Customs to reduce clearance time for import and export goods

Customs to reduce clearance time for import and export goods at Vietnam

Customs to reduce clearance time for import and export goods at Vietnam
The observance of administrative procedures on the national OSS customs mechanism in recent times has brought about practical results

The General Department of Vietnam Customs has set out specific goals for 2017, including efforts to reduce clearance time by 70 hours for exports and 90 hours for imports, whilst offering 100% public services online at level 3 or above, and 70% of the key sectors’ public services at level 4, the highest of the four online public service levels.

The move is part of the customs sector’s efforts to implement Government Resolution No. 19-2017/NQ-CP dated February 6, 2017 on main tasks and measures to improve the country’s business environment and enhance national competitiveness in 2017, with orientations towards 2020.

It is a tough challenge and requires huge efforts to realise the abovementioned targets, aiming to improve Vietnam’s ranking from 93rd position to below-82nd place in terms of clearance time for cross-border trade transactions (as rated by the World Bank) in 2017.

Enhancing the quality of specialised inspection work over import and export goods is an immediate measure with considerable impacts for reducing clearance time, which should be taken into account by the customs sector. This step has received the most “criticism” from businesses due to its inadequacies leading to prolonged cargo clearance time.

First of all, it is of urgent need to design and issue a full list of goods items under specialised inspection in orientation towards narrowing the scale of inspection, reducing the list of goods subject to inspection, detailing codes of dossiers and applying the principle of risk management in inspection work.

The sector should also shift from inspection during the clearance process into post-clearance inspection, whilst issuing national technical regulations and standards for goods subject to specialised inspection, which will be used as a premise to evaluate the quality of products and commodities.

Training needs to be offered to the Customs Inspection Department and its branches so that they are able to proactively engage in analysis, examination and specialised inspection activities conducted over a number of imports and exports, on the basis of legal regulations on quality examination and the authorisation of relevant specialised management ministries.

Encouraging the socialisation of specialised inspection over imports and exports, in order to meet the target of reducing cargo clearance time, is also a feasible solution at present.

The observance of administrative procedures on the National One-Stop-Shop (OSS) mechanism in recent times has brought about practical results. However, in reality, enterprises still want the customs sector to further expand administrative formalities and incorporate tax, cost and fee e-payment services on the national OSS mechanism, thus helping businesses to save time and reduce costs, as the majority of required dossiers have been simplified and electronised.

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