What is a customs declarer and what are the prospects?

1. What is the job of a customs declarer?

In layman’s terms, the job of a customs declarer is to handle customs affairs such as declaration of import and export goods, payment of taxes and other customs matters with the customs on behalf of the enterprise. All means of transportation (ships, cars, airplanes, etc.), goods, and articles (carried by mail or carried by individuals when entering and leaving the country) entering and exiting the People's Republic of China and the customs territory of the People's Republic of China are subject to the supervision and management of the Chinese Customs. The manner in which the Customs implements supervision Generally, there are filing, document review, inspection, release, follow-up management, etc. In addition, the customs also implements or supervises the implementation of other national foreign trade management systems for transportation vehicles, goods, and items entering and exiting activities, such as the import and export license system, Foreign exchange management system, import and export commodity inspection, quarantine system, cultural relics management system, etc. Different import and export goods need to provide different documents to the customs and perform corresponding procedures in accordance with the corresponding regulations of the customs. The main job of a customs declarer is to determine what procedures are required for certain goods according to national laws and regulations and customs procedures, prepare relevant documents, prepare customs declaration forms as required, and declare to the customs. They must also cooperate with customs inspections and pay relevant taxes. Fee et al. In addition to declaring to the customs, customs declarers in some enterprises are also responsible for handling commodity inspection and quarantine procedures with the Commodity Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, handling foreign exchange verification procedures with the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, and handling corresponding approval procedures with the foreign trade and economic management departments.

2. How to work as a customs declarer

From the above introduction, we can see that the work of a customs declarer requires the implementation of many national management systems, customs-related regulations and strict regulations. Application procedure requirements. This requires customs declarers to have certain knowledge related to international trade and customs declaration expertise, as well as master customs declaration expertise. In other words, customs declaration work is a kind of comprehensive intellectual labor with broad knowledge, strong skills and rich practical experience. Therefore, the People's Republic of China and the Customs of the People's Republic of China have established a professional admission system for customs declarers, that is, customs declarers need to obtain customs declaration professional qualifications before they can work as customs declarers. To this end, Article 11 of my country’s Customs Law stipulates: “Persons who have not obtained customs declaration qualifications in accordance with the law shall not engage in customs declaration business.” The qualification system for engaging in customs declaration work has been clarified in legal form. The way to obtain professional qualifications for customs declaration is to pass the unified national customs declaration qualification examination organized by the General Administration of Customs and obtain the "Customs Declarer Qualification Certificate".

In addition, obtaining the "Customs Declarer Qualification Certificate" is only a prerequisite for working as a customs declarer. The work of a customs declarer is not a freelance job. Customs declarers serve enterprises. Customs declarers must also be employed by a certain enterprise and work in In order to carry out customs declaration work, you must register with the customs office where you are engaged in customs declaration work and obtain a "Customs Declarer Certificate".

3. What kind of companies do customs declarers generally work in?

People are used to dividing the companies where customs declarers work into self-service declaration companies, agency customs declaration companies, and professional customs declaration companies. A self-managed customs declaration enterprise refers to an enterprise that has been approved by the foreign trade department or its authorized department to engage in foreign trade operations, that is, it has the right to operate import and export operations. These enterprises include trading, production, and warehousing types. The trading type mainly includes some import and export trading companies, import and export companies, etc. Production-oriented enterprises generally include foreign-funded enterprises and domestic production-oriented enterprises with large import and export business volumes. Their import and export business mainly involves importing goods for their own use and exporting self-produced products. Warehouse-type enterprises mainly operate bonded areas, bonded warehouses and other enterprises.

A customs declaration agency is generally an enterprise engaged in international cargo transportation agency, international transportation agency and other businesses. It accepts entrustment to handle customs declaration, tax payment and other customs affairs for import and export goods and international transportation vehicles. It includes foreign trade transportation companies, foreign shipping agencies, cargo transportation agencies, etc.

A professional customs declaration enterprise refers to an enterprise approved by the customs that specifically accepts entrustment from consignees and consignees of import and export goods to handle customs declaration, tax payment and other customs affairs for import and export goods. These enterprises are generally called customs brokers, customs brokers, etc. Such enterprises generally have a relatively large customs clearance volume, a wide range of customs clearance goods, and their work is more professional.

IV. The level of remuneration for customs declarers

The remuneration of customs declarers varies greatly depending on the regions they work in, the companies they work in, and their experience in customs declaration work. Generally ranging from 700 or 800 yuan to 5000 or 6000 yuan. Highly paid customs declarers mainly exist in areas with developed foreign trade, and they are customs declarers who have been engaged in customs declaration work for many years and have rich experience. For newcomers who have just obtained the customs declarer certificate, the salary is generally the average level of the local area. Especially when a new batch of customs declarers have just obtained the customs declarer certificate and are looking for jobs at the same time, some recruitment units will reduce the salary and increase the recruitment. condition. However, the improvement in salary can be expected. Generally, newcomers will have a larger salary increase after working for a while and gaining some experience and the ability to work independently. In recent years, experienced customs declarers have been in short supply in some areas.

5. Prospects for customs declarers

Our country’s economic level is still in the development stage in the world, and the volume of international trade still has a lot of room for growth. This growth space is also the demand space for customs declarers (not necessarily year-on-year growth). In recent years, the General Administration of Customs has also been controlling the increase in the number of customs declarers with professional qualifications (basically 11,000 to 2,000 people every year) in an effort to ensure demand and orderly competition.

As for individual customs declarers, with my country's accession to the WTO and the improvement of laws and regulations, the international trade order has become more standardized, and the quality requirements for customs declarers have gradually increased. Precisely because there is still a lot of room for improvement in the quality of customs declarers, there is also room for improvement in the treatment of customs declarers. Therefore, if individual customs declarers can continuously improve the breadth and depth of their knowledge and skills, their career development prospects will be very broad.

The salary gap for customs declarers is relatively large. The wages in developed coastal cities are higher, such as Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, etc. The average salary for entry into the industry is 1,000-1,500. The salary for experienced customs declarers is around 2,000-4,000. More than 5,000 for those with stronger abilities.

Customs declaration is generally divided into three types.

One is to do on-site customs declaration in the customs declaration company.

The other is to do the operation in the freight forwarding company. Contact the customer and the customs declaration company

One is in the enterprise. Nowadays, most enterprises basically do not handle customs declaration by themselves, so the customs declarers in the enterprise are also responsible for manual verification, verification by the foreign exchange bureau, contact for warehouse booking, etc. work.

In general, the customs declarers on site are the hardest working ones. They must be flexible in thinking and know how to maintain a good relationship with the customs.

Customs declarers in freight forwarders (some of whom do not have customs declarer certificates) are caught in the middle. Although they do not need to work as hard as on-site customs declarers, they are under greater psychological pressure

Being a customs declarer in an enterprise is relatively easy. As long as you do what you have to do, call the customs declaration company or freight forwarding company to ask about the status of the goods. Some rights are great