Customs offence definition

Customs offence means any violation or attempted violation of Customs law;

Customs offence means any breach or attempted breach of customs law;

Customs offence means any breach or attempted breach of Customs Laws of a State Party;

Examples of Customs offence in a sentence

• Each Customs administration shall, either on request or on its own initiative, supply all available information, records of evidence or certified copies of documents as well as any other available information related to concluded, planned or ongoing activities, which constitute or appear to constitute a Customs offence in the territories of the other Signatory Parties, together with the necessary information for its interpretation or utilisation.

• The Customs administrations shall, on its own initiative, supply information related to concluded, planned or ongoing transactions, which constitute or appear to constitute a Customs offence.

• When either Customs Administration considers that available information is relevant to serious Customs offence that could involve substantial damage to the economy, public health, public security or any other vital interest of the country of the other Customs Administration, the former Customs Administration shall, if deemed necessary, provide the latter Customs Administration with such information.

• Either Customs Administration shall, on its own initiative or upon request, provide the other Customs Administration with available information regarding the activities that may result in Customs offence in the Customs territory of the country of the latter Customs Administration.

• National legislation shall lay down the penalties applicable to each category of Customs offence that can be dealt with by administrative settlement and shall designate the Customs offices competent to apply them.

More Definitions of Customs offence

Customs offence means any violation or attempted violation of Customs laws;

Customs offence means any breach, or attempted breach, of the provisions of this Act or any other relevant Customs legislation;

Customs offence means any violation or attempted violation of a Customs Law;

Customs offence means: any breach of customs law as defined by the legislation of each Contracting Party as well as any such attempted breach;

Customs offence means any act by which a person deceives or attempts to deceives, the customs and thus evades, or attempts to evade, wholly or partly, the payment of Customs duty and taxes or the application of prohibitions or restrictions laid in this act or obtains, or attempts to obtain, any advantage contrary to this Act or any other laws, thereby committing a customs offence.

Customs offence means any breach or attempted breach of Customs law; 4. "person" shall mean both natural and legal persons, unless the context otherwise; 5. "personal data" shall mean any data concerning an identified or identifiable natural person; 6. “information" shall mean any data, whether or not processed or analysed, and documents, reports, and other communications in any format, including electronic, or certified or authenticated copies thereof; 7. "intelligence" shall mean information which has been processed and / or analyzed to provide an indication relevant to a Customs offence; 8. ''requesting Administration" shall mean the Customs Administration which requests assistance; 9. “requested Administration" shall mean the Customs Administration from which assistance is requested; 10. “official” shall mean any Customs officer or other government functionary designated by a Customs Administration; CHAPER-II Scope of the Agreement Article

Customs offence means any breach or attempted breach of customs law; (m)“customs territory” means the territory in which the customs law of COMESA applies and shall from time to time include such states as may become members of the Customs Union and excludes those which cease to be Members; (n) “Customs Union” means the Customs Union of COMESA established by Article 45 of the Treaty; (o) “days” means working days in any calendar month; (p) “duty” means any duty leviable under the Customs law of COMESA; (q) “duty drawback” means a refund of all or part of any excise or import duty paid in respect of goods confirmed to have been exported or used in a manner or for a purpose prescribed as a condition for granting duty drawback;(r) “excise duty” means a non-discriminative duty imposed by a Member State on locally produced or similar imported goods; (s) “export” with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means to take or cause goods to be taken out of the customs territory; (t) “export promotion” means an undertaking in the facilitation of production or manufacturing for purposes of export; (u) “goods” means all tangible moveable property including, all wares, articles, merchandise, animals, matter, baggage, stores, materials, currency, electricity, gas and includes postal items other than personal correspondence; (v) “import” with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means to bring or cause goods to be brought into the customs territory; (w) “import duties” means customs duties and other charges of equivalent effect levied on goods by reason of their importation; (x) “non-tariff barriers” means laws, regulations, administrative and technical requirements other than tariffs, imposed by a Member State whose effect is to impede trade; (y) “other charges of equivalent effect” means any tax, surtax, levy or charge imposed on imports and not on like locally produced products and does not include fees and similar charges commensurate with the cost of services rendered; (z) “Member States” means the Member States granted membership to COMESA under Article 1 of the Treaty; (aa) “publications” means printed material in hard or soft form; (bb) “refund” means the return or repayment of duties and taxes already collected; (cc) “Regulations” means these Regulations and any annexes to these Regulations; (dd) “remission” means the waiver of duty or refraining from exacting of duty;(ee) “safeguard measures” means emergency actions with respect to increased imports o...