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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.

As part of its effort to facilitate trade, FR8 Logistics has successfully developed a proprietary software for the automatic uploading of DHL airway bills directly into ASYCUDA World, without any manual data capturing at all.

The Vanuatu ASYCUDA World system has now been made even easier to access by its users. Thanks to months of commitment by the Project Team to work on this initiative which will see the Vanuatu system be one of the most trusted and secured ASYCUDA World platforms in the World.