Customs duties:
Duties levied on imports are mostly of unified percentage of 5% (except for tobacco products (100%) and alcoholic beverages (50%), but there are many exemptions as detailed in the list of goods exempted of unified customs tariff GCC States..
The commercial practices in Fujairah customs are in line with the regular international standards. As a developed market, full technical specifications should be provided along with the price of goods, insurance, shipping, UAE prices and Middle East references. The goods can be supplied to Fujairah only by importers who hold a valid commercial license. .
The value of goods as indicated on the original invoice is taken as basis for determining the payable customs duties, but in case of suspicion, the customs officers can reassess the goods and use the adjusted value as basis to calculate the payable customs duties.
List of Customs Services duties (Customs Services type, duties in AED):
Serial |
Customs Services Type |
Duty
|
1 |
Issuing customs card for modes of transport and machinery |
30 |
2 |
Customs Card amendment request by the client for every mistake |
10 |
3 |
Replacement of a document or any official customs issued document |
100 |
4 |
Re-export declaration |
100 |
5 |
Exempted goods import declaration (non-dutiable) over land and sea. |
80 |
6 |
Unexempted goods import declaration (dutiable) |
70 |
7 |
Export and temporary export declaration |
100 |
8 |
Transit declaration |
50 |
9 |
Statistical declaration |
50 |
10 |
Loaded Dhow manifest |
20 |
11 |
Importer/ exporter code (companies) |
100 |
12 |
Fees of renewing Importer code |
25 |
13 |
HS Code |
25 |
14 |
Reissuing of outbounding loaded Dhow manifest |
25 |
15 |
Couriers exempted cargoes import declaration |
50 |
16 |
Couriers dutiable cargoes import declaration |
40 |
17 |
Exempted air cargoes import declaration |
30 |
18 |
Postal import/export declaration |
30 |
19 |
Customs exit/entry certificate |
20 |
20 |
Customs exit/entry certificate issuance |
10 |
21 |
Incorporation of a company/issue of trade license for clearing, shipping and forwarding companies |
700 |
22 |
License renewal |
700 |
23 |
Opening new branch |
700 |
24 |
Addition of new partner |
250 |
25 |
Addition of new activity |
250 |
26 |
Issue of broker annual card |
150 |
27 |
Renewal of customs representative card per month – 50 (delay fine) |
50 |
28 |
Industrial products exemption charges |
100 |
29 |
Duplicate certificate |
20 |
30 |
Conformity of goods upon client request written (inside customs zone) |
150 |
31 |
Customs seal charges |
20 |
32 |
Borders post clearing service charges (land) (non-preferential road charges) |
150 |
33 |
Deposit refund charges |
50 |
34 |
Original documents shortage deposit charges |
1000 |
35 |
Letter permitting Dhow entering other seaports in the country |
50 |
36 |
Returned cheque fine |
500 |
37 |
Cancellation of customs declaration charges |
25 |
38 |
Entry/exit gat pass permit |
20 |
39 |
Transit truck monitoring fees |
The value of the fee is determined by internal decision of the local customs administration. The fee shall not be less than 300 AED and do not exceed 1000 AED per truck. The load of one mission shall not exceed three trucks. |
40 |
Issue of temporary custom plate |
20 |
41 |
Replacement of damaged document |
100 |
42 |
Custom declaration amendment application |
25 |
43 |
Inspection outside the customs zone (at client’s request) |
The value of the fee shall be determined by internal decision of the Director of local customs administration and the fees shall not be less than 500 AED, and not more than 1500 AED per truck providing that the load of one mission shall not exceed three trucks. |
44 |
Issuance certificate of arrival for goods (at client’s request) |
100 |
45 |
Application of monitoring commercial agencies (for one time only at the client’s request) |
200 |
46 |
Additional inspection services on agencies |
2000 |
47 |
Urgent follow-up of a complaint concerning the commercial agencies (for one time at client’s request) |
500 |
48 |
Emergency follow-up or complaint concerning the commercial agencies outside the official working hours or outside the customs area (at client’s request) |
1000 |
49 |
Deed of release (at client’s request) |
100 |
48 |
Article (2) |