Improving Customs Transit Systems
In the Islamic Countries
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higher than that of maritime countries, their own costs to import regarding border compliance
is much less than the same costs for maritime countries. This way, most of the landlocked
countries try to buffer the downside of being landlocked by improving the efficiency of their own
BCPs.
This study remotely examined the three regional CTR systems, namely the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Computerized Transit System (ACTS), Central and Southern
America International Goods in Transit (TIM) system, and European Union New Computerised
Transit System (NCTS) as global best examples. As the analysis of the three global cases
presents, the implementation of the CTR to the point where they are today has been a laborious
task for all of those countries considered to be advanced in the CTR concept. This results from
the regionalization of the transit procedures, exchange of data, single transit declaration,
guarantee management systems, and pre-arrival processing of information for riskmanagement
purposes.
However, there are many challenges that are not taken in the absence of CTR information
available. The following policy options for attention to the OIC MS will assist with their CTR
advancement for full implementation as follows:
 Full implementation of the International instruments, standards and recommendation
arising from International Organizations;
 National Legislation, Customs Code and Implementing Regulations related to CTR
should be aligned with the International standards and recommendation;
 Use of single window concept for information exchange between all national agencies
involved en route, including Customs, transport control, OGA's, police, and railways;
 Pre-arrival information disseminated to all customs offices - from the country of
departure, countries of transit (en route), and country of the destination;
 Implementation of the Authorised Economic Operator concept for the stakeholders
involved in transit;
 Goods in transit and means of transport should be subject to customs risk management;
 Guarantee management system integrated into customs declaration processing systems
and mutual acceptance of regional guarantees
 Use of GPS and RFID advanced technologies for the management of security measures,
including the security of possible customs debt.