are stored under their authority until the time of withdrawal for import, export or other customs destination, excluding individual stores.
30. Customs Duties
Customs Duties: Rights established in the Customs Tariff and/or national law, levied on goods entering the country or leaving it. These may include:
a) Ad-Valorem Law: Tax on imported goods and which is fixed in proportion to their customs value.
b) Specific Law: Tax on imported goods at a fixed amount of money, which is determined based on a unit of measure or kilogram, tonne, liter dozen subway maps.
31. Customs Broker
Customs clearance: Customs Agents and the consignor or consignee for despatch licensed.
32. Release of Goods
Release of Goods: Management, administrative and other operations to be performed before the Service in connection with the customs destinations.
33. Destination Customs
Destination Customs: Demonstration of willingness of the owner, consignor or consignee that indicate the customs procedure to be given to goods entering or leaving the country.
34. Business Express Shipments
Business Express Shipments: Referred normally delivery companies, courier or express delivery, are those individuals or legal entities legally established in the country, whose main business is money or the provision of services to third parties, for the expeditious collection, transport, delivery, positioning and maintaining control of documents, printed matter, parcels or other goods throughout the service delivery. (Resolution No. 0928 – 24.01.08)
35. Postal Shipping
Postal Shipping: Shipping of documents and goods through the Post of Canada, made according to international postal conventions.
36. Baggage Travelers
Baggage Travelers: New or used articles carried by the traveler for personal use or for gifts, excluding goods for their value or quantity to suspect marketing, objects of exclusive use for the exercise of professions or trades, used, and, to an amount not to exceed, per adult, 400 units of cigarettes, 500 grams of snuff, pipe, 50 units of cigars and 2,500 cubic centimeters of alcoholic beverages.
37. Physical Exam
Physical Exam: Recognition of material goods by the Service.
38. Air Waybill
Air Waybill: Document attesting to the carriage of goods, the conclusion of a contract, conditions of carriage, receipt of goods by Carrier, weight, volume, packaging, and the number of packages.
39. Courier Guide
Courier Guide: A document stating the appropriation of goods arriving or leaving by this type of release, allowing the courier companies and customs agents as appropriate, the preparation and submission of customs destination documents.
40. Postal Guide
Postal Guide: List of postal effects delivered or received by Business Post.
41. Legalization
Legalization: Act by which the Regional Director, the Administrator or officials to whom they delegate this power, they find that the relevant document has complied with all legal and regulatory procedures, giving their approval and also verified the completeness of the security surrendered, in those statements it is required.
42. List of Passengers and Crew
List of Passengers and Crew: Document to be submitted by the driver or representative of all vehicles entering or leaving the country, the Customs for the place of entry or exit, which contains a list of his passengers and crew.
43. Cargo Manifest
Cargo Manifest: Document signed by the driver or by representatives of the freight company, which contains the complete list of packages of any kind on board the vehicle excluding postal effects and the effects of crew and passengers.
44. Courier Manifest
Courier Manifest: A document must contain the identification of each of the guides Courier carrying a messenger vehicle or international, whether by air or land, through which the goods are presented and delivered to Customs in order to access the system courier dispatch.
45. Foreign Trade
Foreign Trade: The one that comes from abroad and whose import has not been legally consummated, even if domestic production or manufacturing, or who having imported condition, it no longer applies.
46. National Merchandise
National Merchandise: It is produced or manufactured in the country with domestic raw materials or nationalized.
47. Merchandise Nationalized
Merchandise Nationalized: The foreign goods whose import has been accomplished legally, this is where tax compliance is complete, it is freely available to interested parties.
48. Precinct
Precinct: Thread, string, tape or similar articles for use in combination with a seal.
49. Rancho
Rancho: Fuels, lubricants, gear and other goods, including provisions for consumption of passengers and crew required by ships, aircraft and vehicles for international transport and travel status for their own maintenance, upkeep and improvement.
50. Recognition
Recognition: Operation by which the dispatcher with a mandate to dispense or the person concerned, review or inspect the goods in the customs warehouse premises before referring to a customs destination. Because of this recognition can perform operations, repackaging materials division, as also the taking of samples.
51. Redirection
Redirection: Sending foreign goods from a free zone to another, abroad, to warehouses or to a primary zone.
52. Temporary Output
Temporary Output: Output abroad of national or nationalized goods without losing their status as such and return without paying duties and taxes that would be imported under certain conditions.
53. Label
Label: Piece of metal or other suitable material that serves to connect the two ends of a seal, which provide assurance that any violation can be detected.
54. Transit
Transit: Passage of foreign goods through the country when it is part of a total journey begun abroad and must be completed outside its borders.
Also be considered as transit of foreign goods sent abroad which may have been downloaded by mistake or other causes qualified in the primary areas or places authorized, provided that they have left these areas and that their arrival in the country and its subsequent Shipping abroad is by sea or air.
55. Customs Value
Customs Value: The value of transaction, ie the price actually paid or payable for the goods when sold for export to the country of importation adjusted as appropriate.
56. Vehicle
Vehicle: Any means of transporting cargo or passengers.
57. Single Window
Single Window: The system that allows agents to trade electronically provide information to a single public body to comply with all requirements visación or required for the processing of customs destinations, according to the laws and regulations.
58. Free Zone
Free Zone: Area or portion unitary perfectly demarcated territory and close to a port or airport covered by the presumption of extraterritoriality customs.
59. School Zone
School Zone: Part of the national territory and territorial waters, which corresponds to each Customs for the purpose of exercising its jurisdiction.
3. Deadlines
Chapter I: General Standards
3.1. Consecutive Days
The periods referred to this resolution, generally comprise consecutive days, except in the case of statements that exceed the scope of so-called implementing rules referred to the N ° 8 of Article 4 of Organic Law Service, in which case it shall be specific mention of that fact in the present resolution.
3.2. Calculation of Periods
Under the provisions of Article 48 of the Civil Code, the periods of days, months or years that mention will be complete and run until midnight on closing date.
For application of this rule, the periods of days shall be reckoned from the day following its issuance or from the day following the act, fact or situation which it originates, unless the law or regulations provided another thing, in which case it shall be specific mention of that fact in the present resolution.
3.3. Extension of Deadlines
Nonfatal deadlines may be extended if the corresponding application is filed before expiration and with good cause. The sum of the length of extensions may not exceed the original term that lasts.
3.4. Special Terms
In exceptional cases may be granted special terms upon the expiry of a period of extension, but the offender shall be punished as provided in Article 176 of the Customs Ordinance.
3.5. Saturdays and Incompetent Days
The terms that are due in on Saturday or incompetent shall be extended until the next working day.
4. Guarantees
Chapter I: General Standards
4.1. Form of Bail
The destinations, operations and procedures that need to be bond with the Service, and who have established a special form of bail, will be secured by insurance policy or bank guarantee slip.
4.2. Amount of Guarantee
The amount, expressed in dollars of the United States, must correspond to the rights, duties and taxes that would result of importation of the goods, including an internal tax to be levied through customs duties, and those charges which may arise for non-compliance with other requirements of law.
4.3. Extension of Obligation
In case of extension of the obligation being secured, those interested should submit a new warranty for the new authorized period.
4.4. Partial Cancellation
In the case of partial cancellation of the obligation being secured, interested parties may substitute collateral originally rendered by another date that represents the amount of the obligation.
4.5. Delivery of Guarantee
The importer or consignee of the goods, must deliver to the dispatcher, before processing the respective destination statement of the guarantee to pay.
4.6. Antecedent Basis
This document will remain as antecedent basis in the office folder Customs Agent who signed the statement available to the Customs Service for immediate implementation upon a determination that there has been the fact that this is warranties.
4.7. Policyholder or Bank Slip
The policyholder or bank slip must be the consignee of the merchandise upon natural person or legal representative, in the case of a legal person.
4.8. Beneficiary
The Ballot or Security beneficiary will be the “Government of Chile. National Customs Service.”
4.9. Currency
The guarantee will be paid in local currency using the exchange rate prevailing at the date it becomes effective.
4.10. Suspension Arrangement
In cases of suspension arrangement, the Ballot Banking or Insurance Policy must be valid in 30 days than the term of this.
4.11. Comprehensive Guarantees
May be accepted and comprehensive guarantees covering all destinations, issued by the consignee of the goods during a given period, looking at the latest one year.