Customs and Trade Facilitation. Article 75
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Customs and Trade Facilitation. Article 6.1
Customs and Trade Facilitation. 1. The Parties shall share experiences and examine possibilities for simplifying import, export and other customs procedures, ensure transparency of customs and trade regulations, develop customs cooperation and effective mutual administrative assistance mechanisms, and also seek convergence of views and joint action in the context of relevant international initiatives including trade facilitation. The Parties will pay special attention to increasing the security and safety dimension of international trade, to ensuring an effective and efficient customs enforcement of intellectual property rights, and to ensuring a balanced approach between trade facilitation, and the fight against fraud and irregularities.
Customs and Trade Facilitation. The agreement is positive for traders from both sides as it goes further than the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement of 2017. It provides enhanced rules of good governance for custom procedures and high levels of transparency. Business will be properly consulted prior to the adoption of new rules. The rules in force will be reviewed regularly to meet the needs of business and reduce red tape. Moreover, the EU and Mercosur will undertake to apply modern, and whenever possible, automated procedures for the efficient and expedited release of goods. The agreement recognises the importance of customs and trade facilitation in trade relations and in the evolving global trading environment. The chapter aims to boost EU- Mercosur trade by providing enhanced rules of good governance for customs procedures. The agreed text includes provisions resulting in maximum transparency, consultation of business prior to the adoption of new rules, streamlining of procedures, regular reviews of the rules in force with a view to meeting the needs of business, reducing red tape, and speeding up clearance – all the while ensuring enforcement. The EU and Mercosur will apply modern, and whenever possible, automated procedures for the efficient and expedited release of goods, resorting to risk management and pre- arrival sending of documentation in order to speed up clearance. Parties will have the possibility to develop joint initiatives including technical assistance, capacity building and measures to provide effective services to the business community. The agreement allows for cooperation in establishing mutual recognition of Authorised Economic Operator programmes, if they are compatible and based on equivalent criteria and benefits. In this area, the agreement goes beyond the WTO TFA. This is the case for consultation of business, transparency or measures applying to goods re-entering after repair. The detailed provisions ensure maximum transparency and give traders and the public access to relevant information on customs legislation and procedures. Stakeholders will have an opportunity to comment on new customs-related initiatives before their adoption.
Customs and Trade Facilitation. This Chapter seeks to minimise the administrative burden of importing through the use of technology and greater transparency, and common procedures and approaches. These provisions complement the commitments which both Canada and the EU have already made through their membership of the WTO and the World Customs Organisation (WCO). These measures can be copied over directly – assuming that the parties do not agree to even more relaxed provisions. Special arrangements for the Irish border issue would be incorporated as either an Annex, or more likely a Protocol. 7.
Customs and Trade Facilitation. Definition of Trade Facilitation "Trade facilitation" is the name given to measures that will simplify and modernise import, export and transit requirements and procedures, in particular with respect to customs.
Customs and Trade Facilitation. Except as otherwise provided for in this Annex, with respect to trade facilitation, the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation shall apply and is hereby incorporated and made part of the Agreement, mutatis mutandis.
Customs and Trade Facilitation. Article 117: Objectives
Customs and Trade Facilitation. Establishment in most ASEAN Member Countries (AMCs) of an improved system of customs clearance and a transit regime to enhance economic competitiveness in international transactions in line with the requirements of the VAP.
