Getting accustomed to customs efficiency

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The customs sector will ramp up check at material import businesses with greater attention paid to importers of materials for export production, processing, and commodities in transit, according to the General Department of Customs (GDC).

Risk-prone businesses will be black-listed and subject to closer controls.

Commodities in transit, and those placed at bonded warehouses and export processing zones will grab customs bodies’ special attention.

The customs bodies will gather diverse sources of information relevant to import goods and people filling in customs declarations, especially those placing head offices in one place, but handling customs procedures in other places.

Imported foods shall incur closer control to reduce threats to epidemic outbreaks.

Deputy minister of Finance Do Hoang Anh Tuan said customs procedure reforms would be one of core contents for better customs management.

“The time for customs clearance in Vietnam is longer than in other regional countries whereas customs-related factors account for one thirds of the factors leading to the delay,” Tuan said.

Therefore, to enhance transparence in customs field, the Ministry of Finance just enacted Decision 808/QD-BTC announcing administrative procedures in customs field which are under its management, including 22 amended, supplemented and one fresh procedure. The new procedure relates to e-signature registration.

In respect to e-signature registration procedures, the e-signatures in e-customs procedures are the public digital signatures which were verified by customs bodies as compatible to e-customs data processing system.

The GDC will scale up efforts to shortly make public the list of organisations supplying e-signature authentication services.

The customs bodies are also trying to extend the list of enterprises subject to enjoying priority in customs check for their long-time law obedience. Twenty businesses will reportedly be given the priority status as coming on par with GDC standards in 2013.