Single window valuation system cargo tracking

Carrier: The person actually transporting goods or responsible for 
the operation and control of the means of transport.
CN22/23: The special declaration forms for postal items as 
described in the Acts of the Universal Postal Union currently in 
force.
Container: A receptacle which is either flat or open or fully or 
partially enclosed for containing goods and suitable for repeated 
use, and specially designed to facilitate the carriage of goods by one 
or more modes of transport.
Customs clearing agent: A person issued with a customs clearing 
agent license, including an employee of a declarant issued, by 
ERCA, with a certificate of professional competence in respect of 
customs clearance.
Customs procedure: All customs operations which carried out 
by the persons concerned and by ERCA in order to comply with 
customs law.

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Customs station: Any place designated as customs office at the 
port of entry or exit of goods, transit routes or customs area for the 
control of import and export goods or for the accomplishment of 
customs formalities and collection of duties and taxes.
Customs territory: The territory of Ethiopia.
Customs value: A value of goods used as the basis for assessing the 
amount of duty and taxes, actually paid or payable i.e., the sum of 
cost, freight, insurance and other expenses as appraised by Customs 
based on the valuation methods of the Customs Proclamation and 
valuation directive provisions.
Declarant: Any person who makes a goods declaration or in whose 
name such a declaration is made.
Duty: A charge levied and collected on any imported or exported 
goods in accordance with the Customs Tariff Regulations issued 
pursuant to the Customs Proclamation and the International 
Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and 
Coding System.
Goods: Any kind of corporeal chattels and other incorporeal 
chattels deemed to be corporeal chattels by law including natural 
forces and resources of an economic value which are employed in 
use, including money.