Imports:
Legal introduction of foreign merchandise for use or consumption in the country.
The requirements of customs regulations and other legislation must be fully complied with: sanitary authorizations, transaction value, payment of taxes, labeling, intellectual property, origin for the application of trade agreements, etc.

Other customs destinations

• Import
• Temporary admission
• Reinstatement.
• Transit.
• Transshipment.
• Redestination.
• Private warehouse.
• Temporary admission for inward processing (private export warehouse).

International purchasing - stages:

1. Contact seller (foreign exporter) - buyer (importer).
2. Language to be used: Incoterm (purchase clauses and payment methods).
3. Shipping, freight forwarding and insurance.
4. Arrival of goods, customs formalities, other entities involved, payment of taxes and withdrawal.

Contact of the foreign seller and the domestic buyer

• Product selection.
• Negotiation of price and method of payment.
• Generation of the Purchase Order.
• Specification of the documentation required by type and class of merchandise (health certificates, certificate of origin to apply tariff reduction, invoice, packing lists, IMO merchandise safety data sheet when applicable, etc.).

Consider the language to be used: Incoterm (purchase clauses and forms of payment).

• Purchase clauses:
  • They delimit the responsibility of the seller and buyer: in the delivery of the goods, risk transfers, in relation to the agreed price, as well as in the contracting of freight and insurance, and the terms under which they are contracted.
• Payment Methods:
  • Various forms of payment are used, depending on the seller-buyer confidence (in the shipment on the one hand and in the payment on the other). These are:
• Documentary credit (letter of credit)
• Collections
• Cash payment (in advance)

Shipping, freight and insurance contracts

The seller (foreign exporter) in accordance with the Incoterm and form of payment, delivers the goods or ships them and contracts freight and insurance according to his agreed obligations.

Arrival of goods

Upon arrival of the merchandise, the customs broker processes the customs clearance for its entry.

In addition, it carries out authorization procedures before other authorities that may be involved in the import, and pays taxes (if the origin corresponds to a country with which Chile has a Free Trade Agreement in force, there will be a rebate on the customs duty; VAT and additional taxes are paid in cash and there is no rebate).

Note: In Chile there is a customs procedure in advance of the arrival of the goods, which is used in a high percentage and is mandatory for dangerous goods (commonly known as IMO).

Contact us:

• Which type of customs destination best suits your operational needs.
• Basic documents required to perform an import.
• If your merchandise is negotiated in a commercial agreement (rebate and requirements, etc.).

Export:
Legal exit of national or nationalized goods for use and consumption abroad.

Stages of an international sales process:

• Sales price agreement and international sale and purchase clause.
• Consult your customer abroad regarding the specific documentary requirements for the country of purchase.

Stages of an export process:

• Delivery of export mandate, commercial invoice and packing list to the customs agency.
• Generation of B/L matrix.
• First DUS shipment.
• Generation of certificates of origin and other certificates depending on the goods to be exported and the destination country.
• Legalization of the DUS.
• Sending the export documentation to the exporter for dispatch to the final customer abroad.

Documentation required for an export:

• Export mandate.
• Commercial invoice.
• Packing list.
• Bill of lading (bill of lading air waybill or CRT).
• Final certificate of insurance (according to sales clause).
• Certificate of origin (depending on destination).

Notes

Note 1: Other types of certificates (e.g. phytosanitary) may be required depending on the commodity to be exported.

Note 2: In order to process the legal export of the goods, the above mentioned documentation must be original.