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DOHA: The General Authority of Customs (GAC) announced that it has accomplished over 575,000 customs declarations through the ports of Qatar during September 2024.
The Customs newsletter for October 2024 revealed the most prominent statistics of customs work during September this year. Nearly 575,567 declarations were registered with airports bagging 541,699 completed data. The data for sea and land ports stood at 18,502 and 15,318 respectively.
This shows a surge of 138 percent on a year-on-year basis as 241,681 customs declarations were recorded in September last year.
The GAC released 78.82 percent of its data within an hour. The overall customs declarations in the custom ports, and those transferred from the authority to government entities amounted to 22,972 declarations during September 2024 which represents 4 percent of the total. Meanwhile the transactions completed at the Customer Service Center is 2031.
According to the Authority’s statistics for September 2024, the top importing country was China, while the top exporting country was India.
In September, the GAC recorded 447 seizures as the Ministry of Public Health (Ports Health and Food Control Department) emerged as the best government entity in terms of release time, completing its processing within 6.10 hours. The largest seizure during the month was narcotic substance shabu which was 4,300 grams.
According to the data on GAC’s website, the number of Al Nadeeb users totalled 2,749, while 420 seizure reports were registered, and the customer service center received 1,122 transactions in October 2024. GAC has achieved several achievements through its work related to securing the entry of passengers and goods, facilitating trade exchange with the countries, implementing the projects and programmes that varies between developing and enhancing the human, procedural and technical aspects or at the level of cooperation between the customs and other entities inside and outside the country.
