DECLARERS

DECLARERS

1. CUSTOMS AGENCIES

   • It is the legal entity authorized by the National Tax and Customs Department to provide representation services to importers, exporters or declarants in the customs clearance of goods
   • Customs Representation
     • Any person may be represented before the customs administration by a customs agency and shall state that he is acting in the name of the declarant by means of a customs mandate.
   • Business name
     • Legal persons authorized to practice customs brokerage must include in their business name the expression "customs agency", the trade name and the acronym corresponding to the commercial nature of the company.

2. CUSTOMS DUTIES

   • Authorization and classification of importers, exporters ...
     • 1. Authorization shall be granted in the following cases: -Export authorized. -Authorized economic operator
   • Representation before customs
     • Importers, exporters and foreign trade operators, in order to carry out customs operations and formalities, will act before the customs administration through their legal representatives
   • 1.Direct: Importers, exporters, declarants of a customs regime and foreign trade operators 2. Indirect: Any person who in development of his activity has intervened in a manner indirectly in complying with any formality, procedure or customs operation.

3. DECLARANT

   • Declarant in customs procedures
     • The declarant who acts in his own name, to advance the procedures inherent to a customs regime, must elaborate and subscribe the respective customs declarations.
   • Requirements and obligations of the importer or exporter or declarant.
     • - Legal persons, must be legally represented in the country. - Natural people: must be enrolled in the Single Tax Registry - RUT.
   • scope of responsibility
     • The declarant will respond for the delivery of the documents that must be provided as support of the customs declaration, with the fulfillment of legal requirements, as well as for the authenticity of the same.

4. FOREING TRADE OPERATORS

   • Foreign trade operator is understood as a natural person, legal entity or branch of a foreign company, which participates or intervenes, directly or indirectly, in destinations, regimes, customs operations or in any customs formalities
   • Customs registration.
     • It´s the authorization, for customs purposes, granted to foreign trade operators, to comply with customs formalities, including customs and foreign trade operations.
   • Request for authorization or authorization.
     • For the authorization or habilitation of a foreign trade operator, the interested party must submit an application through the electronic computer services and accredit compliance with the general and specific requirements indicated in this chapter.

5. MEMBERS: Maria Alejandra Gómez, Lina Maria Escobar, Andrey Murillo, Juan Diego Lozano