Facilitating Trade:
Improving Customs Risk Management Systems
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territory of the requested Contracting Party, and the Customs procedure, if any, under which the
goods have been placed28.
As an example of mutual assistance agreement between countries is the Canada/US Smart
Border Agreement29. The agreement is signed between the United States and Canada to improve
border security, information sharing, and law enforcement co-operation between the two
countries. The Smart Border Declaration contains 30-point Action Plan. There are 4 main
sections in this declaration that are related to; the secure flow of people, secure flow of goods,
secure infrastructure and coordination and information sharing between Law Enforcement
Agencies:
Another example is Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) SWbased on the Agreement
signed in December 2005. ASEAN Member States agreed to establish and implement the ASEAN
Single Window (ASW), a gateway for exchange the data that uses the NSWs for further
dissemination of data (CA, OGAs, etc.). Currently, 4 MS (Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, and
Malaysia) are participating in the exchange of Certificate of Origin (CoO). The ASW MS adopted
the ASEAN Harmonized Customs Declaration Document (ACDD), and they are planning to start
the exchange of the ACDD by the beginning of 2018. At the same time, preparations are
performed for the exchange of the Sanitary-Phytosanitary and Fishery Certificates.
The SEED system is used in the six CAs in the Western Balkans: Albania (OIC MS), Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. The legal basis for the SEED is
represented by the bilateral:
 Customs Mutual Administrative Assistance Agreements (CMAAA); followed by the
 SEED Memorandum of Understanding (MoU);
 Protocol on electronic exchange of data (which, among other things, defines the scope
of data to be exchanged).
Recently, the six Western Balkans Customs Administrations and Moldova (who are the signing
Parties of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) Agreement) adopted the
“Additional Protocol 5 to the CEFTA Agreement30” which provides common legal base for
extension of the scope of the SEED system to include technical agencies and inspections
(Phytosanitary, Veterinary, etc.) in the data exchange.
Box 3: OIC MS participating in ASEAN SW
Three OIC MS is participating in the ASW – Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Malaysia and Indonesia are exchanging the data with other ASWMS; by the end of 2017, Brunei
will be integrated into ASW.
3.1.3 Information Exchange supporting the CRM
3.1.3.1 Risk Information Exchange
Risk information exchange is an essential part of building efficient CRM system that will enable
fast and easy-to-use ways to exchange customs control results and risk-related information
amongst CAs. In this way, CAs will be able to build their own CRM framework based on a mutual
assistance agreement to improve their border virtualization initiatives and will have up-to-date
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