2024-03-03T13:15:09+00:00
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/ On Sunday, Iraqi Customs started implementing the Customs Automation and Modernization System (ACYCUDA) within the Grand Welcome Sq. in Umm Qasr Port, south of the nation.
She mentioned in a press release, acquired by Company, that the Minister of Finance gave the sign to implement this system throughout a ceremony held within the Grand Welcome Sq., attended by United Nations consultant Nizar Amari, and numerous officers and heads of departments working within the port.
The assertion quoted the Minister of Finance in her speech as saying that implementing this technique within the port of Umm Qasr comes throughout the strategic plan adopted by the federal government within the discipline of utilizing fashionable strategies and know-how, noting that implementing the automation system will obtain a set of targets, crucial of that are monetary self-discipline, decreasing errors and attaining effectivity. Effectiveness in utilizing authorities sources, along with offering correct information and knowledge.
The Minister confirmed that this step is likely one of the steps that the federal government put in its curriculum and was adopted by the Common Authority of Customs to use know-how and preserve tempo with the international locations of the world.
For his half, Director Common of Customs, Counselor Hassan Al-Ugaili, mentioned in his speech throughout the ceremony that the authority is dedicated to its duties, which revolve round three fundamental axes, the primary of which is facilitating respectable commerce and the axis of safety by implementing authorities choices within the discipline of restriction and prevention, which offer safety for the buyer and society from the entry of prohibited supplies, along with The gathering and income axis, which might be managed by way of the appliance of the customs modernization and automation system (ASYCUDA).
The Authority acknowledged that it had beforehand carried out this program at Baghdad Worldwide Airport/Air Cargo Customs, stressing that steps are accelerating to implement it in all areas, customs facilities and the remainder of its departments.
She added that the system of automating and modernizing customs by way of the appliance of the (ASYCUDA) program, which is in impact in additional than (100) international locations, which got here after the signing of a partnership contract by the Ministry of Finance with the United Nations Convention on Commerce and Growth (UNCTAD) in 2021, the place a global workforce was despatched. A specialist from UNCTAD supervises the implementation of this system in cooperation with a piece workforce from the Iraqi Customs. Making ready the necessities for its implementation started, and the workers had been educated to work on its administration and achieve expertise from the worldwide workforce, in addition to introducing them to coaching workshops inside and out of doors Iraq.