Israel: Is COVID-19 expected more than a war? The increase in customs value in Israel, due to the COVID-19 increase in transport prices - the problem, and the solutionAuthor: Wagner, Omer
Abstract:
Sea freight prices have risen sharply, due to the COVID-19 crisis, global
shortages of ships, declining competition in the field, and containers of
contagious demand.
In Israel, the value for customs purposes includes the transportation costs,
as in Singapore, and the majority of the states. On the contrary, the US,
Australia and NZ, have chosen to exclude transportation costs, for
customs value purposes.
Therefore, the increase in transportation costs leads to the increase in the
value of goods for customs purposes, and to a further collection of customs
duties, in Israel.
The Israeli law allows the state to facilitate importers and waive the extra
customs duties, and similar and other facilitations have been made in the
past, for example, in a war or strike situations.
Therefore, all that is required is the flexibility and activation of goodwill
on the part of the state, when interpreting the law, in order to relieve the
importers from extra duties, caused by the COVID-19 crisis.
Keywords:customs, valuation, transport, covid19, Israel.
DOI:
International Journal of Trade & Commerce (Vol: 10 Issue:2)
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