Effectiveness of the Customs Procedures: A CHA Perspective

Customs is the foremost agency at the border and plays a prominent role in the release of goods, Customs should strive to reduce the complexity of clearance procedures and to limit their information requirements to the information that is really necessary. Modern Customs administrations have recognized that streamlining and simplifying clearance procedures is of benefit to their importers, their exporters and their national economies. To achieve the goal of offering efficient and effective clearance procedures, while continuing to maintain their traditional duties of revenue collection and enforcement activities, Customs administrations are increasingly introducing simplified procedures. In order to ensure that these are applied in an effective manner, the procedures have to be reviewed and updated at regular intervals.