Montserrat

Montserrat Port Authority Cargo Clearance

Operating Days & Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Note: Both the Port and Customs cashiers close promptly at 3:15 PM.

Steps to Clear Your Cargo:

1. Contact your local agent/broker regarding your shipment.
2. Collect your delivery slip and bill of lading from the agent, and ensure you have your printed invoices for Customs verification.
3. On arrival at the Montserrat Port Authority, check in with the Security Officer at the entry gate before entering the MPA/MCRS Customer Service area.
4. Present your delivery slip to the Port Cashier (on your immediate right) for payment of port charges.
5. Proceed to the warehouse through the single metal door (under the AC unit signage), then continue right to the Port Operations window. A Port Clerk will take your delivery slip to locate your cargo for Customs examination.
6. Once the Customs examination is complete, the Customs Officer will guide you to one of two scenarios:
• Scenario 1: If your Customs entry can be processed on site, the Officer will guide you to the Customs Operations window.
  • Once completed, pay any duties at the Customs Cashier window.
  • Return to the Customs Operations window for a Cargo Release Advise (CRA).
  • Give the CRA to the Port Clerk at the Port Operations window.
• Scenario 2: If you must go through a Customs broker:
  • Take your delivery slip, verified invoices, and bill of lading to a Customs broker of your choice.
  • Once notified that your entry is ready, collect it and return to the MPA/MCRS Customer Service area.
  • Pay at the Customs Cashier window, then return to the Customs Operations window for your CRA.
  • Give the CRA to the Port Clerk at the Port Operations window.
7. The Port Clerk will ask how you intend to transport your goods (by hand or by vehicle). If by vehicle, you must provide the vehicle registration number.
8. A gate pass for your cargo will be issued. A Port Operator or Port Clerk will load your cargo onto the vehicle.
9. Your cargo and gate pass will be verified by:
   • A Port Clerk and Security Officer at the warehouse exit, and
   • A Security Officer at the Port compound gate before departure.

Guidance: Port personnel will guide you through each step on the compound.

Online Tariff

• Section 01 - Live animals; animal products
• Section 02 - Vegetable products
• Section 03 - Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• Section 04 - Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• Section 05 - Mineral products
• Section 06 - Products of the chemical or allied industries
• Section 07 - Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof
• Section 08 - Raw hides and skins, leather, furskins and articles thereof; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut)
• Section 09 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork
• Section 10 - Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof
• Section 11 - Textiles and textile articles
• Section 12 - Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, walking sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers; articles of human hair
• Section 13 - Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials; ceramic products; glass and glassware
• Section 14 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin
• Section 15 - Base metals and articles of base metal
• Section 16 - Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers and parts and accessories of such articles
• Section 17 - Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment
• Section 18 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof
• Section 19 - Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
• Section 20 - Miscellaneous manufactured articles
• Section 21 - Works of art, collectors pieces and antiques

Tariff Codes

Understanding Tariff Codes

Tariff codes are internationally recognised reference numbers. A code describes a specific type of product when importing or exporting goods. You will use this code on any customs declarations and can find them in the First Schedule Document.

You’ll need to find the right tariff code for any goods you import or export, as it determines:

• the rate of Customs Duty and import VAT
• taxes
• preferential rates which may apply

Tariff Codes - Download PDF