7 th Edition of the International Single Window Conference 18 th September 2019
Background 1. Project started: June 2015 The Article 10 (4) of the Bali Ministerial decision on the 2. Implemented Agencies: 16 Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) requires WTO members to MDAs under phase 1 establish a single window system 3. Remaining Agency: 14 that enables traders to submit required information and timely 4. Lead Agency: URA receive feedback through a single entry point connecting the 5. Coordinating Min: MTIC participating authorities or agencies
Current status Interface with agencies 1. Taxpayers Registration 2. TIN and HS Validation 3. Payment 4. Risk Profile list 5. Receiving approved permits 6. Permits are sent to ASYCUDA World for writing off; 7. UeSW sends inspection requests 8. UeSW receives inspection result and inform Customs to release the consignment
Impact on Exports Results Sanitary & Phytosanitary Predictable Business Process Certificate issuance: Process- Issuance of Permits Enforce Compliance • Animal 1,402 Improved Quality of all Exports • Crop 7,034 and Imports • Fish 3,063 Private sector saved Over $85,966 (from 63,615 PCO Total 11,499 issued in 2018) Preferential Certificates of Origin - Facilitate export to EAC countries Country Number Coffee export permits - 36,567 permit issued Kenya 30,673 Rwanda 25,483 Burundi 2,470 Tanzania 2,192 Others 8,838 Total 69,656
Impact on Imports Faster Clearance of Cargo – Advance e- • Import of Agriculture and Animal Manifest products More accurate information into Gov • Facilitate issuance of import • Systems permit processed by other Gov Professionalization of Clearing firms -e- • Agencies; authorization clearing firms Simply compliance control in • Reduced Human contacts- Efficiency • Customs; Reduced cost of doing business- • Quality of export improved movement of People and Documents • Total of 1,080 e-manifest received since • November 2018. Animal Crop Fish Total 228 1,581 90 1,899 Import of Drug Protection the society from • harmful products, UeSW enhanced control of drugs importation. Import Export Total 14,224 1,400
Phase II 1. Additional agencies 2. Single Transactional Portal 3. Commodity Based Application
Singe Transaction Portals
Commodity Based Application Table 15. Commodities regulated more than one agencies Commodity based application is an Commodity Intervening Requirements intelligence-based agencies application on some Coffee UCDA Export Permit identified commodities where a trader shall only MAAIF Phytosanitary certificate select specific commodity Cotton CDO Export Permit to be imported or exported. Only one form is filled and MAAIF Phytosanitary certificate submitted. UeSW system in turn, filters and dispatches URA Preferential Certificate of relevant information to origin respective intervening Maize Fumigation Firms Certificate of fumigation agencies. Applicant is notified about every action MAAIF Phytosanitary certificate taken by each agency. URA Preferential Certificate of origin
Challenge and opportunities 1. Being land locked, it creates an extra costs in logistics to move container from the port of entry to the final destination – G2B initiatives (AEO Program), B2B(Logistics Platform - transport, logistics and the distribution).
Challenge and opportunities Cont’d Airport Community Management System Project 2. The alternative to maritime transport (ACM) consists to air transport that is still expensive and most of cases not affordable – Airport Community
Challenges and opportunities Cont’d 3. Traders were not able to trace their cargo shipping status. This created number of challenges between traders and transporters. Through UeSW system, traders can now trace port clearance process and all movement along the corridor through RECTS introduced since 2015.
Challenges and opportunities Cont’d 4. Trade barriers across the Northern corridor (Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya) in the form of weighbridges, police roadblocks and border crossings. Uganda implemented a system to report NTBs and real time intervention is coordinated at MTIC and Traders Information Portal that is linked with UeSW system provide guidance on regulatory requirements
Challenges and opportunities Cont’d 5. One Stop Border posts for main entry and exit points. All services can be performed through these posts since UeSW that is connecting all Government Agencies can perform their verification and certification required through UeSW system. (Border crossing time reduced from 72 hours to less than 6 hours)
Conclusion
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