Istanbul Convention (temporary admission)
Also called: Convention on Temporary Admission
The WCO convention, signed in Istanbul in 1990, that brings together the rules on temporary admission of goods such as professional equipment, exhibition goods, commercial samples and means of transport. Its annexes allow the use of ATA carnets and CPD carnets as guarantee documents.
In practice
Whether a destination is party to the relevant annex decides whether an ATA carnet can be used there.
EU
Türkiye
UKRelated terms
- Temporary admission
- A special procedure allowing non-Union goods intended for re-export to be used in the customs territory with total or partial relief from import…
- ATA carnet
- An international customs document allowing goods to be temporarily imported without duty in member countries of the ATA system, for uses such as…
- CPD carnet
- An international customs document for the temporary admission of private motor vehicles, issued by automobile clubs that act as guarantors. It lets…
- World Customs Organization
- An intergovernmental organisation based in Brussels whose members represent customs administrations worldwide. It manages the Harmonized System and…