Customs duty example sentences

A merchant travelling in 1833 from Hamburg to Nuremberg to sell his goods would have had to pass through 11 customs barriers and pay a customs duty of about 5 per cent at each one of them.The bill of entry contains information such as name and address of the importer, name of the ship, number of packages, marks on the package, description of goods, quantity and value of goods, name and address of the exporter, port of destination, and customs duty payable.In order to facilitate and promote trade, government provides several incentives schemes for international firms to import goods at zero or concessional rates of customs duty for use in manufacture of products meant for exports; exempt them from payment of various other duties and taxes; and carry out their import-export transactions in a less cumbersome environment.As such the exporter is not required to pay customs duty on goods imported for use in the manufacture of export goods.