What is Customs Clearance_ Get The Basics Clear
                     
Every Country in the world has an organization called 
Customs. The job of the Customs is a sovereign act. It is an act 
which denotes the supremacy of the Government of the land. 
It tells people what you can do while coming into the Country 
and what you should do while going out of the Country. 
It is a barrier that has to be crossed, and that process of 
crossing that barrier is called Clearance, so Customs Clearance 
is the process of passing the barrier that is Customs. I can give 
you a small example. When you go to a shopping mall, you 
find that the security at the gate checks your bag, they check 
your body, they check what you are taking inside, and they 
check what you are taking outside.
But what are they checking?
They only check whatever the mall owner wants to permit 
comes inside, and whatever the mall owners do not wish to 
allow remains outside.
 
The security decides the process of checking at some places 
you are frisked.  At some places, you go through a wire at 
some places you open your bag for them to check. Now let us 
replace the mall with India. 
Let us replace the security with Customs and let us replace the 
mall owner with the Ministry of Commerce that is the DGFT 
that is Director General of Foreign Trade. 
As per experts of Custom Clearance in Ahmedabad, it is 
Director General of Foreign Trade (who) decides what can 
come in and what can go out under what condition and in what 
form. It is a job of Customs (to) ensure that only what is 
permitted by the DGFT comes into the Country and goes out of 
the Country in the form in which it has to happen. The process 
of Customs Clearance generally happens through what is 
known as a licensed Customs Broker.
A licensed Customs Broker is an agency that represents active 
working in it and who have passed Customs examination. This 
is called the Regulation-6 exam and those people who have 
passed the exams are authorized to act on behalf of that 
company or firm or on their own to undertake Customs 
Clearance.
As per the experts of Custom Clearance in Ahmedabad, the 
process of Customs Clearance involves filing documents with a 
lot of details. These documents are called the Bill of Entry or 
Shipping Bill under which materials are processed in Customs. 
The cargo which is covered by these documents is also 
handled in Customs and thereafter Customs gives what is 
known as ‘out of Customs charge’. On export cycle, it provides 
what is known as a ‘Let export order.' The process of getting 
out of Customs charge or OCC and on export cycle getting ‘Let 
export order’ or ‘LEO’ indicates that the process of Customs 
Clearance is complete.
Your cargo can move into the Country or can 
move out of the Country. As per the 
Custom Brokers, it implies 
==> Whatever conditions are imposed by the DGFT have been 
fulfilled. 
==> It means that whatever conditions imposed by other 
Government Departments (if any) have been fulfilled.
==> It implies that all processes of Customs have been 
complied with.
So Customs Clearance is a simple process of filing documents 
with Indian Customs ensuring that all the requirements of the 
Government of India being through the Ministry of Commerce 
or other Ministry are fulfilled. All processes of Customs, which 
may include checking of documents, which is called 
assessment or checking of the cargo, which is called 
examination and payment of duty and other charges are all 
completed, and thereafter the cargo is permitted to move into 
the Country or to move out of the Country.