The import.
Import is the usual name for the import of goods and services of restaurant economics, which have their domicile outside of the respective country. The opposite of import is the export. The export balances itself with the import to depending upon surplus to the net import or net export.
With the computation of the import in Germany the Federal Statistical Office proceeds from statistics of the general trade. The import numbers cover cost of insurance and freight CIF. The German Federal Bank supplements the foreign trade balance around the balance of the primary incomes, the additions of the trade and the balance of the current transmissions to the balance of payments on current account.
For certain goods import licences are to be caught up, there individual goods categories quantitative restrictions (import quotas) due to international trade agreements are subject. In Germany one needs a permission for example for the import of the following goods by the Federal Office for economics and export control (BAFA):
- Steel and iron
- Shoes from Viet Nam
- Textiles and clothing goods
- Ceramic(s) and porcelain from the People's Republic of China
For the arrangement of the trade agreements regarding assumption of the costs for transport, packing, insurance and the passage of the risk at the object of the purchase of the international Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris since 1936 published Incoterms (current version of 2000) as standardized clauses of a contract are usually used.
The importer has to carry providing with the import into the economic area of the European union for paying the due tariffs and import value added tax.
For the security of the completion services can be taken up by banks. For this Dokumenteninkassi or also letters of credit count.