25/09/2013
At the second meeting at the East Forum 2013
Issa: Customs procedures was founded to protect society from health and security risks
Hardan: the fewer barriers to the flow of goods.. Increase commercial interchange
The second session of the Eastern Forum discussed 2013 the positive and negative effects resulting from actions taken in ports, during this meeting, entitled (procedures in ports and their contribution to business growth). The dialogue was on the importance of facilitating procedures in ports, as his Adviser General Manager Saudi customs Issa bin Abdullah Al-Essa talked (the role of customs in facilitating trade) said that Customs is: ' the appropriate instrument for supervising the entry and exit of goods traffic, modes of transport, and to Saudi Arabia to ensure that it is only the regulations applicable as well as the protection of home and society from threats to health and security '
Al-Essa said that customs and within easy glades on the containers coming expands radiation screening systems to cover all customs ports, there are approximately 88 fixed system and mobile containers and trucks and 71 detector radioactive and nuclear materials, and 793 camera for examination, adoption fees via Internet or phone banking or ATM, and glades directly to some of the goods, make the most of the conventions with a number of local and foreign actors.
Al-Essa said that work on the spatial system of the single window that contains the sites of a number of stakeholders such as Lab quality, standardization and metrology, and the food and drug administration, the animal and plant quarantine and Presidency of meteorology and environment protection, and the National Commission for wildlife conservation and development, public security, the Ministry of information, traffic management, handling companies, as well as banks entrusted with the collection of customs duties, and some private laboratories. Work is ongoing to develop programs and buildings projects in each port. The difference means of oversight such as sniffer dogs and our (295) task force the task force 150, land, and air ports of squad 18, 64 task force for marine ports.
Turning to the achievements of the Saudi customs, Saudi customs have achieved first place in the fight against fraud and counterfeiting in the year 2012, according to a report of the World Customs Organization and access (7) Customs administrations to the ISO in the second paper titled (smooth movement of goods in ports and ports and commercial growth acceleration) import and shipping Manager Colgate-Palmolive Arabic company Omar Hardan, said that the smooth movement of goods is a prerequisite and essential for any economy, because its impact All economic sectors, particularly productive.
Also he mentioned a number of negative effects of the weak flow of movement of goods, including the delayed receipt of goods, raising the cost and harm consumers through higher prices for goods, and damage to goods caused by air temperature, especially food and medical apparatus, exposing the small traders for bankruptcy as a result of heavy losses, and factories for the production of raw materials, corruption and high transport costs which affect the profits of producers and traders. Division of the commercial market in the Kingdom and jeopardizing trade relations to suppliers and exporters for the rest of the world is seriously damaged, and damage to productive processes associated with imported raw materials. '. He said: ' the fewer obstacles ... the more trade increasing'.
