Import Duty Group Maintenance

Use duty groups to combine the suppliers who have the same duty rules applied to them. Your duty groups can relate to a specific country or to a group of countries that are subject to the same rules.

Enter a code and description to represent the country, or group to which the same duty rules apply.

Duty groups are assigned to countries, which are subsequently assigned to suppliers, so each supplier is ultimately for a duty group by way of the country it belongs to. When duty is calculated in Shipment Entry, Greentree references the duty supplier's country to determine which duty group to apply to a shipment.

Duty groups are assigned to duty codes in the Duty Code Maintenance form, and rules can be defined for multiple duty groups within each duty code. This is applicable if an item can be imported from more than country, where different duty rules apply.

Each imported inventory item has a duty code for it, so that when Greentree calculates duty for an item, it looks at both the item duty code, the import supplier's duty group, and references Duty Code Maintenance to find the rules of the specific duty code/group combination.