Faster, more efficient Customs clearance

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Faster, more efficient Customs clearance
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Faster and more efficient
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Increasing demand
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Global marketplace

• New communications technology
• Trade liberalisation
• Faster and more frequent transport
• Requires sustained levels of fast and efficient
  service

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Import Transaction Fee (ITF) - Application

• 18 (GST inclusive) payable on
• Every commercial import entry and import
  declaration for goods with a duty and/or GST
  liability of 50 or more
• Every private import declaration for goods with a
  value of 1,000 or more and with a duty and/or
  GST liability of 50 or more

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ITF - Cost recovery

• 75 percent of cost of clearance including
• monitoring compliance with tariff, rules of
  origin etc.
• analysing information to identify potential risk
  shipments
• physical inspection
• any subsequent investigations
• audits of importers compliance

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ITF - Cost recovery

• The ITF is not a tax or a duty
• The money collected is retained by Customs,
  unlike duty or GST, where the money collected
  goes directly into the consolitated fund

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ITF - Collection

• Collected at the same time as duty, GST
• Itemised on Deferred Payment Statements and Cash
  Statements
• Not noted on Customs Import Entry
• Refund if Entry is cancelled

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Deferred payment statement
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Cash statement
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ITF - E-entries

• Included with the duty and/or GST amounts shown
  on the Cleared Entry Message
• No new software is required
• New code in other information field for Private
  Entries - PVT
• Existing software can be tested

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ITF - Exemptions

• Goods with a duty and/or GST liability of less
  than 50
• Private imports under 1000 in value (for the
  persons own personal, non-commercial use and not
  for resale)

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ITF - Exemptions

• Temporary Import Entries
• Sight Entries
• Transhipment Entries
• Entries for short-shipped, short-packed or
  short-landed goods
• Amended Entries (where the original Entry has not
  been cancelled)

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Legislative changes

• Administrative Penalties
• Definition of Entry clarified to include all
  documents required to be lodged with Customs
• Clarifies legal process for imposing fines for
  errors

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Legislative changes

• Debt - Officers now able to question importers
  about whether they owe Customs any money
• Alcopops - now subject to excise and
  excise-equivalent duty
• Stolen goods - Can now be seized at point of
  export as well as import

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Increased security

• Better targeting (using advance information)
• More staff for intelligence, inspections and
  investigations
• Better facilities - new Auckland base averaging
  one container inspection per day
• New technology

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Mobile x-ray

• Greater flexibility
• Auckland and North Island regional
  ports
• South Island unit
• on order
• Greater capacity
• 74,000 packages in
• 6 months

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Partnership in risk management

• Sharing information and trust
• Securing the supply chain from start to finish
• Whole of Government approach

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Proposed amendments

• Mandatory advanced electronic reporting of
  commercial goods transactions
• Requirement on airlines, freight forwarders etc
  to supply electronic manifests