COVID-19 update: Vanuatu is currently Covid-free. However, international travel restrictions are in place at the border. Welcome to the Vanuatu Department of Customs and Inland Revenue (DCIR) Newsroom. This section includes a wide variety of news from DCIR including media releases and publications.
Under authority conferred by the Disaster Risk Management Act no.23 of 2019, the Hon. Bruno Tau Leingkon, Minister responsible for Meteorology, Geological Hazards and Climate Change, has issued Instrument of Directions to Government Agencies Relating to Covid-19 (Amendment) Order no.2 of 2021.
This directs that, The Director stated, "I implement measures associated with the Governments Covid-19 stimulus package announced in 2020."
Customs public sale will only be available on this website by placing online orders. Items will be sold on a first-come-first-serve basis. No reservations. The terms of sale are on a where-is-as-is basis.
Vanuatu has been a member of the World Customs Organization (WCO) since 17th November 2009 and has been a Contracting Party to the Harmonized System (HS) Convention.
Do you usually submit applications for import permits or export certificates to Biosecurity Vanuatu?
If so, you may be eligible to attend the Biosecurity SPS Module Training. Click here to download the training registration form.
The Honorable Minister of Finance, Gaetan Pikioune signed an agreement with DataTorque on Thursday this week at the Reserve Bank conference room.
Just over a year ago, BRED Bank Management approached Customs to consider using its e-Commerce platform.
The Vanuatu Transnational Crime Unit (TCU) at the Vanuatu Police Force now has direct access to real-time data on the Passenger Processing Module in ASYCUDA.
Examination of cargo at import and export is a crucial part of Customs operations, both for the purpose of protecting Government revenue and our borders. Examinations can be done either at the Ports or at Traders’ premises.
Did you know that ever since Vanuatu started collecting visitors data, this process was all done manually by capturing the details of individual passenger cards?
To ensure goods are well accounted for under Customs control, Importers can only take custody of their imported goods provided that a Customs Release Order or a Container Pass, authorizing the release of the goods, is presented to the Cargo Handlers at our ports of entries.
As a border law enforcement agency, who also deals with ensuring compliance with trade rules and collection of duties, Vanuatu Customs has always struggled with the consistent application of relevant laws and the ease of applying compliance measures nationally to improve voluntary compliance.
On the 23rd of June 2018 the Honorable Minister for Finance, and Economic Management, Hon. Gaetan Pikioune (MP), signed the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in tax matters.
Despite being one of the latest two countries to implement ASYCUDA World in the Pacific region, Vanuatu accepted the request to deliver the first ever regional ASYCUDA World Functional Training.
Making a substantial investment in any Project of a magnitude such as that of the ASYCUDA World Project, means the Vanuatu Government needs to see immediate and tangible results of the direct benefit of its investment.
Under the Import Duties Act, Part 3, certain Government Authorities (OGA’s) are responsible to grant duty concession to their respective stakeholders.
They say things move slowly with “island time” in the Pacific, however the Customs Division of the Department of Customs and Inland Revenue with its impressive track record of reform and modernization has blown this hackneyed assumption out of the water.
