Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has held a training workshop for operators in the freight forwarding industry aimed at promoting efficiency and reduces errors in custom clearance and registration.
The training was as well to enhance their performances when duty calls while improving relationship with clients, as they develop respect and tolerance with each other.
The workshop, under the auspices of the Customs Division of the GRA brought together managers and executives of the industry to acquaint themselves with modern international customs clearance standards which have become crucial due to many complaints by importers about delays in clearing goods.
Mr. Gottfried Djannie, Principal Collector, Customs Division, GRA making a presentation in Accra on the custom classification said: “As stakeholders in the customs clearance process, you are partners to Customs, in the overall success of its operations.
“Your success is the success of customs and your failure is the failure of customs.”
He explained that classification as carried on by experts within the World Customs Organisation and the World Trade Organisation are made of member states across the world with a total number standing at 206 countries.
“The experts exercise periodic review of the classification process. Each member country determines the rate of taxes to be collected on its goods imported or exported.
“The combination of Harminised community index and the scheduled of tariff rate, provides a very important tool for customs clearance processes.”
Mr. Samuel Eduah, Principal Collector, Customs Division said to ensure that values quoted for imported and exported goods are reasonable, authentic and acceptable, customs administration worldwide demand that all imports are covered by commercial invoices.
“We realized that most of the custom house agents lack the requisite training in business transactions and customs proceedings,” he said.
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