Customs inspection refers to the administrative law enforcement behavior of the customs to conduct actual inspection of the goods in accordance with the law after accepting the declaration of the customs declaration unit in order to determine whether the nature, origin, condition, quantity and value of the inbound and outbound goods are consistent with the details filled in on the goods declaration form. Customs inspection can be a thorough inspection or a random inspection.
The inspection operation can be divided into manual inspection and equipment inspection. Customs can determine the specific inspection method based on the situation of the goods and the actual law enforcement needs. Manual inspection includes appearance inspection and unpacking inspection. Appearance inspection refers to the verification of the packaging, transportation marks and appearance of goods whose external features are intuitive and easy to judge the basic properties; unpacking inspection refers to the verification of the actual condition of the goods after taking the goods out of containers, container trucks and other boxes and removing the outer packaging.
After the “single window” was launched, the air and sea ports implemented paperless inspection plan operations. The customs at the import place sent the electronic information of the inspection instruction to the importing enterprise and the port department in real time. After receiving the instruction, the port area arranged the container landing plan. The inspection plan was generally arranged within 5 minutes. There was no need for the customs broker to run errands between the customs and the terminal with paper inspection orders, which greatly shortened the customs clearance time.