The General Authority of Customs has announced its monthly statistics with over 300,000 customs declarations done in December.
In its monthly Newsletter, the GAC stated that 331,149 declarations were made in December, with 305,978 of those carried out by the air cargo customs.
Meanwhile, the maritime customs department completed 24,925 declarations in the same month, while the percentage of customs declarations released in an hour was 99 percent.
In the report, India maintained its position as the top exporting country, while China also remained the top import country.
The best government agency in ‘time of release’ was the Environmental Protection Reserves & Wildlife Department, with an average release time of two hours. The Department also transferred over 25,000 declarations to other government agencies.
In December, the GAC made 142 seizure reports, of which 1.775kg of heroin was the largest catch of the month.
In the Newsletter, the Customer Service Center Administrator at the GAC, Ali Ahmed Al Abduljabbar, said the Authority had completed its service automation project.
Al Abduljabbar said the project was done to provide fast and distinctive service to customers.
He said the Authority accelerated the completion project considering the partial closure and social distancing measures applied by Qatar due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to him, the services were divided into three packages.
The first package included the most requested services: registering commercial companies, adding commercial companies’ roles, and paying customs fines. It was launched on the Al Nadeeb system last May.
The second package includes two services about customs procedures related to vehicles in Qatar, which are the issuance of a vehicle movement certificate and the registration of imported vehicles.
The third package includes the services related to customs clearance agencies and brokers, added to the Al Nadeeb system last November.
This package renews the customs clearance license, adds the customs clearance agent/representative, renews the customs broker/representative card, transfers the customs broker/delegate to another clearance company, and transfers the customs agent/representative to another port.
Al Abduljabbar stressed that the GAC is working to continuously “develop its services to keep pace with the technical development being witnessed at all levels.”
He noted many benefits in converting paper services into electronic services that come within the “customs without paper” project, like linking government agencies easily, conducting regular and simplified operations during transactions, and reducing time and effort on the user.
