Definition: Trans-shipment

Category: Customs terminology

The term "trans-shipment" means the customs procedure under which goods are transferred under customs control from the importing means of transport to the exporting means of transport within the area of one customs office which is the office of both importation and exportation... This procedure does not apply to goods which on arrival in the customs territory of a country are already under a customs procedure (such as customs transit) and are transferred from one means of transport to another during the course of that procedure, such transfer being dealt with by the customs under the procedure already in operation. Nor does it ... apply to goods carried by post or in travellers’ baggage (Kyoto Convention, annex E.2, definition (a) and introduction, para. 3). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/SeriesF_87_EN.pdf