NCTS
New Computerised Transit System – electronic declaration and processing for Union Transit (UT) and Transports Internationaux Routiers (TIR). Primarily for road traffic, it enables management and control of all goods (subject to import procedures, taxes, and duties) in transit throughout the European Community and their partners.
Import
Process of declaring goods coming from a third-party country to make them into free circulation. Rules and process varies depending on the country of departure and status of the goods and could include payment of VAT, duties and taxes, the necessity to have permit and licenses, subject to quotas, etc.
Export
Process of declaring goods going to a third-party country. Rules and process varies depending on the country of arrival and status of the goods and could include payment of and taxes, necessity to have permit and licenses, subject to quotas, etc.
EMCS
Excise Movement and Control System (EMCS) is an EU-wide computer system that is used to record duty suspended movements of excise goods taking place within the EU.
Port Connectivity
Some countries and/or port require the declarant to pass some customs declarations through a (sea or air) port system. Some port requires similar declarations in order to organize their own workload and occupation.
Unified Customs Schema (UCS)
BluJay’s purpose-built schema for data interface, that provides single connectivity from external systems to Customs Management-Global, and is available for Import, Export, NCTS-IN, NCTS-OUT, EMCS, and ICS. The UCS consolidates all elements of the declarations datasets, including duplicates when appropriate, and all possible steps of the customs workflow are natively in the schemas.