What is a customs broker? What is the main job?

Customs declarers must have a certain level of knowledge and practical business ability, be familiar with laws, foreign trade and commodity knowledge related to the import and export of goods, be proficient in customs laws, regulations and rules, and have the skills to handle customs declaration business. Therefore, customs declarers also have to pass the exam to qualify.

What is a novice navigation declarant? What is the main job?

Customs declaration is one of the necessary links to fulfill the customs entry and exit procedures. Customs declaration refers to the process of goods, means of transport and articles entering and leaving the country, and handling the entry and exit formalities and related customs affairs in the name of the enterprise, such as declaration, cooperation with customs inspection, payment of taxes and fees, delivery or loading.

A declarant refers to a person who has obtained the qualification of a declarant according to law, registered in the customs and handled the customs declaration of import and export goods. Customs declarers, like accountants and auditors, are personnel who provide professional intellectual services for the society.

Customs declarers are neither freelancers nor customs civil servants. Customs declarers can only be employed by consignors or customs declaration enterprises registered in customs according to law to handle customs declaration business on behalf of enterprises. China's customs law prohibits customs declarers from illegally accepting the entrustment of others to engage in customs declaration business.

Due to the complexity of customs declaration procedures for import and export goods, customs declarers must have a certain level of knowledge, professional knowledge and business ability, be familiar with laws, taxation, foreign trade and commodity knowledge, be proficient in customs laws, regulations and rules, and master the skills of handling customs procedures.

1. What is the job of a customs broker?

Generally speaking, the work of customs declarers is to handle customs affairs such as customs declaration and tax payment on behalf of enterprises.

All means of transportation (ships, cars, planes, etc.). ), inbound and outbound goods and articles (personal articles delivered or entering or leaving the country) are subject to the supervision of China Customs. Customs generally carries out supervision through filing, examination, inspection, release and follow-up management. In addition, the customs shall implement or supervise the implementation of foreign trade management systems of other countries for inbound and outbound means of transport, goods and articles. 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 declarant is to judge what procedures a certain kind of goods need to go through according to national laws, regulations and customs procedures, prepare relevant documents, declare to the customs as required, and at the same time, cooperate with the customs inspection and pay relevant taxes and fees. In some enterprises, in addition to customs declaration, customs declarers also go through the formalities of commodity inspection and quarantine at the Commodity Inspection Bureau, foreign exchange verification at the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, and corresponding examination and approval procedures at the foreign trade and economic cooperation departments.

Second, how can I be a customs broker?

As can be seen from the above introduction, the work of customs declarers needs to implement the management systems of many countries, relevant customs rules and regulations and strict declaration procedures. This requires customs declarers to have certain knowledge of international trade and customs declaration, and also to master customs declaration professional skills. In other words, customs declaration is a comprehensive intellectual labor with wide knowledge, strong skills and rich practical experience. Therefore, People's Republic of China (PRC) and China Customs have established the entry system for customs declarers, that is, customs declarers need to obtain professional qualifications before they can work as customs declarers. To this end, Article 11 of China's Customs Law stipulates: "Persons who have not obtained customs declaration qualifications according to law shall not engage in customs declaration business." The qualification system for engaging in the work of customs declarers has been clarified in legal form. The way to obtain the professional qualification of customs declarers is to obtain the qualification certificate of customs declarers through the national unified examination of customs declarers' qualifications organized by the General Administration of Customs. In addition, obtaining the qualification certificate of customs broker is only a necessary condition for engaging in the work of customs broker. Customs declarers are not freelancers, but serve enterprises. A customs declarant must also be employed by an enterprise and registered in a customs office engaged in customs declaration, in order to obtain the certificate of customs declarant.

3. What kind of enterprises do customs declarers usually work in?

People are used to dividing the enterprises where customs declarers work into self-operated customs declaration enterprises, agent customs declaration enterprises and professional customs declaration enterprises. A self-operated enterprise refers to an enterprise that engages in foreign trade business activities with the approval of the foreign trade department or its authorized department, that is, an enterprise with the right to operate import and export. These enterprises are trade, production and storage. Trade types are mainly some import and export trading companies, import and export companies and so on. Production enterprises generally include foreign-funded enterprises and domestic production enterprises with large import and export business. Their import and export business mainly imports goods for their own use and exports their own products. Warehouse enterprises are mainly engaged in bonded areas, bonded warehouses and other enterprises. Generally speaking, a customs agent refers to an enterprise engaged in international freight forwarding and international means of transport, and entrusted to handle customs affairs such as import and export goods and international means of transport declaration and tax payment. Including foreign trade transportation companies, ocean shipping agents, cargo transportation agents, etc. A professional customs declaration enterprise refers to an enterprise approved by the customs to handle customs affairs such as customs declaration and tax payment for import and export goods on behalf of consignors and consignors. These enterprises are generally called customs brokers and customs declaration companies. This kind of enterprises generally have a large amount of customs declaration, many kinds of customs declaration goods, and their work is more professional.

Four, the level of treatment of customs declarers

Customs declarers have different working areas, different enterprises and different customs declaration experience, and the treatment gap is very large. Generally from 700, 800 yuan to 5000, 6000 yuan. High-paid customs declarers mainly exist in developed foreign trade areas and have many years of rich customs declaration experience. For newcomers who have just obtained the customs broker's certificate, the local salary is generally the average level, especially when a new batch of customs brokers have just obtained the customs broker's certificate and concentrated on finding jobs, some recruitment units will reduce their treatment and improve their recruitment conditions. However, the salary increase can be expected. Generally, newcomers will get a great salary increase after they have worked for a period of time and gained certain experience and the ability to work independently. In recent years, experienced customs declarers are always in short supply in some areas.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) prospect of customs declarant.

China's economic level is still in the development stage in the world, and there is still a lot of room for growth in international trade. This growth space is also the demand space of customs declarers (not necessarily the year-on-year growth). In recent years, the General Administration of Customs has been controlling the growth rate of qualified customs declarers (basically 1 1000 or 2000 per year), striving to ensure demand and orderly competition. For individual customs declarers, with China's entry into WTO and the improvement of laws and regulations, the international trade order is more standardized, and the quality requirements for customs declarers are gradually improved. It is precisely because the quality of customs declarers still has a lot of room for improvement, and it also creates room for improvement for the treatment of customs declarers. Therefore, if customs declarers can improve themselves in the breadth and depth of knowledge and skills, their career development prospects are very broad.

What is the job of a customs broker? What is the job of a customs broker?

One is to do on-site customs declaration at the customs declaration company. The certified salary is about 1800-2500, and the unlicensed salary rarely exceeds 2000.

One is to do OP in a freight forwarding company, and the experienced OP salary is between 2500 and 3500.

One is enterprise customs clearance. At present, enterprises generally do not declare their own customs, so the customs declarers in enterprises are also responsible for manual verification, verification by foreign exchange bureaus, contact and booking positions, and so on. Salary 1500-3000. European and American companies have higher wages. Japanese capital is in the middle level, but the degree of pay compression is relatively high. Taiwan-funded wages are relatively low.

VI. Customs declaration treatment:

Customs declarers have different working areas, different enterprises and different customs declaration experience, and the treatment gap is very large. Usually from 700, 800 yuan to 5000, 6000 yuan. High-paid customs declarers mainly live in developed foreign trade areas and have many years of rich customs declaration experience. For newcomers who have just obtained the customs declaration certificate, it is usually the average level of local wages, especially when a new group of customs declaration officers have just obtained the customs declaration certificate and concentrated on finding jobs, some recruitment units will reduce their treatment and improve their recruitment conditions. However, the salary increase can be expected. Usually, after working for a period of time, newcomers have some experience and the ability to work independently, and their wages will be greatly improved. In recent years, some areas are short of experienced customs declarers.

Seven, the employment prospects of customs declarers:

In recent years, China's economy has become increasingly closely linked with the global economy. Especially after joining the WTO for more than ten years, and the recent acceleration of China's "going out", China's import and export trade volume has been on the rise. According to statistics, from 2004 to now, China's total trade import and export volume has been ranked among the top three in the world. According to the data of the General Administration of Customs in 2008, the foreign trade and customs revenue of ports in the Yangtze River Delta region have accounted for 40% of the country. According to the recent data of China Customs Association and General Administration of Customs, the number of domestic enterprises with foreign trade import and export rights will reach 360,000 within five years, which is twice the number of foreign trade enterprises at present, and the development of foreign trade is unstoppable.

Article 11 of China's Customs Law stipulates: "Persons who have not obtained the qualification for customs declaration according to law shall not engage in customs declaration business." The law defines the qualification system for engaging in customs declaration. The form of obtaining the professional qualification of customs declarers is to pass the national unified examination for the qualification of customs declarers organized by the General Administration of Customs and obtain the qualification certificate of customs declarers. Obtaining the qualification certificate of customs declaration is only a necessary condition for engaging in the work of customs declaration. Customs declarers are not freelancers, but serve enterprises. A declarant must be employed by an enterprise and registered with the customs engaged in customs declaration to obtain the certificate of declarant.

China's economic level is still in the development stage in the world, and there is still a lot of room for growth in international trade. This growth space is also the demand space of customs declarers (not necessarily the year-on-year growth). In recent years, the General Administration of Customs has been tracking the growth rate of qualified customs declarers (basically 1 1000 or 2000 per year), striving to ensure demand and orderly competition. For individual customs declarers, with China's entry into wto and the improvement of laws and regulations, the international trade order is more standardized, and the quality requirements for customs declarers are gradually improved. It is precisely because the quality of customs declarers still has a lot of room for improvement, and it also creates room for improvement for the treatment of customs declarers. Therefore, if customs declarers can continuously improve the breadth and depth of their knowledge and skills, their career development prospects are very broad.