Imports become first-class: the Bill of Entry is the source of landed-cost duty, and duty-free licences carry a tracked export obligation.
Duty Setup and Completeness Check
A Duty Setup workspace maintains the duty heads and their mapping to landed cost types, with a Completeness tab that reports the configuration gaps that would refuse a posting — before anyone meets them at the counter.
Import Consignment and Bill of Entry
An import consignment records the customs document governing a shipment — exchange rate, FOB, freight, insurance, assessable value and the duty assessed per line per duty head — and matches it to the goods receipt lines it covers.
Posting it raises the landed cost sheet, so duty is capitalised onto exactly the materials Customs assessed it against, rather than being spread across the shipment by value. The form shows the arithmetic — FOB to CIF to assessable value, with the rate and loading percentages visible — not just a total.
Customs Duty Payable is kept separate from the landed-cost clearing account, so “assessed but not yet paid” is always exactly the payable balance.
Duty-Free Authorisations and the Export Obligation Ledger
Advance Authorisation, EPCG and similar licences are now held as records with their quantity and value balances, the duty forgone on every import against them, and the export obligation that follows.
- Shipping bills are attached as discharges; quantity, value and value addition must all clear
- A discharge outside the obligation period is kept and flagged, never quietly counted
- Expiry worklist, EODC pack and a contingent-liability view of the duty at risk
- Every policy parameter is stamped on the licence when it is created, so a historical authorisation is never re-judged against today’s rule
Licence balances are reported, never enforced — a stale balance must not strand goods at a port.