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  • ImportEntry of merchandise from abroad in to the national customs territory. It is also considered imports the entering of personal belongings, samples with no commercial value, merchandise in a industrial duty free zone of goods and services by the operator on a temporal or definite matter, without the detriment of the compliance of other customs requirements that may apply. 
  • Importation Process It is initiated in the moment of arrival to the mean of transportation and ends with the authorization of release of the merchandise, previous payment of taxes and sanctions, whenever it may apply. It also ends with the expiring of the terms that authorize its release.
  • International multimode transport Transfer of merchandise on two or more means of transportation, in virtue of a single multimode transport contract, from a place located in a country in which the multimode transit operator takes the merchandise under its custody to another place destined for its delivery.
  • International shipping agent Legally established company listed under the National Direction of Taxes and Customs (DIAN), to exclusively act in the mode of marine transportation, and whose objective includes among others, the following activities: coordinate and organize the shipments, cargo consolidation for import or export and to emit and receive from abroad transport documents particular of their activity.
  • In transit custom Any type of customs in which merchandise circulates with out having finished the import or export figure to be used.