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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.

The importance of the Time Release Study (TRS) has long been emphasized by the WCO as a useful tool for Customs administrations across the world to assess their performance in terms of the clearance … process. Jawaharlal Nehru Custom House, catering to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), India’s biggest containerized port, has been conducting such studies[1] since 2013 as per the WCO’s guidelines. This article presents the results drawn from the latest study, highlighting the impact of facilitation schemes on goods release times.

Customs administrations collate a significant volume of data on a daily basis. For instance, the Korea Customs Service (KCS) accumulates 45 GB of structured data and 30 GB of unstructured data … in its database every day. However, most Customs administrations were until now not able to leverage such data due to a lack of information technology (IT) infrastructure and knowledge about data analytics techniques.

A lack of Customs systems interconnectivity coupled with delays and inaccuracies in the paper based exchange of cross-border trade data between Customs administrations continues to negatively … hamper trade facilitation and regional integration efforts in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). The situation translates into unsatisfied traders, unreliable trade statistics, controversies around Member States’ allocations from the common revenue pool, and high revenue leakage risks.

From 31 October to 2 November 2017, for the sixth time, the WCO organized its Technology & Innovation Forum, a platform for leading technology experts and decision-makers from various border … agencies, as well as representatives of the academic world and international organizations, to discuss technologies and how they can add to the capabilities of Customs officers as they work to address border challenges.

Lapkričio 15 d. Klaipėdos teritorinėje muitinėje vyko Klaipėdos regiono muitinės konsultacinio komiteto pakomitečio posėdis. Apžvelgiame aptartą centralizuoto įforminimo temą, kuria pranešimą … skaitė ir į verslo klausimus atsakė Muitinės departamento Muitinės kontrolės organizavimo skyriaus viršininkas Laimis Žlabys.

Prekių klasifikavimui, informacijai apie importo ir eksporto mokesčius bei apribojimus ir draudimus sužinoti, naudojame LITAR duomenų bazę. Apžvelkime šį mėnesį Muitinės departamento generalinio … direktoriaus įsakymu Nr. 1B-985 (2017.11.21) patvirtintas LITAR naudojimo taisykles, atkreipdami dėmesį į verslui žinotinus praktinius aspektus - kokią informaciją randame LITAR, ar ši informacija turi juridinę galią.

Europos Komisija pranešė, kad 2017 m. spalio 2 d. baigtas muitinės sprendimų sistemos diegimas ir verslas prašymus muitinei išduoti pageidaujamą leidimą turėtų teikti elektroniniu būdu. Aptarkime, … kokie leidimai bus išduodami per šią visoje ES naudojamą sistemą ir koks bus jų išdavimo procesas.

A decade ago, transit of goods in Central America suffered from lack of coordination of border agencies, cumbersome and slow Customs and administrative procedures, and limited use of information … technologies. More precisely, exporters with shipments in transit had to clear Customs at each side of countries’ bilateral borders and sequentially submit multiple paper documents to the various intervening agencies, including printed copies of international transit declarations, country-specific sanitary and phytosanitary certificates, and migration arrival and departure cards.

2017 birželio 30 d. startavo EuroMed prekybos duomenų bazė, jungtinis Europos Komisijos ir Tarptautinio prekybos centro projektas. Šiuo projektu siekiama skatinti ES prekybą su devyniomis Viduržemio … jūros šalimis, suteikiant įmonėms informaciją apie importo ir eksporto sąlygas, specifinius rinkos reikalavimus. Aptarkime šią bei keletą kitų duomenų bazių.

In major humanitarian crises, whether natural disasters or complex emergencies, many relief goods are delayed by Customs. Sometimes these items are only released months after their arrival, and, … in the worst-case scenario, may never reach the affected population. The reason for such delays is that Customs authorities are often not adequately prepared to process the large amount of relief items that usually arrive in a disaster stricken country within a very short period of time.

Data is generated by every economic activity, including by the movement of goods and people. In fact, the convergence of several technologies is accelerating the generation of data. According … to experts, the volume of data continues to double every three years as information pours in from digital platforms, wireless sensors, virtual-reality applications, and billions of mobile phones. In addition, data storage capacity has increased, while its cost has plummeted. Data scientists now have unprecedented computing power at their disposal, and they are devising algorithms that are ever more sophisticated.

Effective border management requires the identification of people and goods, and the collection and analysis of relevant information at the earliest possible point in the travel and trade continuum. … The “business” of modern border management organizations has evolved, and is now driven by the active use of advanced data.

The New Zealand Customs Service is getting closer to completing a major modernization project, called the Joint Border Management System. The system has two key components: the development and … implementation of the New Zealand Trade Single Window; and advanced risk and intelligence capability, including new tools to provide sophisticated data mining, risk rating, and pattern analysis.

As a partner of business and a guardian of trade, Singapore Customs strives to strike a fine balance between making sure sufficient controls are in place to interdict illicit trade, and ensuring … that legitimate trade continues to flow unhindered. This requires Singapore Customs to be adept at data analysis, which strengthens enforcement and boosts compliance by the trading community.

As the WCO is dedicating 2017 to encouraging the use of data analysis for more effective border management, I would like to share my own personal experience in this field, and explain how I was … able to develop my data analysis skills thanks to the WCO’s support.

Data analytics – for example, automated selectivity rules – has become an increasingly important tool for Customs agencies. However, conventional data analytics has some critical limitations. … It can only look for pre-defined patterns and rules, and cannot make use of unstructured data, which comes in the form of emails, social media, blogs, documents, images and videos. Cognitive computing allows Customs agencies to extract insights from both structured and unstructured data, discover new patterns and rules, capture the experience of top performers, and improve the quality and consistency of decision-making.