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The implementation of a real-time electronic cargo monitoring system to track goods transported in transit enables countries in East Africa to cut transit time, prevent cargo theft and boost … revenue collection.

Since the Fourth Industrial Revolution was mentioned in 2016 at the World Economic Forum, the impact of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the blockchain and “big data” have become … issues discussed at length worldwide. In Korea, in preparing for the future, the government formed a “Fourth Industrial Revolution Committee” in 2017, directly reporting to the President.

When electronic data interchange (EDI) was introduced half a century ago, it rang in an era of business automation. Two decades later, in the eighties, standards began to converge towards the … UN/EDIFACT standard, which set the foundations for global data exchange between businesses.

There can be no improvement in Customs performance without an upgrade of the information system. Given that the system has to be adapted to Customs, a profession that is constantly evolving in … the wake of the amendments to the legislative arsenal underpinning foreign trade, this improvement must be treated as a continuous and dynamic process.

Intelligence-based risk management is a term widely used in the Customs sector and everyone agrees that today, it is the way to go to support global trade facilitation efforts and deal with resource … constraints. One of the key measures to implement such a policy is to have a systematic and accurate intelligence database with enforcement data.

Naudodamiesi įvairiomis duomenų bazėmis, pvz. LITAR, TARIC, retai kada pagalvojame, kaip duomenys jose atsiranda. Vokietijos bendrovė Mendel tiekia duomenis eksportuotojų naudojamai patekimo … į rinką duomenų bazei, angl. Market Access Database (ateityje pavadinimas keisis į Acess2Markets). Bendrovės vadovaujanti partnerė Anna Gayk maloniai sutiko pristatyti šią duomenų bazę ir pačios bendrovės veiklą.

Nuo 2017 metų vykdomas tyrimas apie galimą Blockchain technologijos taikymą muitinės ir mokesčių srityse. Vienu iš labiausiai dominančių dokumentų yra ATA knygelė - tarptautinis muitinės dokumentas, … naudojamas 87 šalyse ir teritorijose, kurios leidžia be muitų laikinai įvežti daugumą prekių laikotarpiui iki vienerių metų.Pasaulio muitinių organizacijai maloniai sutikus, pristatome naujausiame „PMO naujienų“ numeryje publikuotą straipsnį apie tai, kaip ateityje planuojama keisti darbą su ATA knygele.

Beveik 80 šalių yra sukūrusios AEO programas, o kai kurios iš jų jau pasirašė abipusio pripažinimo susitarimus (angl. sutr. MRA) arba yra pasirašymo proceso eigoje: iki dabar pasirašytas rekordinis … skaičius 60 MRA ir šiuo metu deramasi dar dėl daugiau nei 40. Tačiau kaip užtikrinti, kad MRA būti veiksmingai įgyvendinamos ir teiktų prekybininkams naudą, kuri jiems buvo žadėta? Pasaulio muitinių organizacijai maloniai sutikus, pristatome naujausiame „PMO naujienų“ numeryje publikuotą straipsnį šia tema.

Vyriausybės turi mažinti trintį tarpvalstybinėje prekyboje, tačiau tarpvyriausybinės iniciatyvos patiria sunkumų, kuriuos didina ir įvairios vyriausybinės agentūros, turinčios interesų prie sienos. … Šiai dienai formalumų sutvarkymas vienai siuntai per sieną gali įtraukti vidutiniškai 15 agentūrų, o kartais net iki 40! Už viso šito slypi nepasitikėjimas tarp pirkėjų, pardavėjų, tiekimo grandinės dalyvių, agentūrų ir vyriausybių. Kaip tokias problemas spręsti? Pasaulio muitinių organizacijai maloniai sutikus, pristatome naujausiame „PMO naujienų“ numeryje publikuotą straipsnį šia tema.

There are currently over 400 free trade agreements and preferential trade arrangements in place worldwide, which establish lower rates of Customs duties for certain goods provided that specified … origin criteria are met. However, many companies ignore the fact that they can claim tariff preferences, or, if they do know that such schemes exist, they do not understand how to verify that the goods they buy or sell are eligible for preferential treatment.

Prieš du metus Blockchain iš esmės buvo tik madingas naujadaras. Šiandieną šis terminas yra daugelio svarbiausių muitinės ir prekybos organizacijų darbotvarkėje. Nebeklausiama, ar taikyti Blockchain, … klausiama – kur ir kada. Pasaulio muitinių organizacijai maloniai sutikus, pristatome informaciją publikuotą naujausiame „PMO naujienų“ numeryje. Artimiausiuose leidinio numeriuose pristatysime ir daugiau straipsnių šia tema – pasaulis technologijų dėka sparčiai keičiasi, todėl svarbu žinoti, kaip dirbsime netolimoje ateityje.

The Brazilian government has recently centralized its export procedures and developed a new online platform to process export operations in order to make them more efficient and, ultimately, … boost the economy. The new “unified export system” is the first application developed as part of Brazil’s Single Window project that started in 2014 and which aims to integrate all existing information technology (IT) processes currently used by border agencies to manage trade flows, thus enabling enhanced coordination and better controls while facilitating data reporting for traders.

Dubai Customs launched a smart mobile app enabling passengers arriving in Dubai to securely submit Customs declarations electronically, thus bypassing the current traditional paper forms. The … online application, called iDeclare, simplifies the Customs clearance process for passengers by enabling self-declaration of their must-declare commercial goods, personal effects or cash either pre or post arrival at the airport, saving them both time and effort.

This section of the magazine gathers several articles on the “Blockchain,” a term which refers to a type of data structure that identifies and tracks transactions digitally and shares this information … across a distributed network of computers. Blockchain is one type of distributed ledger: distributed ledgers use independent computers – referred to as nodes – to record, share and synchronize transactions, instead of keeping data centralized as is the case with a traditional ledger.

The border is a national asset. To boost national competitiveness, facilitating legitimate cross-border trade must be high on every government’s agenda. The World Trade Organization (WTO) estimates … that ratification of the Trade Facilitation Agreement could boost global trade by up to 1 trillion US dollars and reduce total trade costs by 13% for upper-middle income countries. Put simply, making cross-border trade more efficient offers a sizeable pay-off for governments and citizens.

The movement of goods and means of transport from, across or to, the European Union (EU) involves many actors in the supply chain who must exchange information and comply with several pieces … of EU legislation and, in particular, with Customs, transport, environmental protection, safety, and security regulations. This renders the process of cross-border operations highly complex.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has been supporting the development of a blockchain solution to enable automated, secure and efficient information sharing on Authorized Economic Operators … (AEOs) among the Customs administrations of Mexico, Peru and Costa Rica to ensure the efficient implementation of Mutual Recognition Arrangements/Agreements (MRAs).

“Did you pack this bag yourself?” It’s a question many of us are used to being asked when checking in at an airport. For a shipping container, the situation is more complex. Most organizations … never communicate directly with the party that stuffed the container. Underpinned by blockchain technology, the TradeLens platform lays the foundation for global, digital supply chains.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with its Hong Kong counterpart in November 2017 to jointly develop a cross-border distributed ledger technology … (DLT) based infrastructure that will link up digital trade platforms and the growing number of trade-related DLT platforms and communities around the world. In this article, Singapore Customs presents this new initiative called the ‘Global Trade Connectivity Network,’ which is expected to be operational in 2019 as well as the new trade information management ecosystem called the ‘Networked Trade Platform,’ which was officially launched in September 2018, and explains how the two systems play complementary roles in stitching up the global trade ecosystem, empowered by both DLT and non-DLT based technologies.

In 1993, the Department of Federal Revenue of Brazil (RFB), which has under its umbrella both the Customs service and the internal revenue service, launched Brazil’s Integrated International … Trade System (Siscomex) as part of its efforts to implement computer-based procedures and controls. The System, which allows economic operators to register merchandise transactions at import and export, feeds a huge database.