Improving Customs Transit Systems

In the Islamic Countries

2) This MRN is listed on the Transit Accompanying Document (TAD), together with a bar

code;

3) Guarantee system includes options for a comprehensive guarantee (multiple-use,

revolving facility), as well as the waiver of guarantee – especially attractive for small

businesses;

4) National Transit Coordinators are appointed in each country, and their names,

institutional affiliation and contact information are listed in the Transit Manual;

5) Further simplifications are available, for example, for authorized consignors, who may

be authorized to start the transit from their premises, a port or airport or other approved

place such as a warehouse, Designated Export Place (DEP), Enhanced Remote Transit

Shed (ERTS) or another temporary storage facility) without the need to present the goods

and corresponding documents to the office of departure

Future Legal Framework

- Enabling a legal framework is a crucial element for simplifying the

CTR, which includes both a framework for the use of a regulatory and procedural framework

that has been streamlined and simplified among the partner countries and legal basis for single

transit declaration. Going paperless has a significant impact on cutting down transit time and

administrative expenses. Supporting a paperless environment is not difficult from a

technological point of view but is often limited for legal and procedural reasons.

The key for the future will be a universal acceptance of e-signature, e-commerce, and e-Customs

legal instruments in all OIC Member States. Legal validity of electronic signatures must be

accepted in practice, across the borders, in order to make paper obsolete and eventually only a

back-up solution.

Many transit initiatives failed to render cross-border procedures paperless, due to the lack of a

legal framework and resistance, namely in Other Government Agencies (OGAs). The duplication

of digital and paper processes did not deliver the expected benefits and limit opportunities for

the transit procedure and for cross-border data exchange. There is now a strong driver and

initiatives towards creating the necessary legal foundation for paperless national and cross-

border trade. The integration of commercial and regulatory transport and logistics processes

can be integratedwith external systems - integrating the transit services into the SingleWindow.

This integration is driven by the objective for CAs and OGAs to cut downtimes in port at border

crossings and en route. As in the case of ASEAN SW, a part of the Certificate of Origin and ASEAN

Customs Declaration Document (ACDD) will also be used to exchange electronically other

documents such as Phytosanitary certificates, cargo documentation, shipping manifests and