Poised to deal with the issue of discrepancies on value paid on imported vehicles, the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has called for the Harmonized System (HS) to be made operational.
The National Publicity Secretary of ANLCA, Mr. Joe Sanni said this in a statement last week a copy of which was sighted by Shipping Position Daily.
Sanni reiterated that if the issue of providing a vehicle’s ex-factory price and depreciation and Hs Codes portal have been made operational, the unpalatable cases of inherent underhand dealings in valuing each vehicle would have been a thing of the past.
The association’s image-maker maintained that with the platform on ground, the doubts by the general public on the level of insincerity among customs officers when it comes to duty payable on imported vehicles would have been cleared.
“If this issue of providing a vehicle’s ex-factory price and depreciation and HS Codes portal has been made operational, unpalatable cases of inherent underhand dealings in valuing each vehicle would have been a thing of the past”
“With this singular infrastructure/access provided for everyone – importers, exporters, Customs Brokers, Revenue officers, the public would have had a different perception of Customs Officers, who carry the toga of insincerity in their management of valuation of vehicles in the ports and border stations too”, he said.
Sanni nevertheless calledfor the reintroduction of a one-stop-shop desk, especially for clearance of vehicles at the ports, adding that this will address the issue of multiple alerts on cargoes at the ports.
“The incessant and multiple alerts on cargoes, has a workable proposal, put forward by the current Controller in charge of Tin Can Port Command in 2018. This, he called the one-stop-shop desk, to sort out multiple alerts coming from different Customs units and even from other government agencies” he stated.
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