Understanding Customs: Roles, Functions, and Importance

Customs: It is an agency of a national service provider whose activities are intended to achieve control over national territory regarding foreign goods, national or nationalism, made according to legal regulations.

Importance of Customs

Customs serves a dual purpose:

1. Commensurate resources to the Treasury (finance ministry).
2. Monitor and protect the existing relationship with the laws applying to foreign trade.

Customs Administration

This action aims to facilitate and control entry and exit in the national territory of goods, to international traffic and transportation, and to implement the legal regime to which any merchandise is subjected, as well as professional supervision of real estate interests and fiscal control.

Authorities

The organization controlling the operation of the competent customs regime reports to the President of the Republic, the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Finance, and the Chief of the Customs Administration.

Functions of the Minister

1. Create and delete customs sub-main or alternate characters.
2. Promulgate the customs tariff, fix, and increase taxes such as import, export, or transit duties.
3. Establish large area ports or free warehouses or free zones.

Functions of the Finance Ministry

1. Exercise maximal authority over the officials of the Customs Administration.
2. Organize the proper inspection, control, and stewardship of the Customs Administration.
3. Develop, propose, and adopt rules and other customs regulations regarding customs tariffs, customs value of goods, etc.

Functions of the Chief of Customs Administration

1. Direct and monitor the performance of customs in the country.
2. Plan, execute, organize, and schedule control, inspection, and customs safeguarding.

Customs Taxes

• 50% to the Ministry of Finance
• 50% to customs for their expenses

Scope of Application

Customs: Customs are true barriers that protect the country's trade in products from abroad, so that the national customs policy exercised through customs is a mechanism of projection of the national economy.

Customs Authority

The power of the authorities, jurisdiction to intervene in the property referred to in the Organic Customs Law, authorize or prevent its exercise, the privileges, determine taxes, apply appropriate sanctions, and generally exercise the checks provided by national customs legislation.