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Improving Customs Transit Systems

In the Islamic Countries

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control unit comprising the Police, Customs and the Gendarmerie makes extensive use of this

risk management, and lead to extensive controls on containers in transit without this control

being specifically linked to risk management.

Senegal Customs and Police have seized 798 kg of cocaine hidden inside new cars on a ship

traveling from Brazil, the latest in a series of large seizures off the West African coast this year.

The cars were destined for Germany and Ghana. Drug smugglers use West Africa as a

transshipment point for cocaine en route from South America to Europe

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4.2.9

Authorized Economic Operators (AEO)

The Privileged Partnership Program (PPP), a form of AEO, is a trade facilitation program that

needs to be transformed into a genuine AEO program. The PPP built primarily on imports.

USAID provides technical assistance in this area. Currently, traders, customs agents, and

transporters do not use the benefits of PPP for the transit procedure.

4.2.10 Single Window

The Senegalese SW for foreign trade focuses on trade-related certificates and authorizations but

does not include transit-related procedures and formalities. It also does not support transport

relevant formalities such as the discharge of the bill of lading as this is managed by the port

community system of the PAD. The company that manages the SW GAINDE 2000 developed a

Port Single Window (PSW) with the main objective to speed up the processes, but it is not yet

implemented for transit. The only functional part of the SW related to transit is the transit

release order status acknowledged through the SW portal.

4.2.11 National Trade Facilitation Committee

The existing structure in Senegal, which corresponds to Article 23-2 of the TFA, is the National

Sub-committee on Trade Facilitation (SCNFE), which deals with issues related to trade

facilitation. It was created byMinisterial Decree No. 8683 of 09 September 2009. The Directorate

General of Customs, through the Directorate of Facilitation and Partnership with Enterprise

(DFPE), is the Coordinator.

The National Sub-committee on Trade Facilitation is responsible for:

Contribute to removing obstacles to the free movement of goods;

Prepare and formulate national positions on the ongoing WTO negotiations on trade

facilitation;

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