Free Circulation: Simplified and Local Clearance Customs Procedures
This declaration type is used to perform the following actions:
- Transmit goods items within simplified and Local Clearance declarations (vZA/AZ).
- Release the goods items into free circulation.
This declaration type can be supplemented at a later stage to contain more details about the declaration and the attached goods items.
This screen can be opened by choosing
ATLAS Import Declaration {CFCREC}
from the Import
menu.
To create a new Simplified Declaration, click
New Declaration (FCFCRC)
.
A newly created declaration will appear in the
ATLAS Import Declaration
screen. Navigate the cursor to the far left of the grid and click the expansion arrow.
Clicking the expansion arrow will make the declaration detail tabs visible. These tabs are used for selecting or manually entering goods items, which will then appear in the
Item Information
tab.Goods Items: Importing from an Existing Invoice
To import goods items from an existing invoice, open the
Header
tab and click Select/Remove Invoice
.
Clicking
Select/Remove Invoice
will open the Select/Remove Invoice
pop-up, which contains a grid with all available invoices that have not yet been used in the system.To select an invoice for use, choose an invoice from the available list, and then click its corresponding
Select
link on the left.If none of the invoices are to be used, click
Close
.
Once one or more invoices have been selected, the
Select
button will be replaced with a Remove
button for the selected invoices.To remove a selected invoice, click
Remove
on the far left.After all the invoices to be included have been selected, click
Close
at the bottom of the pop-up.
Item Information: Manual Entry
To manually create goods items for the declaration, open the
Item Information
tab and click New
.
Clicking
New
will open the Item Information
pop-up, which contains a set of fields to be completed for the new goods item to be saved.If a field has an asterisk (*), the field is required and cannot be omitted. Make all necessary changes.
To save the completed goods item, click
Save
.To drop all changes and return to the “Item Information” tab, click
Cancel
.
Save and Validate
After all required fields (and, if applicable, some or all of the optional fields) have been completed, click
Save and Validate
. Clicking
Save and Validate
will run the entered data through a validation process to determine whether the data adheres to Customs rules and regulations.
If the data contains errors and one or more fields do not adhere to Customs rules, a warning will appear in the
Validation Warnings
tab for each error. The Transmit
button will be disabled until these errors are resolved.Review the warnings to determine where the error is located. Find and resolve the error. Repeat as needed until all errors have been resolved, and then click
Save and Validate
again.If all errors have been resolved, the
Transmit
button will become available.
Sending the Declaration to Customs
To send the declaration to Customs, click
Transmit
.Once
Transmit
is clicked, a notification message appears at the top of the screen to notify you whether or not the message was successfully transmitted.To view the outgoing XML message, click
View file
.
If successful, the declaration status will change from “DRAFT” to “TRANSMITTED” Incoming messages from Customs will be received for the declaration.
For more information, the
Incoming Messages and States of Declarations
section of this User Guide explains in more detail what each incoming message means and how it impacts the state of the declaration.Related Content
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