What is the nature of customs?

Customs belongs to the state administrative organs.

Customs is an administrative organ that implements import and export supervision and management according to national laws and administrative regulations. It is responsible for inspecting import and export goods, passengers' luggage and other articles, and its main functions include supervision, taxation, smuggling investigation and compiling customs statistics. If the candidates are recruited through the civil service examination, they are institutions, and if they adopt the way of career preparation, they are prepared for institutions. Customs is an independent unit.

In the course of performing its duties, the customs has the right to inspect, copy, inquire, detain and inspect, that is, the customs has the right to inspect passengers' luggage and articles and copy relevant invoices, contracts, account books and other materials. If you carry illegal goods, the suspect will be detained.

Customs organization

1, first level

The first level is the General Administration of Customs, which has 2 1 departments, including the Customs Department, the Political and Legal Department, the General Office, the Supervision Department and the Anti-smuggling Bureau, as well as a bureau-level institution, such as the Customs Press, Service Center, Information Center and Data Center.

2, the second level

The second level is Guangdong branch, two special Commissioner offices in Tianjin and Shanghai, 465 and 438+0 directly under the customs, and two customs schools; All provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China have customs offices directly under their jurisdiction, including 7 in Guangdong Province and 2 in Fujian, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and Zhejiang. Both Shandong Jinan Customs and Jiangsu Suzhou Customs wanted to be independent, but they didn't. Now it is supervised by Qingdao Customs and Nanjing Customs respectively. The two customs schools are Shanghai College and Qinhuangdao Customs Training School.

3, the third level

The third level is 562 subordinate customs agencies directly under the Customs.