Dominica Customs & Excise Division
Optimizing Customs Warehousing Procedures
By Ernie Boland
AW History
Attached Documents
2012
AW
Upgrade
2019
Manifest
2009
History
2012
2009
2010
2017
2019
Oracle
Upgrade
2017
Declaration
2010
Challenges
& Issues of
Current Processes
Warehousing - DutyFree Shopping
Challenges
with Current Process
Inward Declaration
Hundreds of items on the SAD
The current process requires detailed, disaggregated declarations with Product ID
Broker Assesses
declaration
High brokerage Cost to prepare SAD
Time-Consuming
Verification
Officers must manually review each product
Documentary
Check
Our officers spend excessive amounts of time verifying these detailed declarations, which affects overall efficiency
Inspection &
Reporting
Discrepancies found almost always lead to modifying the declaration
Inspection &
Reporting
Modifying declaration - A resource intensive process for large declarations
ExBond / WriteOff Declaration
Broker prepares SAD with many items (disaggregated) - Also costly
Reporting Sales
Relying on operator to assess taxes owed may lead to delays
Delays can lead to potential revenue losses and discrepancies
Risk of Revenue Loss
None existence of a compliance verification program can lead to unreported sales
Risk of Revenue Loss
Unreported sales lead to tax evasion
Proposed Solutions
Introducting: (WIM)
the
WAREHOUSING INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
module
Proposed Solutions
Reduce Brokerage Costs and Clearance Times
Grouping the products by Tariff Codes
- Reduce items on declaration
Reduce Brokerage Costs and Clearance Times
- Reduce cost of brokerage
- Faster documentary checks
Streamlined Racking Verification
Streamlined Racking Verification
- Simplified Racking
- Better verification of supplementary value calculations
- Better management of products with high duties/taxes
Real-Time Sales & Simple Reporting
Simple Sales Reporting
Duty Paid Sale -
Duty Free Sale (Local or Tourist) -
Sales return -
Change of ownership -
Straight exbond -
Concession exbond -
Warehouse transfer -
Destruction of goods -
Ensures:
Timely revenue Collection
Reduce risk of revenue loss
Enhanced Revenue Tracking
Enhanced Revenue Tracking
Automates exbond declarations based on product movement data, thereby minimizing revenue leakage and ensuring that all sales are promptly reported.
Compliance Verification
Select products which will require reporting on physical counts / examination
Systematic method of selecting products to be verified
e.g. Guarantee value (high duties),
Number of days audited,
Little to no movement
Demonstration of
the WIM Concept
Demo
Questions / Feedback
Other areas for Improvement
Other issues
1 - Post Clearance Audit PCA
2 - Offence Management
i) Intelligence
ii) Enforcement
3 - Courier Bonded goods
i) Sorting process
ii) Calculation of revenue foregone
4 - Fuel Declarations
5 - Exemptions Management
6 - Overtime Management