- clearance
means the accomplishment of the customs formalities necessary to allow goods to be exported, to enter for home use or to be placed under another customs procedure;
- clearance for home use
means the customs procedure which provides that imported goods may remain permanently in the customs territory.
- customs control
means the measures applied to ensure compliance with the laws and regulations which the customs are responsible for enforcing;
- duty-free replacement of goods procedure
means the customs procedure which permits the importation, free of import duties and taxes, of goods equivalent (i. e., identical in description, quality and technical characteristics) to those which were in free circulation and which were processed into products previously exported outright;
- examination of postal items
means the physical inspection of goods in postal items by the customs to ascertain their nature, origin, condition, quantity and value;
- export duties and taxes
means customs duties and all other duties, taxes, fees or other charges which are collected on or in connection with the exportation of goods but not including fees and charges which are limited in amount to the approximate cost of services rendered;
- goods declaration
means a statement made in the form prescribed by the customs by which the persons interested indicate the customs procedure to be applied to the goods and furnish the particulars which the customs require to be declared for the application of that procedure;
- goods in free circulation
means goods which may be disposed of without customs restriction;
- import duties and taxes
means customs duties and all other duties, taxes, fees or other charges which are collected on or in connection with the importation of goods but not including fees and charges which are limited in amount to the approximate cost of services rendered;
- letter-post items
means letters, postcards, printed papers, literature for the blind and small packets described as letter-post items in the Acts of the Universal Postal Union currently in force.
- person
means both natural and legal persons, unless the context otherwise requires.
- postal items
means letter-post and postal parcels;
- postal parcels
means items called postal parcels within the meaning of the Acts of the Universal Postal Union currently in force.
- release
means the action by the customs to permit goods undergoing clearance to be placed at the disposal of the persons concerned;
- the Universal Postal Union
means the inter-governmental organization founded in 1874 by the Treaty of Berne as the General Postal Union which, in 1878, was renamed the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and which since 1948 has been a specialized agency of the United Nations (with headquarters in Berne);