Improving Customs Transit Systems
In the Islamic Countries
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International Customs Transit Computerized System (SINTIA) – MERCOSUR57 Customs
Records Information Exchange is a computerized systemused by theMERCOSURMember States
of: Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico (observer), Peru, and Venezuela
(suspended) to enable their CAs to exchange information via an online database.
2.2.2.2 Brief History of TIM
The Mesoamerica countries of Central America and Mexico sub-region participate in the
International Goods in Transit (TIM) Project. Mesoamerica Project is a regional integration and
development plan that aims to connect Mexico, all seven Central American countries (Belize,
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama), Colombia and the
Dominican Republic by stimulating investment in infrastructure and focusing on energy,
telecommunications, trade facilitation, and human development, among other issues. In this
realm, Central America and Mexico have implemented the “Mesoamerican Procedure for the
International Transit of Goods” Program58 that regulates the transport of goods between all
countries from Mexico to Panama, known as the Pacific Corridor. For goods subject to
phytosanitary and sanitary controls, a special Regulation on Management of International and
Regional Transit of Agricultural Shipments and Goods (2007) is in force. 59
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58 Procedimiento Mesoamericano para el Tránsito Internacional de Mercancías or TIM in Spanish
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