Customs Handling of Import & Export Freight (CHIEF) is the computer system of the United Kingdom's revenue and customs services, HMRC.



Shipping term meaning the seller will cover the cost of freight and insurance of the buyer's order while in transit.



The accomplishment of the Customs formalities necessary to allow goods to enter home use, to be exported or to be placed under another Customs procedure (*).



The Customs procedure which provides that imported goods enter into free circulation in the Customs territory upon the payment of any import duties and taxes chargeable and the accomplishment of all the necessary Customs formalities.



The Combined Tariff and Statistical nomenclatures of the EU, represented by the first 8 digits of the Commodity Code.

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