New Customs' Tariff Enters Into Force, Fake Importers To Face Tight Control

New customs’ tariff comes into force officially on Thursday, and it includes 10 digits instead of 8 to allow the identification of the imported product and its domestic source to accurately apply the appropriate tariff, and will also allow putting an end to the false statements, and tightening the noose on importers and manipulators.

In this context, the General Manager of Customs, Kaddour Ben Taher, told Echorouk on Thursday, on the sidelines of the special information day on “The New Customs’ Tariff,” that the new tariff, which went from 6126 tariff identifiable modes to nearly 16,000, with an increase of 260%, falls within the general government policy relating to the diversification of the national product and encouraging it outside the hydrocarbons sector.

“That mechanism will contribute to the foreign trade statistics, and will also allow the accurate containment of the imported and domestic products, through more and exclusive details for a list of products and exported goods.”

“New tariff would frame the foreign trade and protect the national economy.”

According to the Customs’ General Manager, the new tariff fit into the Customs’ Strategic Plan 2016 -2019, which includes ten measures, including the reorganization of the customs administration at the central and regional levels, and re-evaluation of the conduct of human resources, professional and social conditions of the customs’ officers, strengthening the means of monitoring, along with the framework of reviewing the customs procedures and upgrading customs’ facilities, with the development of technologies of advertising, communication and relationships with the surrounding system, and intensifying the exchange of information and experience with the state institutions in charge of monitoring.

For his part, vie-director of the customs’ tariff and origin of the goods at the Customs’ General Manager, Mourad Ammi, told Echorouk, that the customs’ tariff is a symbol that is used to identify the product for the operators of Foreign Trade, its nature, type and purpose of its use … etc, and determining the applicable duties and rights of customs, and it is mainly used for importing products and for the application of customs” rights.