Customs clearing in Lebanon
Shipments are cleared by our own brokers, so your file is not handed to a broker down the street.
Customs clearance is a legal process for both importing and exporting goods. It asks for paperwork detailing the goods and their manufacturers before they are cleared for export, or for use in the country of destination. It is paperwork, and it is the part of a journey where a shipment either moves or waits.
Global Aim has cleared its own shipments since 2008. The clearing desk sits in the same office as the people who booked the freight, which is the practical difference: one file, one set of people, nothing to explain twice.
You do not have to have shipped with us. Clearing stands on its own: bring us a shipment another forwarder carried, or one you arranged yourself, and it is cleared the same way as our own.
It runs alongside the rest of the file — inland haulage from the port once the goods are released, and cargo insurance covering them throughout if you have taken it.
What the clearing desk handles
- Import clearance
- Papers filed, goods released.
- Export clearance
- The same process, outbound.
- Our own brokers
- Not passed to a third party.
- Any mode
- Sea, air or land.
- Trucking
- Inland haulage once released.
- Cargo insurance
- Fire, water damage and total loss.
- Clearing only
- A shipment we did not carry, cleared all the same — the freight need not have been booked with us.
What a clearance asks for
Paperwork detailing the goods and their manufacturers. In practice that means the commercial invoice, the packing list, and the transport document — a bill of lading for a sea shipment, an air waybill for a flight.
Beyond those, it depends on what the goods are. Some categories carry requirements of their own, and the time to find that out is before the cargo leaves its supplier, not after it has landed. Ask us early and we will tell you what your particular shipment needs.
Send what you already have. If something is missing we will say so rather than let the file arrive short.
Questions
The five we are asked most often about clearing.
- Can you clear a shipment you did not ship?
- Yes. Clearing is a service on its own: if another forwarder carried the goods, or you arranged the freight yourself, bring us the shipment and our brokers will clear it. You do not have to book the freight with us.
- Do you clear shipments yourselves, or pass them to a broker?
- Ourselves. Clearing is done by Global Aim's own brokers, at desks in the same office as the people who booked the freight, so the file is not handed to a broker down the street.
- Do you clear exports as well as imports?
- Yes. Customs clearance is a legal process for both importing and exporting goods, and both are handled here, for sea, air and land shipments alike.
- What papers does a clearance need?
- Paperwork detailing the goods and their manufacturers: in practice the commercial invoice, the packing list and the transport document — a bill of lading for a sea shipment, an air waybill for a flight — plus whatever the goods themselves require. What a particular shipment needs depends on what it is, so it is worth asking before it leaves rather than after it lands.
- Do you truck the goods once they are released?
- Yes. Inland haulage from the port is handled by us, and cargo insurance covers the goods throughout if you have taken it.
The rest of what we do
Clearing is one desk of several. The freight itself is handled in the same office.
Tell us what you are moving.
A packing list is usually enough to start.