Facilitating Trade:
Improving Customs Risk Management Systems
In the OIC Member States
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Although the staffing numbers need to be put in the context of the overall size of CA and trade
volume of the country, running an efficient CRM including all stages of the cycle with less than
10 staff is very challenging. In fact in these OIC MS the strategic commitment to CRM did not
translate into adequate resources, putting the achievement of the strategic goal at risk. Four of
the 16 surveyed OIC MS reporting training gaps of their Staff working on CRM resents
the results of the survey;
Table 20: Staff members assigned to the CRM function
20. How many staff members are assigned to the risk management function
Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent
Less or equal to 10 5 31.2 41.7 41.7
from 11 to 50 6 37.5 50.0 91.7
More than 50 1 6.3 8.3 100.0
Total 10 75.0 100.0
Missing 4 25.0
16 100.0
Author’s compilation based on survey responses
4.3.2.3 Selectivity
After the risk profiles and indicators are developed, analyzed and evaluated, targeting and
selectivity are performed by the selectivity module of CDPS (or ICRM) system. As result of the
selectivity process, the customs declarations are routed to a particular channel. The specific
measures of control or combination of different measures for each identified risk are associated
with each risk profile leading the customs control.
In total, 8 OIC MS CAs (Ivory Coast, Jordan, Nigeria, Palestine, Indonesia, Togo, Morocco, and
Albania) provided data on targeting and selectivity. The present the 2014-2016
average of the targeting and selectivity on green, yellow, red, orange and blue channel.
Table 21: OIC MS Targeting and Selectivity by channel
Ivory
Coast
Jordan Nigeria
Palestin
e
Indonesia Togo Morocco Albania
Green
Channel
34.86% 28.78% 5.83% 81.21% 54.20% 13.32% 0.00% 1.23%
Yellow
Channel
5.52% 33.93% 10.65% 9.39% 21.03% 28.15% 84.86% 82.09%
Red
Channel
55.02% 37.28% 81.52% 9.39% 9.55% 52.36% 15.14% 10.13%
Orange
Channel
4.06% 0.00% 1.99% 0.00% 0.30% 0.00% 0.00% 6.11%
Blue
Channel
0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 14.92% 6.18% 0.00% 0.00%
Author’s compilation based on the CRM Survey results