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Transit & suspense

documented — grounded in the Suspense Declarations manual (S019), the official warehouse/transit tables (SUS_WH_IN, MAN_TRANSIT_TAB; S014/S015) and S003 boxes 49–53.

Not all goods are cleared for home use on arrival — duty can be suspended while goods are warehoused, moved under control, or temporarily imported. (GOAL §4.5.)

The suspense regimes

Regime What happens Tables
Warehousing Goods stored in a bonded warehouse until later entry ref_warehouse, warehouse_entry, warehouse_exit
Transit Goods moved under customs control between offices transit_declaration
Temporary admission Imported for a limited time, then re-exported temporary_admission

All three lean on guarantee (from Accounting) to secure the suspended duty.

erDiagram
    declaration ||--o| transit_declaration : "transit extension"
    declaration ||--o{ warehouse_entry : "placed in warehouse"
    warehouse_entry ||--o{ warehouse_exit : "removed (write-off)"
    ref_warehouse ||--o{ warehouse_entry : "stored at"
    declaration ||--o| temporary_admission : "TA regime"
    guarantee ||--o{ transit_declaration : "secures"
    guarantee ||--o{ temporary_admission : "secures"

Key details

  • transit_declaration extends a declaration with the principal (box 50), the offices of departure / transit / destination (boxes 51/53), the securing guarantee (box 52), itinerary, seals and a time limit.
  • warehouse_entry / warehouse_exit track goods into and out of a ref_warehouse; the exit is the ex-warehouse write-off.
  • temporary_admission records the time limit and links to the eventual re-export declaration (re_export_declaration_id).

Example — goods currently in a warehouse

SET search_path TO asycuda, public;

SELECT w.code AS warehouse,
       we.entry_date,
       we.packages,
       we.gross_mass
FROM warehouse_entry we
JOIN ref_warehouse w ON w.id = we.warehouse_id
LEFT JOIN warehouse_exit wx ON wx.warehouse_entry_id = we.id
WHERE wx.id IS NULL          -- not yet removed
ORDER BY we.entry_date;

Full columns in the data dictionary.