{"id":762,"date":"2012-10-21T08:37:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T08:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clearit.ca\/customs-broker-blog\/bid\/89318\/b1a9b448-bbcc-48be-86e5-2ac5e595adf5"},"modified":"2014-03-31T09:41:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T13:41:25","slug":"canada-customs-invoice-the-low-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/canada-customs-invoice-the-low-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Customs Invoice: The Low-Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a title=\"Canada Customs Invoice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca\/publications\/forms-formulaires\/ci1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Canada Customs Invoice<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>A commercial invoice is a requirement of the CBSA (remember: Canada Border Services Agency) for importing into Canada. \u00a0An invoice can take on many forms, \u00a0we&#8217;ve seen some in the form of lipstick on a napkin &#8211; no that won&#8217;t work. \u00a0A commercial invoice illustrates the transaction that takes place between the buyer and seller. \u00a0At the most basic level, it shows who the seller is, who the purchaser is and the pricing information. \u00a0You would think that was enough? Right? \u00a0Wrong! Canada Customs is going to need a whole lot more information about your transaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Canada Customs Invoice or <a title=\"Canada Customs Invoice \" href=\"http:\/\/www.clearit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2012\/09\/Canada-Customs-Invoice.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">CCI<\/a> as its commonly referred to is a fool-proof way of giving all the information to us at Clearit.ca. \u00a0By filling out each mandatory field, you&#8217;re basically answering the questions that customs wants to know. \u00a0For example: What is the date of the sale? \u00a0Are there any additional costs included in the price of the goods? Whats the description of the goods (its nice to know the product code is TMZ44234, but what exactly is a TMZ44234?). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not going to just talk about a Canada Customs Invoice without letting you see what one looks like. \u00a0You can access a fillable <a title=\"Canada Customs Invoice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clearit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2012\/09\/Canada-Customs-Invoice.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Canada Customs Invoice here<\/a>. \u00a0But here&#8217;s the greatest news you&#8217;ve read all day &#8211; when you clear your shipment with Clearit.ca we prepare the CCI for you (free of charge). \u00a0Thats right! A free CCI to keep and call your own is included in all our standard clearance fees.<\/p>\n<p>To <strong>clear your shipment today<\/strong>, with a live customs agent just click the <a title=\"Start Your Clearance\" href=\"https:\/\/process.clearit.ca\/clearance.php\" target=\"_blank\">Start Your Clearance<\/a> button on our homepage\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you need <strong>instructions to fill a Canada Customs invoice<\/strong>, <a title=\"click here\" href=\"http:\/\/cbsa-asfc.gc.ca\/publications\/dm-md\/d1\/d1-4-1-eng.pdf\" target=\"_self\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca\/publications\/forms-formulaires\/ci1.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" title=\"Canada Customs- nvoice\" alt=\"Clearit.ca | Canadian Customs Broker | Canada Customs Invoice\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clearit.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Canada-Customs-Invoice.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canadian Customs Broker | Canada Customs Invoice[\/caption]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada Customs Invoice A commercial invoice is a requirement of the CBSA (remember: Canada Border Services Agency) for importing into Canada. \u00a0An invoice can take on many forms, \u00a0we&#8217;ve seen some in the form of lipstick on a napkin &#8211; no that won&#8217;t work. \u00a0A commercial invoice illustrates the transaction that takes place between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,12,142,244,1],"tags":[714,51,50,8,52,715,15,53,19,36,54,26,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/2357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearit.ca\/canadian-customs-broker-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}