An electronic program guide of the prices of goods and commodities in order to speed customs clearance for imports.

In the framework of the plans of the Ministry of Finance to strengthen control o...

An electronic program guide of the prices of goods and commodities in order to speed customs clearance for imports.   In the framework of the plans of the Ministry of Finance to strengthen control of the customs outlet and anti-evasion was detected some cases of customs evasion of communications received by a limited number of embassies and the smuggling of prohibited goods for import of a number of commercial messages, said that Mr. Galal Abu ElFotouh the financial adviser to the Minister for Customs. He added that the Customs Department is currently testing the spreading of scanning devices on the containers in all Egyptian ports without the need for it to be opened with the use of such devices to activate the various ports to operate around the clock and not around two Shift as it was the case in the past in order to tighten customs controls on the smuggling . He added that the value of the customs duties and compensation due to violation letters of the embassies discovered by those devices was 11,053 million pounds and on the commercial messages about 19,258 million pounds, bringing the total value of compensatio and fees for customs evasion cases detected by the scanning devices about 30 million pounds as the total value of commercial messages irregularities about 72,706 million pounds.   On the other side, Mr. Ahmad Faraj Saudi, head of Customs Authority revealed on preparing an electronic program of goods prices to be used in reference to the discretion of customs duties where the program includes all the data and imports of goods and commodities imported from abroad to allow the query and the origin of the prices of those goods and deal sizes and classification by code, and noted that the program contains (17) field of knowledge and about 90% of the price stored on the transaction value and the margin of the up and down by 10% in accordance with Articles II and III of the GATT agreement. He added that the program, which was operated in Dekheila port during the month of August last, designed to speed the release of the goods and commodities in accordance with specification and standardization and the code of the GATT agreement and will be generalize the program during the coming period in various customs outlet. (Source: Ministry of Finance)