Facilitating Trade:
Improving Customs Risk Management Systems
In the OIC Member States
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compares the NZCS CRM previous with its current approach:
Table 11: NZCS CRM previous and current approach
Previous approach Risk-based approach
Customs clearance - ten days and processing of
60 documents per customs procedure on average,
95% of shipments were physically examined
14.37 million import and export transaction
processed - 99.9% transaction processed within 30
minutes based on risk assessment
Customs and Statistics Processing of Entries and
Retrieval (CASPER), CDPS based on obsolete
technology
Joint Border Management System (JBMS) and
Automated Targeting System – Global assesses
passenger’s system
Separate risk management policies and criteria
ITOC -Integrated Targeting Operations Centre/
agencies’ common risk management
Risk identification/analysis is conducted
manually/Feedback from the customs control
paper-based
Border Protection Financial Management
Information System (FMIS) integrated into the JBMS
No coordination between agencies for
examination of the shipments
Coordinated examination, delegation of control
Low or no input from Intelligence Intelligence-led, risk-based approach
Source: Author’s compilation
Customs seeks to facilitate secure, low-risk trade with minimum disruption (in time and money)
to traders. In 2017 customs processed 9.55 million import transactions58, an increase of 14.5
percent from the 2016 total. There has been significant growth in recent years, mostly due to
the increasing number of imports of low-value goods – likely to be largely due to internet
shopping. The customs also processed 4.82 million export transactions in total, an increase of
40.5% from 2015/1659. NZCS statistical figures in 2017:
Table 12: NZCS statistical figures in 2017
14.4 million customs transaction processed;
99.9% of trade transactions processed within 30 minutes
13.3 million arriving and departing passengers risk-assessed and processed
9.55 million import transaction processed
4.82 million export transactions processed
44,520 individual counterfeit goods items intercepted at the border
13.4 million NZD of harm prevented - interceptions at the border of other unlawful activity
13.3 billion NZD revenue collection
329 million NZD street value illicit drugs intercepted
58 Import transactions include standard import, simplified import, sight import, periodic import, temporary import, and
private import entries, together with import and tranship ECIs (Electronic Cargo Information)
59 NZCS Annual Report 2016/2017