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Trade Facility and Risk Management:
Major Yaarub Hamed AlHinai Its Effect on Job Performance of Oman’s Directorate
Deputy Manager of Customs Audit General of Customs
Over the last few decades, countries have made time of doing trade. Today these obstacles are
significant progress in lowering trade tariffs and seen as posing greater barriers to trade than
dismantling quota systems. International trade tariffs and quotas do. They are “thickening”
has increased and manufacturing has become the border of countries (Wilson, Norbert (2007)).
more global, with developing, emerging Hence, it is more important than ever to achieve
and transition economies connecting with trade facilitation to enhance administrative
international supply and value chains in terms efficiency and effectiveness, reduce costs and
of both their exports and imports. The worldwide time to markets, and increase predictability
distribution and sourcing cycles, along with in global trade (The Trade Facilitation
just-in-time and just-in-sequence logistics Implementation Guide (2012)).
services and the emergence of e-business, has
created pressure on governments to ensure The risk of a custom body is the possibility of
efficient, fast and reliable border crossing and happening of the events or actions which
clearance procedures. Governments started can cause obstacles in obtaining the targets.
to realize that their export economies heavily One of the main functions of the customs
depend on efficient import processing, hence is to assure the trade facilitation during the
the need to have a holistic approach for a customs procedures, for the local and foreign
more efficient management of end-to-end businesses. The activity of these businesses
trade transactions. Lack of transparency about must be in accordance with the laws and rules
rules and regulations, redundant and lengthy of the country. The control of the respecting
clearance processes, and multiple documents these rules and laws and the discovery of
requirements in different formats and with the violations during the international trade is
different data elements, increase the costs and another function of the customs. This is a very
important function, as it is assured the control
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