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Paperless Trade in Azerbaijan: State of Affairs

Anar Suleymanov

anar.suleymanov@customs.gov.az

State Customs Committee

Republic of Azerbaijan

towards a better trade environment

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Overview of TF/PT Initiatives

Major Challenges

Way Forwards

Right questions, right answers

• Ever changing global trade environment

• growing trade volumes• growing demand from business community• increased complexity and new trading patterns• innovations with international trade supply chain

THE WORLD WE LIVE IN

Risk Management

Risk Assessment

Post Clearance Audits

Advance Rulings Maximum use of

Information TechnologyAutomation

Partnershipwith the Trade

System of appeals

Pre-arrival Declaration

/Information

Single Window

Authorized Traders

WCO TF Techniques

Simplified Procedures and Practices

International Rankings: Azerbaijan

DB2016 rank: 63

DB2015 rank: 80

Change in rank: 17

DB 2016 TAB: 94

DB 2015 TAB: 166

Change in rank: 72

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Automated Customs Management: UAMS

Integrated Approach – Single Window

Minimized Contacts – e-Customs Services

Targeted Controls – Pre-Arrival Information

Performance Measurement – Time Release Study

Secure Transportations – GPS Trace and Track

System of Appeals – Customs Web Portal

Innovation Projects

UAMSTraders e-Government

Customs clearance

and customs control

Financial activities

Customs Enforcement

Trade Statistics

Resourcemanagement

Riskmanagement

Integrated Document

Management

Business Process

Management

United Automated Management System

Min. of Road Transport Phitosanitary ControlVeterinary ServiceSanitary -Quarantine

Service

Border Service UAMS

Min. of Taxes

Min. of Finance

Traders, Brokers....

IAMAS

Central Bank

INTERPOL

FHN, Radiation

Stand. and Patents

Min. of Economic Devel. IRU, SITA

Caspian Adm.

Traffic Police

Central Customs Examination

AZAL CARGO

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Single Window: Customs Leads

2009 Presidential Decree on the application of the Single Window (Nov 2008) Dozens of internal regulations

Cooperate with other border agencies, interact, grow mutual trust, and

remove overlaps or gaps to ensure consistent approach

C2B: NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR BUSINESS

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Time Release Study

Identifying bottlenecks processes affecting customs release

Assessing new procedures, operations, etc.

Identifying opportunities for TF improvement

Establishing baseline TF performance measurement

Develop a new benchmarking tool

TRS: Methodology and Approach

Focus on customs particular needs

Measure not time, but the effectiveness of the

operational procedures

Take traders’ perspective

• Time and Duration• Geographical scope – Border Customs Checkpoints• Type of Transportation – Land Transportation• Type of Goods – All Commercial Goods• Customs Procedures – Imports, Exports and Transit

Scope

Time Release Study (TRS): Azerbaijan approach

Single

Window

Border Service

Т1 Т4

Т2 Т3Border

Crossing Time

Document Submission

Time

Document Delivery

TimeEntrance

Time

Implementation of ICT-based Time Release Study (TRS)

Т1

Border Customs Checkpoint

Т4

Customs Operations«Single Window»

Т2 Т3

Customs of destination

Customs of cargo release

Т5 Т6Т7

Border Crossing

Time

Document Submission

Time

Document Delivery

Time

Entrance Time

Entry time to clearance cus-

toms

Time of lodging docu-ments for clearance

Cargo release time

Time required for customs control at the border Тbc = Т4 – Т1

Time required for Cargo Clearance Тcr = Т7 – Т5

Time required for Cargo Release

Тrel = Тbc + Тcr

TRS DATA PUBLICATION

TRS DATA PUBLICATION

Regional CooperationPre-Arrival Information Exchange

Georgia – ALREADY EXCHANGING

GUAM – PROTOCOL SIGNED (July 8th 2015)

Turkey – DRAFT PROTOCOL

Russia – DRAFT PROTOCOL

Islamic Republic of Iran – DRAFT PROTOCOL

Uzbekistan - DRAFT PROTOCOL

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To be launched from Jan 1st 2016

Paperless Declaration System

• Use advanced ICT and innovative working methods, while re-engineering business process

• Cooperate with OGAs and customs administrations: interact, grow mutual trust, and remove overlaps or gaps to ensure consistent approach;

• Involve trade: provide incentives, provide a better service;

• Integrate to global logistics: introduce new concepts, improve capacity, train personnel.

What are the Challenges?

Automation of document management

AMS “Single Window”(Road transport)

Integration with other agencies

AMS of customs

Time

Automation level

AMS “Single Window” (Air, Marine and Railway)

Clearance (Customs receipt order)

AMS of customs declaration

Application of electronic keys

Implementation of GPS system for road trans-port

Paperless technology in customs

e-Customs

e-Government

… e-Paymentse-Procuremente-Trade

Roadmap for Paperless Trade

Thank you !

anar.suleymanov@customs.gov.az

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