Goods
placed in yards and stores of the Department shall be
subject to the fees of storing, porterage, insurance and other services needed for the
storing and the examination of the goods. Under no
circumstances should the due storing fee exceed half the
assessed value of the goods. In case the stores and
warehouses are run by other parties, these parties may
collect these fees in accordance with the rules and rates
determined to this effect.
The goods may be subject to the services allowances of
packing, buttoning, sealing, analyzing, stamping and all the
other services rendered to them.
The allowances prescribed in this Article, the terms of
their collection, cases of reducing them or exempting them
and the values of the publications offered by the Department
shall be determined by directives from the Minister to be
published in the Official Gazette.
Article 161:
A- The following allowances shall be levied from the owners
of the goods for the officials of the Jordan Customs and
other departments working with them:
0.002 of the value of the imported, and re-exported and the
locally-sold goods.
0.001 of the value of transit goods.
B- The Council of Ministers, upon recommendation from the
Minister, may exclude any goods from payment of the above
mentioned allowances.
C- The Council of Ministers, upon recommendation from the
Minister, may fix the allowances levied for an overtime work
done for working shops, factories and ships and any other
work carried out outside the customs zone.
D- Allowances collected under this Article shall be paid to
the eligible officers prescribed in paragraph A of this
Article in the manner determined by the Minister and the
remaining sums are deposited in a special fund for the
Department. The Minister or whomever he authorizes may spend
from the deposited money in the fund to improve the customs
houses and establish housing compounds and housing loans for
customs officials as well as improving their living, sport,
cultural and social standards.
Article 162:
The duties and allowances prescribed in Articles 160 and 161
shall not fall under the rules of exemption from duties or
refund fees mentioned in this Law.
Article 163:
The people concerned, upon their request, shall be given
receipts confirming their payment of customs duties and
taxes or the completion of any formalities or documents
allowing them to transport the goods or circulate them or
possess them in return for one Jordanian dinars per document
and within directives determined by the Director.
Please note that the authentic text for
the Customs Law 20/1998 is Arabic language and this is the
non-official translation
