Facilitating Trade:
Improving Customs Risk Management Systems
In the OIC Member States
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risk management system in addition to the conventional checks carried out in the PVI. The
Ministry of Economy and Finance signed a contract (N° C-0119/14) with COTECNA Inspections
in support of customs authorities.
At the end of 2002, the contract with COTECNA was extended to developing a risk management
system to supplement the traditional customs controls. Thus, a computer risk management
system “Système Informatique d’Analyse du Risque70” (SIAR) was developed as an integrated
solution, outside of the CDPS.
The CSS has established a CRM Steering Committee responsible for CRM central services and
assigned the CSS IT Department to support the design, development, and maintenance of the
SIAR. At the operational level, the customs control was done the COTECNA Inspections and
Senegalese customs officers.
The SIAR risk management solution was to perform a risk analysis of the pre-arrival import
declarations lodged by traders. After issuing the Verification Certificates (AV) by COTECNA, the
goods were released for free circulation.
SIAR risk management solution has been in operation since 2010, but has several crucial
weaknesses:
 Approximately 50 % of the goods are not subject to customs control. This happens
because the SIAR system is automatically releasing the goods as soon as COTECNA
issues the Verification Certificates (AV) based on valuation analysis of the goods;
 The results of the customs control carried out by the Customs, even in case of non-
compliances or irregularities, are paper-based and not sufficiently documented. Also,
there is no possibility to enter the feedback of the customs control in the SIAR system.
Consequently, the analysis of the customs control feedback is manual, requiring a lot of
resources;
 The Customs officers carry out their controls without consideration of the SIAR system
instructions. This significantly increases the physical control of goods and increases the
possibility of corruption;
 Senegalese Customs is fully dependent on COTECNA regarding upgrading and
maintenance of the SIAR system and customs control;
IMF assisted the AFRITAC West agency71 to start the development of a new CDP System
“Traitement Automatisé des Marchandises par voie Electronique” (TAME72). With the
implementation of TAME, the SIAR become an autonomous system. The TAME CDPS is a
modular system, applying risk analysis on a transactional basis, allowing customs officers to
enter irregularities/noncompliance reports related to customs declarations electronically.
For the time being, TAME retrieves the results from the SIAR and sends them to the customs
clearance system for goods that are subject to a customs control. TAME is a predictive analytics
tool that allows risk calculation and dynamic targeting. This enables the SCC to dynamically
identify the transactions that are “risky” and likely to be noncompliant, and accordingly enabling
most effective resource planning. As the contract with COTECNA ends in 2018, the TAME will
take over the overall CRM functionalities.
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72 TAME in Wolof language means “Sieve”