This ATR topic intends to provide information on trade-related procedural and documentary requirements that are imposed in each ASEAN Member State in connection with the importation and exportation of goods.
6.1 Consular formalities
Consular formalities are documents or procedures required by some countries before their customs authorities will permit goods produced in other countries to enter their markets, such as special invoices approved by a consul or other official of the importing country.
6.2 Document Requirement relation to the importation, exportation, transit, and transshipment of goods
- Customs Documentation
- Declaration of Import
- Declaration of Export
- Transit, Transshipment & Movement
6.3 Licensing
Licensing consists in a requirement by a country of a formal application for a special permit (i.e., the license) as a prior condition for importing or exporting certain goods. Licensing requirements result in administrative procedures regulating the operation of licensing regimes.
- Licensed Warehouse
- Licensed Manufacturing Warehouse
6.4 Pre-shipment Inspections and other formalities
6.5 Analysis and Inspection Procedure
These measures concern analysis and inspection requirements applied in ASEAN Member States on imported and exported goods.
6.6 Quarantine, Sanitation and Fumigation
This sub-category contains information on quarantine, sanitation and fumigation requirements applied in each AMS on imported goods.
6.7 Special Customs Regimes
6.8 Special Customs Formalities
This sub-category contains information on special customs formalities applied in each ASEAN Member State. Special customs formalities include formalities that are not clearly related to the administration of any measure applied by the given importing country (such as the obligation to submit more detailed product information than normally required on the basis of a customs declaration, the requirement to use specific points of entry, etc.).