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We will like to inform you about our INTENSIVE TRAINING ON e-FORM M, IMPORT TRADE REGULATION AND PROCESSES IN NIGERIA.

Special Feature: 

A detailed explanation of the NEW Import Guidelines (From Federal Ministry of Finance)

RAR to PAAR: the processes, features and benefit of PAAR

Practical Demonstration the Immense benefits of Nigerian Trade Hub Portal (Developed by Customs)

This training will hold in two locations in the month of January 2014 and these include Lagos (January 08, 2014) and Abuja (January 15, 2014). 

Time: 9.00am

Training Fee: N20,000

OVERVIEW OF NCS PAAR

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF PAAR?

PAAR – is an acronym for
P- Pre
A- Arrival
A- Assessment
R- Report

The PAAR system is an online application designed and developed by the Nigeria Customs Service for the generation of the PAAR.

The PAAR is a document generated by the newly developed Nigeria Customs Service PAAR system to replace Risk Assessment Report (RAR) issued by the Service Providers at the end of Service providers’ contract by December 1st 2013.

PAAR KEY FEATURES
    Digitalization of Import Documentation (based on UN-ADS)
    Expert Tariff Classification Tool (HS Convention)
    Assessment of Customs Value (WTO-ACV)
    Import Export Commodity Database (IECD)
    Detail Intelligent Risk Configuration encompassing (OGAs)
    Issuance of Pre-Arrival Assessment Report (PAAR) WCO Revised Kyoto
    SMS Alert integration service
    Confirmation of Transaction value by the Supplier
    Flagging up of High Risk Commodities (WCO-GHRI)
    Fast Tracking of Trusted Traders (AEO)
    3rd Party Pricing Data

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PAAR AND THE RAR
1.       PAAR is generated by the Nigeria Customs Service for Nigeria Customs Service use; whereas RAR was generated and issued by the service provider as an advisory report to NCS.
2.       PAAR is to be generated within 6 hours for a compliant trader, which is in conformity with the Federal Government’s vision of achieving 24 hour clearance at the port; whereas with the RAR this was not possible.
3.       The PAAR automatically recognizes an importer who is consistently compliant and categorizes such importer as an Authorized Economy Operator (AEO) i.e. trusted trader once he is consistently compliant thereby enabling such a trader speedy clearance at the ports; the RAR did not have such a tool.
4.       The PAAR has a built-in intuitive classification tool which makes product classification easy and accurate; this feature is not present in the RAR.
5.       The PAAR system notifies importer when their documents are approved or rejected.
6.       PAAR is complimented by the Classification Tool in the Nigeria Trade Hub – www.nigeriatradehub.gov.ng an online tool available to all traders to ensure accurate classification at source.

WHY IS THE RAR BEEN REPLACED WITH THE PAAR?
After careful evaluation and analysis of the current RAR regime, gaps where identified. Management of NCS decided to replace RAR with PAAR due to the following reasons;
 

The Customs Challenge
The need to adopt global best practices as a core objective of NCS modernization agenda.
The need to eliminate/minimize all the identified gaps in the current RAR regime.
Advance electronic processing of information facilitates the use of risk management systems;
Reduced delays at border crossings/entry points;
Reduced release time – Fast or immediate release is of paramount importance to traders due to the time saved; and
Saving storage and insurance fees – Such fees will be reduced as a direct consequence of pre-arrival clearance.


Some Countries that have adopted and implemented similar applications includes;
    USA-  Pre-Arrival Processing System (PAPS)
    Canada- (Pre-Arrival Review System (PARS)

HOW IS THE PAAR COMPLYING WITH INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES AND STANDARD?
Nigeria, as a signatory to WCO international Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, must have this underpinning the application of the Harmonized System.

The NCS PAAR provides a standard format for classifying goods. The Common External Tariff Concordance has been linked to the NCS PAAR for easy navigation and accurate classification
The Concordance contains a complete list of HS code and serves as an integrated search engine in order to facilitate  accurate classification of goods
NCS PAAR provides the support-base for Valuation Risk Assessment in strict compliance with WTO Agreement on Customs Valuation

Commodities sensitive from valuation angle are identified and reviewed as a vital factor to:
    Accurate assessment of duties
    Prevention of capital flight
    Capturing of correct trade data for national planning.

NCS PAAR  possesses built-in intelligent components that can be useful for
Intelligence reporting is a critical aspect of the Clearance Procedure particularly with the current security challenges in the country
Intelligence supplied by Customs Intelligence Unit (CIU), System Audit, SSS, NIA, Shipping Companies, etc is utilised in identifying high risk shipments for relevant timely intervention.
The Intelligence Component of NCS PAAR will facilitate the management of Intelligence data across multiple agencies as part of Integrated Risk Management Approach

THE RULING CENTRE
The PAAR Application System is complimented by a Ruling Centre located at the NCS Headquarters, Abuja. The Ruling Centre is manned by competent NCS officers/operators assuming the following system based roles:

•             Administrators of NCS-PAAR application
•             Scrutiny Officers
•             Final Document Verification Officers
•             Valuation and Classification Officers
•             Pre-Arrival Assessment Report Officers
•             Risk Profiler Officers

The Commercial Banks also have system based roles listed below, located at their premises:

•             Administrators of Commercial Banks
•             Staff at Commercial Banks

NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE ISSUES FIRST PAAR

Less than 24 hours after the take over of Destination Inspection Scheme, the Ruling Centre of the Nigeria Customs Service has issued the first Pre Arrival Assessment Report (PAAR). The document which replaces the Risk Assessment Report issued by erstwhile Service Providers is a mandatory requirement for imports into Nigeria.

The issuance of the first PAAR was announced by the Comptroller- General of Customs, Dikko Inde Abdullahi at a Town Hall meeting held with Traders in Lagos to sensitize them on the new scheme. He told the cheering crowd that the expeditious issuance of the document is indicative of the level of preparedness of the Nigeria Customs Service to handle the scheme.

"we have invested a lot preparing for this feat. Service Providers took a minimum of 5 working days to issue their RAR. We convinced Government that we can produce the replacement in 6 hours. Now we have achieved that in less than an hour", the Comptroller-General told the Traders.

According to the Updates released from the Customs Ruling Centre in Abuja, the name of the historic PAAR's Importer/Beneficiary was given as WAAZ ULTIMATE GLOBAL LINK Limited of #10 Herbert Macaulay Street, Yaba Lagos. It was numbered CN20130017589/001.

The document covers an importation of a 40-foot Container of Children Educational toys and glass cup procured from Hong Kong China.

Agent to the Importer, Alhaji Usman Baba expressed his joy that his Final Documents churned out the First ever PAAR from the Ruling Centre. Alhaji Baba told Journalists in Lagos that he had some apprehensions when submitting the documents.

" it was the first working day , and many of us thought Customs will find it difficult coping with the rush. I was surprised when I got a call from Abuja that my PAAR was ready. Since the consignment was routed to Green, it means 48-Hour clearance is possible under the new system", Alhaji Baba declared.

He said he is in touch with the Importer, who has promised to ensure immediate payment of the Customs duty.

Following the expiration of the Contracts for operation of Destination Inspection by Service Providers, the Federal Government of Nigeria had directed an immediate take over of the scheme by the Nigeria Customs Service. Components of the scheme taken over by Customs include management of Scanning operations in designated Ports, airports and Border stations in Nigeria.


SIGNED
Wale Adeniyi
Public Relations Officer,
For:Comptroller-General of Customs.

https://www.customs.gov.ng/Publications/news_results.php?NewsID=186

NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE INTRODUCES NEW TRADE PORTAL

The Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Alhaji Inde Dikko Abdullahi has said the service has provided two central computers for traders in Balogun market trade fair complex.

The computers, which are to serve as enlightenment tools to aid the understanding of a new Customs regime known as the Nigerian Trade Hub, were donated at the ultra-modern markets yesterday in Lagos.

The NCS in conjunction with the Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had taken a bold step to develop interactive trade portals for the facilitation of trade, decongestion of the ports and transparency in business transactions in Nigeria.

Speaking at a sensitisation forum to educate the public on the introduction of its twin trade portals known as the Nigerian Trade Hub (NTH) and the Pre-Arrival Assessment Report (PAAR), NCS boss said it was aware it needed to transcend higher in facilitating trade in accordance with international best practices.

The NTH is an interactive and intelligent tool used by importers and exporters to understand rules of importation, classification of commodities, rates of duties, freight advice, and government statutory agencies responsible for licensing, currency exchange rates, and market place advertising to showcase goods available in Nigeria.

Any lawful trade that must be carried out at the cross borders must be done in accordance with the prerequisites of NTH.

The PAAR on the other hand warehouses information needed in international trade, whereas the NTH provides a counterpart local information portal for Nigerian businesses, including business registry that shows the names, addresses and telephone contacts of licensed agents, terminal operators.

In the same vein, the NTH is a compendium that gives a wide range of information about NCS formalities with easy-to-understand composite trade guide.

NCS have trained 300 hundred officers in the past one year. The officers are to work on rotational bases to control the trade portals and provide assistance through their hot lines to the public.

It is believed that upon submitting the correct information on commodities the system can generate PAAR, within six hours.

Abdullahi maintained that NCS has the capability to handle the new regime as it has qualified personnel to ensure power sustainability, efficient logistics and uninterrupted communications systems.

According to the NCS Comptroller General, the service boasts of high capacity generators to tackle power outage. The provision of batteries reinforces the idea and the setting of the internet on off-line mode makes the regime supreme to internet failure and non-connectivity. There is also a move from manual operations to seamless operations all embedded in the platform.

At the meeting, stakeholders raised the question of dynamism and change in government policies. It is believed that PAAR and NTH would not be static but dynamic creating room for updates and improvements that might arise through government agencies such as NAFDAC, SON who might want to re-introduce regulatory policies in the future.

Abdullahi who was accompanied on the visit by the top echelon of the service assured stakeholders especially importers and exporters that NCS has enough men and officers that have also been trained to take over from Scanning Service Providers (SSPs) who verify goods entering or departing the ports.

He added that the officers now have hands-on experience on how to operate scanners at ports of arrival, having understudied the system under the SSPs namely, Cotecna, Global Scan.

The SSPs who have worked with the NCS for over 30 years were alleged to have not provided reliable scanners as some of the 21 scanners supplied in 7 years most of them were obsolete. Places like Warri, Illorin and Borno were never supplied of such equipment.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/ncs-introduces-new-trade-portals/166005/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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