(MENAFN- The Peninsula)
Deepak John
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The Peninsula
Doha, Qatar: The General Authority of customs (GAC) has announced that it accomplished 433,735 customs declarations through the ports of Qatar during May 2024. The Customs newsletter for June 2024 revealed the most prominent statistics of customs work during the month of May this year.
Nearly 433,735 declarations were registered in last month, with Air Cargo bagging 197,663 completed data. The Maritime Customs Administration stood at 9,791, while the Land Customs Administration reached 7,522.
The GAC released 99 percent of its data within an hour, and the overall customs declarations in the customs ports and those transferred from the authority to government entities amounted to 28,979 declarations during May 2024. The USA and India remained the top import and export countries, respectively.
In May, the GAC recorded 419 seizures as the Ministry of Municipality Fisheries Department emerged as the best government entity in terms of release time, completing its processing within 0.46 hours. The largest seizure during the month was narcotic substance marijuana, which was 13,800 grams.
According to data on GAC's website, the number of Al Nadeeb users totaled 3,138, while 418 seizure reports were registered, and the customer service center had received 505 transactions during May 2024.
The National Committee for the Customs Clearance System and Cross-Border Trade Facilitation continues its periodic meetings to discuss everything related to import and export operations in the country, headed by the General Authority of Customs and with the participation of representatives of several government and private agencies related to the movement of trade.
The tasks of the 'The National Committee for the Customs Clearance System and Cross-Border Trade Facilitation' focus on facilitating trade exchange between the State of Qatar and all countries worldwide by seeking to simplify customs procedures and non-customs restrictions at ports, addressing obstacles facing import and export operations, and working to solve and address them in an optimal manner to meet the continuous needs of the local market.
The committee also discusses enhancing fieldwork mechanisms to serve the interests of trade movement and trying to adapt to the international changes related to this field in a way that is useful in supporting the national economy.
GAC has achieved several achievements through its work related to securing the entry of passengers and goods, facilitating trade exchange with the countries, implementing the projects and programmes that vary 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.
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