Customs Modernization and Reform

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Customs Modernization and Reform
The 3 Pillars
Leonardo Sicard Abad
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POLITICAL WILL
SOLID AND DYNAMIC LEGAL BASES
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
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POLITICAL WILL
SOLID AND DYNAMIC LEGAL BASES
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
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POLITICAL WILL
STATE
ASSIMILATION IMPORTANCE OF CUSTOMS
UNDERSTANDING SCOPE CUSTOMS REFORM
DECISION TO MODERNIZE AND REFORM
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ASSIMILATION IMPORTANCE OF CUSTOMS

• Increase of the competitiveness
• Foreign Insvestment
• increase of the attractiveness of the country
• Incentive to new free trade agreements
• Increase of the foreign trade operations and
  currency flow.

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DECISION TO MODERNIZE AND REFORM
Budget
Inmediate investments
Administrative reform
Continuity

• Information
• Automatization
• Laboratories
• Training

Customs independence
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POLITICAL WILL
SOLID AND DYNAMIC LEGAL BASES
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
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LEGAL BASES
SOLID
DYNAMIC
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SOLIDITY
LEGAL SECURITY
PERMANENCE IN THE TIME
MUTUAL AGREEMENT
WILL OF ALL THE SECTORS
POLITICAL IMMUNITY AND PREVALENCE OF THE INTEREST
OF THE COMMUNITY
CLEAR AND PREDICTABLE PRINCIPLES
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DYNAMISM
COHERENE TO INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES
INMEDIATE REACTION TO CHANGE
COMERCIO INTERNACIONAL ES UNA DISCIPLINA CAMBIANTE
A SINGLE LANGUAGE SPOKEN TO THE WORLD
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How to assure solidity and dynamism of the
Customs regulation?
Binding international commitments

• Amend to KYOTO
• Just a guide
• Not current
• Requires 40 countries

• DOHA
• Currently negotiating
• Countries must get
• concrete commitments

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POLITICAL WILL
SOLID AND DYNAMIC LEGAL BASES
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
TWO KINDS
ACADEMIC-POLITIC
ECONOMIC
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ACADEMIC -POLITIC
Vital to maintain a coherence of international
practices
TRAINING
etc.
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ECONOMIC
MANIFESTATIONS
TRAINING
EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
LABORATORIES
CONSULTING
MUTUAL INTEREST
INTEREST OF COMMUNITY
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MODERNIZATION AND CUSTOMS REFORM
MEASURE OF SUCCESS
CONTINUITY
RESULTS
POLITICAL SUPPORT
FINANCING
HOW?
RESPETO A LOS 3 PILARES