What are customs and what are their functions?

An Aduana, is a physical space generally located in strategic areas such as cross-border areas, ports, airports and railway terminals. These regulate and control all activities related to the traffic of products, people and capital, whether imported or exported.

An customs It is an office of the gobierno a country located on the border or carefully in ports, airports or train stations. Their function is to control the goods that enter and leave and collect the corresponding taxes and fees.

It is a territorial constituency to enter or leave a country. It is usually inside a port, airport, or transit area. The customs It is responsible for controlling the people and goods that enter and leave a country.

Customs are essential for implementing trade policies, their main functions are:

• Controlling traffic international of people, goods and capital.
• Control, register e instar to the collection of the derechos and taxes required.
• determine a assessment adequate of the derechos and the taxes to be paid.
• Tasks for preparing statistics related to the trade international .
• Instrument de political monetary, (since they contribute greatly to the development of the countries' economies).

According to type de jurisdiction that regulate them and the route they control we can find:

• Maritime customs: They are located in port areas and their function principal It is to control and regulate the income and expenditure that occur Mar.
• Air customs: These are located at international airports. They are responsible for both the verification of the documentation and the situation of passengers when entering or leaving a country as well as the duly regulated control of luggage.
• Land customs: They are located at the physical borders between different countries. In these, the movement of goods is controlled. plunge of people and vehicles of different types, such as cars, motorcycles, vehicles load etc.

According to the function they fulfill at any given moment of the tiempo We can classify customs as follows: crafts:

• From the start: They are responsible for receiving goods that will be declared as consumption. national.
• Of destination: Its function is to to receive goods or products sent by third parties.
• Aduana de plunge frontier: These in particular are not even from issue, nor reception of goods, but those in charge of controlling goods that are still in proceedings in transit to its destination.