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Customs and trade facilitation

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Customs and trade

facilitation

Content

- Introduction

- Customs Administration of The Netherlands (CAN)

- Challenge of Customs

- Trade Facilitation & Trade Compliance

- Experiences from The Netherlands

Introduction

- Guusta Visser

- Customs Attaché, Customs attache Customs Administration of The Netherlands (CAN)

- Customs officer for over 20 years

- [email protected]

- +65 8499 3195

Beijing

Moscow

Singapore

Customs Attachés for the CAN

Brussels

Brasilia

Washington

Organisation Chart

Ministry of Finance

Secretary General

Directorate-General for Tax, Customs Policy,

Legislation

Directorate-General for the

Tax and Customs Administration

Tax Administration

Customs Administration

Fiscal Information and Investigation Service

Directorate-General of the

BudgetTreasury

Secretary-General Cluster

Customs Administration of The Netherlands

European Union = Customs Union

European Union

28 Member States24 official languages

28 Customs Administrations One Customs Union

Customs Union

- No internal borders

- Free movement of goods

- No internal customs controls or customs duties

- Import and export of goods across the external borders is subject to one EU legislation

- One "Common Customs Tariff", integrating all tariff related measures

- One set of EU rules for tariff classification

Customs

Customs is the enforcement authority that is responsible for the supervision of the EU external cross-border trade.

Customs deals with levying and collecting duties for the EU, national excises and consumption taxes, and is responsible for the enforcement in this field.

Strategic goals CAN

Some figures in declarations

Number of declarations

Import 164.726.388

Export 14.483.059

Incoming couriers 6.429.525

Outgoing couriers 5.441.127

Entry 8.412.178

Exit 20.896.103

Transit 2.971.658

Increasing flow of goods

- Flow of goods is vital to our economic growth and the flow will increase the coming years, because of:

- Brexit

- New legislation, UCC

- eCommerce

- Inbound, outbound and transit of goods subject to inspections and enforcement

Challenge for Customs

- Supervise all cross-border movements of goods

AND

- Enforce all national and international laws

WHILST

- Restricting hold-ups, hassle and bureaucratic interventions to an absolute minimum

Enforcement Vision CAN

Trade Facilitation & Trade Compliance

- Trade Facilitation: responsibility of governments

The process simplifications, modernization and harmonization of

export and import processes. How can procedures and controls be improved to reduce associated business cost and burdens to maximize efficiency and at the same time safeguarding laws and regulation.

- Trade Compliance: responsibility of trade

Companies comply with all laws and regulation of the countries that

goods are shipped to and with all internal company policies & logistic procedures. To reduce direct and indirect logistical cost.

Both: strong emphasis on simplification, harmonization, reduction of burdens and costs

Trade Facilitation & Trade Compliance

- Regular Customs-Business Consultations

- Three innovation-paths to break with the old way of thinking and acting:

- System Based Control

- Coordinated Border Management

- Pushing Controls Out the Border

Experiences from the Netherlands

- Yellow flow, CORE data pipeline – project Royal FloraHolland

Project Royal FloraHolland

- Data pipeline, interconnected source systems

- Potential benefits for business:

- Quality of the data

- Increasing visibility

- More predictability

- Status information

Experiences from the Netherlands

Coordinated Border Management:

- Single Window

a system that allows traders to lodge information with a single

body to fulfil ALL import and export related regulatory.

submission of data is a one-time transaction, 1 MIG!!!

- One Stop Shop

Coordination, optimization and interlinking of controls

Air side: Joint Inspection Center

Maritime side: State Inspection Center

Succesfactoren

Commitment Financiering Governance

StatusinformatieSupd@x

Da

ta

Single Window

Maritime

Air

Rail

InlandShipping

Road

Pipeline

Lange termijn ontwikkelingen Cassandra Data Pipe Line Extended Gate Concept informatie recherche Migratie OTP

Overheden

Transport

Safety and Security

Customs

Food Safety

Health

Environment/Inspection

Systemen

SPOC NL

API 3

DMF

VGC

eMAIL

EU

DG TAXUD DG MOVE DG SANCO

Richtlijn 2010/65 Maritiem SW

CORE

Gezamenlijktoezichtproces

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