Doha, Qatar: The General Authority of Customs (GAC) announced that it accomplished 266,527 customs declarations through the ports of Qatar during June 2023.
In the Customs newsletter for July 2023, it revealed the most prominent customs work statistics during the month of June 2023. Nearly 266,527 declarations were registered in June of this year, with Air Cargo and Private Airports Administration bagging 228,160 completed data. The Maritime Customs Administration stood at 12,194. While the Land Customs Administration reached 6,676.
The GAC released 98 percent of its data within an hour and the overall customs declarations in the custom ports, and those transferred from the authority to government entities, amounted to 27,105 declarations during June 2023.
The USA and India remained the top import and export countries respectively. In June, the GAC recorded 223 seizures as the Ministry of Commerce and Industry – Business Development and Investment Promotion Department emerged as the best government entity in terms of release time, completing its processing within 1.16 hours.
According to data on GAC’s website, the number of Al Nadeeb users totalled 3,399 users, while 223 seizure reports were registered, and the customer service center had received 575 transactions during the same month. The number of customs declarations accomplished in the customs ports during June 2023, amounted to 267,626 declarations.
Meanwhile, in May 2023 the Customs newsletter showed 259,751 declarations, with Air Cargo and Private Airports Administration completing 219,673 data.
The Maritime Customs Administration stood at 13,262.
While the Land Customs Administration reached 7,076. The GAC released 98 percent of its data within an hour – 26,381 statements were transferred to other government agencies. It recorded 229 seizures as the Ministry of Culture emerged as the best government entity in terms of average release time, completing its processing within 4.42 hours.
GAC has achieved several achievements lately 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 , facilitating the entry of consumer products to meet local market needs, and working with its partners hand in hand to achieve steam lined movement of trade.
To improve the business environment and shorten customs procedures and facilitate the flow of goods into the country and reduce clearance costs, it offers several customs facilities such as development of the customs clearance system (Al Nadeeb), import for the purpose of re-export initiative, completing the requirements of ATA Carnet, electronic bills of lading initiative, approved economic operator program, electronic certificate of origin, electronic certification of invoices.
Customs has enhanced the services available on Al Nadeeb system through adding a fee refund service, temporary entry service, customer service, electronic and procedural integration with the Public Prosecution, in addition to the possibility of uploading and approving documents of the registration authorities electronically and stopping paper transactions.
