What is the comprehensive customs system?
The establishment of a comprehensive customs system is due to the need that is felt in organizing the trade network, especially international trade, in today’s fast-paced world with this volume of growing international trade. Customs, as one of the most important pillars and effective organizations in the field of international trade and the main supervisor of trade, seeks to convert all its processes from the old way to electronic mode. In addition to monitoring foreign trade, the duty of customs is to implement the government’s economic policies. The ever-increasing increase in trade and exchange of goods has created a new challenge for customs to be able to comprehensively apply the necessary controls. According to the surveys conducted in 2012, the average time taken to complete the foreign trade process in Iran was 30 days. While the same process in Singapore and UAE was between 3 and 5 days. Iran’s customs rank was 126 among world customs in the same year by the World Bank. At the same time as the customs process is long, the volume of smuggling also increases sharply. For example, the amount of smuggling in 2012 was about 20 billion dollars. Therefore, according to the need to reduce the time of goods clearance in customs, this organization should look for a solution to speed up its monitoring and be careful in this field. For this reason, the comprehensive customs system was launched, and following the increase in security, it has also increased the range of information and made the activities more timely. This system made it possible to start the customs process before the goods entered the port, and by covering the supply chain, it ensured the reduction of the number of documents and the increase of trust and security. Expediting the provision of services and applying the necessary controls are two goals that can be said to be inconsistent, and customs must be able to achieve both goals as the guardian of borders and trusted by business owners. For this purpose, after the comparative study of the customs situation in advanced countries, as well as the study of the conventions and standards of international organizations, from the second half of 2013, he put the establishment and operation of the comprehensive customs system and cross-border trade unit window on his agenda, and finally in He unveiled it in the month of 1395. A system that has been tried to play a role in the process of foreign trade by creating information circulation and using artificial intelligence as a powerful tool. The launch of the comprehensive customs system led to 34 customs operations from the declaration to the departure of goods with 9 special features without the need to visit in person and only with the help of this system. An event that, considering the savings of tens of billions of Tomans in foreign trade, has a great impact on facilitating and smoothing the business environment and the cost of goods.
Advantages of using the comprehensive system of customs affairs
Among the advantages of setting up a comprehensive customs system are: • Saving business costs in the sense that with the use of this system, the formalities in import have been reduced from 26 days to 3 days and in export from 7 days to 1 day. For this reason, the reduction of formalities amounting to 23% of the trade value has led to saving in the foreign trade cycle. If the import of goods is assumed to be 50 billion dollars throughout the year, with a reduction of 23 days in customs formalities only in the import sector, about 10 billion dollars, that is, nearly 40 thousand billion tomans, will be saved in the import sector only. . • Daily online publication of foreign trade statistics Daily online publication of information means that as soon as the goods are loaded from the origin and move to Iran, the information about the goods will be accessible in the customs electronic system. With this, the departure and arrival of all transit goods are under the supervision of the customs and according to its schedules, and the contents of the cargo and the time of arrival at the destination are also known in advance. • Fight against drug and drug smuggling, along with developing a coherent program to fight against drug smuggling, by conducting mechanized controls based on risk management indicators and using control equipment, IMF has witnessed a 711% growth in the detection of drugs and precursors, so that According to the latest report published by the Office of Information Relations of the Asia-Pacific region, after Australia, New Zealand and Pakistan, Iran has been able to obtain the fourth rank in the most discoveries related to narcotics, psychotropic substances and all kinds of industrial precursors. • Follow-up and monitoring of violations with the launch of the electronic customs system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, many violations that have been hidden until now will be controlled and prevented. In addition, by using the comprehensive customs system, the possibility of abusing commercial cards is also eliminated. 9 new features of the comprehensive customs system • Electronic connection of the bill of lading • Smart exit door project • Launching the largest foreign trade information bank • Receiving inspection certificate through the comprehensive system of customs affairs • Beginning of electronic exchange of information between the ports and customs organization • Transit goods monitoring system • Launching the system Electronic service counter • Electronicization of controls in customs • Electronic wallet
The website address of the comprehensive system of customs affairs
According to Pars News, currently, the exchange of customs and security information is done online and the information related to the registration of orders is obtained electronically and online by the customs system from the trade system. Currently, the customs system has been connected to the ports, and since 2016, it has been possible for the port organization to view the issued Bijeks electronically at the customs. Also, with the launch of the logistics management system in all customs, the registration of the information of the carriers to enter the area has been carried out, and this action has led to the strict control and supervision of the carriers, and the selection of experts and evaluators based on risk management indicators in the system’s evaluation hall. Customs clearance is done and also the list of bales is done randomly. Creating a safe platform for information exchange in the comprehensive customs system by including a digital signature with all the devices involved in the business field, which can be tracked, has led to the creation of a healthy platform for performing customs formalities and the conditions for strict control and monitoring of the manner of performing formalities and issuing It has provided entry and clearance permits.
