CUSTOMS IT CONNECTIVITY Botswana/Namibia Experience

“21st Century Trade Facilitation Tools: Increasing International Competitiveness”

Phodiso Valashia & Jacqueline Tjiseseta

10th September 2012

• Trade Facilitation Landscape

• Project Background

• Connectivity Objectives

• Issues for Consideration

Outline

C H A L L E N G E D E S C R I P T I O N

Increasing Trade

Volume

- Long queues by traders

- Customs Workload

Manual data transfer

- Cumbersome / duplicate entry

- Error prone

- Slow and costly to business

Increasing Threats

(supply chain security)

- No advanced information on goods

- No cross-border sharing of compliance information

Trader Compliance - Loss of Government revenue (under-invoicing)

Interior borders - Transaction Costs

- Customs Processing Time

Trade Statistics - Unreliable trade data for Customs Management

- SACU Revenue pool

Microsoft

TKC

• Eliminate redundant data entry

• Reduce time and cost

• Security and privacy

• Advance information

• Accurate Trade Statistics

IT Connectivity Objectives

Legislative Framework • Exchange of information

• Electronic transactions

• Bilateral enabling framework (SADC, SACU etc)

Considerations

• State security • Trader confidentiality • Data access • Data use

Considerations

Security & Privacy

• Stakeholder involvement

• Staff training • IT maintenance • Flexibility • Expandability

Sustainability

Considerations

• Awareness • Testing and training • Monitoring • Evaluation and handover

Status & Next Steps

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