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CUSTOMS IT CONNECTIVITY Botswana/Namibia Experience
“21st Century Trade Facilitation Tools: Increasing International Competitiveness”
Phodiso Valashia & Jacqueline Tjiseseta
10th September 2012
• Trade Facilitation Landscape
• Project Background
• Connectivity Objectives
• Issues for Consideration
Outline
C H A L L E N G E D E S C R I P T I O N
Increasing Trade
Volume
- Long queues by traders
- Customs Workload
Manual data transfer
- Cumbersome / duplicate entry
- Error prone
- Slow and costly to business
Increasing Threats
(supply chain security)
- No advanced information on goods
- No cross-border sharing of compliance information
Trader Compliance - Loss of Government revenue (under-invoicing)
Interior borders - Transaction Costs
- Customs Processing Time
Trade Statistics - Unreliable trade data for Customs Management
- SACU Revenue pool
• Eliminate redundant data entry
• Reduce time and cost
• Security and privacy
• Advance information
• Accurate Trade Statistics
IT Connectivity Objectives
Legislative Framework • Exchange of information
• Electronic transactions
• Bilateral enabling framework (SADC, SACU etc)
Considerations
• State security • Trader confidentiality • Data access • Data use
Considerations
Security & Privacy
• Stakeholder involvement
• Staff training • IT maintenance • Flexibility • Expandability
Sustainability
Considerations
Asycuda ++ user mapping SAD 500 document handling Business Activity Monitoring
Asycuda ++ user mapping SAD 500 Document handling Business Activity Monitoring
Asycuda++ Server
Asycuda++ Server
Integration
Server
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