Customs clearance, also known as customs clearance, means that when imported goods, exported goods and transshipment goods enter a country's customs territory or border, they must declare to the customs, go through various formalities stipulated by the customs, and fulfill their obligations stipulated by various laws and regulations; After fulfilling various obligations and going through customs declaration, inspection, tax payment, release and other procedures, the goods can be released and the owner or declarer can pick up the goods. Similarly, all kinds of means of transport carrying import and export goods also need to be declared to the customs, go through customs formalities and get customs permission. In the process of customs clearance, goods, whether imported, exported or transshipped, are under customs supervision and are not allowed to circulate freely.
Customs clearance is a common spoken language in freight forwarding industry, which mainly refers to a series of specific operations related to import and export, such as customs declaration, inspection, customs declaration documents, transportation and delivery.
Customs declaration is an important part of customs clearance, and the whole process of customs clearance includes not only customs declaration, but also procedures such as changing documents and checking and releasing. Therefore, in addition to the customs declaration fee, there will be other fees, such as wood inspection fee, forklift fee, bill change fee, loading and unloading fee, hoisting fee and so on. So there is a difference between customs clearance fee and customs declaration fee, which includes customs declaration fee.