Documentation and Other Fees

Documentation and Other Fees

(These apply to traders who declare their own permit applications and do not include service fees charged by private companies like service centres and freight forwarders. Click here for a list of Service Centres and their rates.)

Processing Through TradeNet®

Payment has to be made through Inter-Bank GIRO accounts.
Each TradeNet® permit application is typically about $2.88 including:
- $0.90 for statutory fees, and
- $1.98 for processing and transmission charges.
Each Certificate of Origin (CO) application together with an OUT permit application is typically about $8.86 including:
1. Each OUT permit application:
  - $0.90 for statutory fees, and
  - $1.98 for processing and transmission charges
2. Each CO application:
  - $4 for statutory fees, and
  - $1.98 for processing and transmission charges.

Manual Processing

Payment has to be made by NETS, cash card or credit card for below applications:

Application	Fee per document

Certificate of Origin application	S$10
Import Certificate and Delivery Verification application	S$10
Certificate of Free Sale and Certificate of Non-Manipulation	S$4
Any other Certificate	S$10
Certified copy	S$4

Payment has to be made through Inter-Bank GIRO accounts for below applications:

Application	Fee per document
Kimberley Process Licence (per year or part thereof)	S$50
Kimberley Process Certificate (per certificate)	S$5

Customs Miscellaneous Fees

The following fees are payable according to the Customs (Miscellaneous Fees) Notification:

	Application/Service	Fee
1	Certification of landing certificates, true copies of Customs permits and any such other documents as the Director-General may determine	$15 per document
2	Copies of statements supplied to defence counsel	$45 per document
3	Approval of a certificate of exemption where the Customs duty on industrial raw materials exceeds $100	$225
4	Approval of drawback	$60 per outward declaration
5	Attendance of officers of Customs in connection with - (a) survey of goods	$20 per half hour or part thereof per continuous operation
	(b) destruction of goods	$40 per half hour or part thereof per continuous operation
6	Attendance of an officer of Customs in connection with - (a) the stuffing and unstuffing of containers	$20 per half hour or part thereof per continuous operation
	(b) the bottling, blending, compounding, varying or denaturing of intoxicating liquors in a licensed warehouse	$20 per half hour or part thereof per continuous operation
	(c) the reconditioning of liquors and tobacco in bond at the request of the owner or his agent	$20 per half hour or part thereof per continuous operation
	(d) the packing and, if necessary, the sealing of cases and packages of duty-paid goods for re-export under drawback	$20 per half hour or part thereof per continuous operation
	(e) operation in premises not licensed under the Act	$20 per half hour or part thereof per continuous operation
	(f) such other act or service requiring the attendance of officers of Customs as the Director-General may determine	$20 per half hour or part thereof per continuous operation
7	Escort of vehicles, containers or craft conveying dutiable or other goods as the Director-General may determine	$20 per half hour or part thereof per continuous operation
8	Attending to enquiries relating to the classification of any goods for the purposes of the Act	$85 per item of goods in respect of which enquiry is made
9	Attendance of an officer of Customs in connection with - (a) the extension of opening hours in respect of Customs offices, licensed factory warehouses, licensed warehouses, bottling warehouses, licensed distilleries, breweries, tobacco factories and other licensed factories for the manufacture of dutiable goods and container freight stations; or	Additional $20 per half hour or part thereof per continuous operation
	(b) the stuffing, unstuffing or any operation at any place beyond the hours specified	Additional $20 per half hour or part thereof per continuous operation
10	A request for overtime attendance of an officer of Customs not cancelled during office hours prior to the time overtime is required even though no overtime attendance is required	$10