Improving Customs Transit Systems
In the Islamic Countries
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NCTS supports the following types of transactions:
 Declaration – Transactions to initiate a movement;
 Control – Transactions to handle control of a movement;
 Movement Release – Transactions to release a movement for transit;
 Cancellation – Transactions to cancel a movement before the goods are removed from
the Office of Departure, or the approved place controlled by that office;
 Arrival – Transactions to handle the arrival of a movement;
 Diversion – Transactions to handle diversion of a movement;
 Unload – Transactions to handle the unloading of goods in a movement to an Authorized
Consignee;
 Release – Transactions to release goods for Transit;
 Movement through Office of Transit (in reality, for the majority of transit operations
there is no Office of Transit (OoTra) involved; on the other hand, it is possible that there
is more than one OoTra involved in any transit operation).
NCTS, in the frame of Simplified Procedures, allows approved traders to move goods under
Customs control from or to their premises, ports/airports or other approved places such as
warehouses, and other temporary storage facilities without the need to present the goods and
corresponding documents to the Office of Departure or destination. Authorized traders will
enjoy, depending upon the conditions of their authorization recorded in Authorised Economic
Operators system (AEO), several benefits such as unloading of the transported goods at their
premises.
2.2.3.3 Main Messages used in an NCTS Operation
The main messages used in the NCTS operations and their description are as follow:
 The transit declaration is presented in an electronic form (the message "Declaration
Data" (IE015);
 The Master Reference Number (MRN) is a unique registration number, given by the
system to the declaration to identify the movement;
 The Transit Accompanying Document (TAD) accompanies the goods from the Customs
office of Departure to the Customs office of the Destination;
 The message “Anticipated arrival record” (IE001) is sent by the Customs office of
Departure to the declared Customs office of Destination indicated in the declaration;
 The message “Anticipated transit record” (IE050) is sent by the Customs office of
Departure to the declared Customs office(s) of Transit to notify the anticipated border
passage of the goods;
 The message “Notification of crossing frontier” (IE118), is sent by the actual Customs
office of Transit used after having checked the goods;