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CAIRO - 25 February 2021: Head of the Customs Authority Kamal Negm said the finance minister gave directives to ease all measures and offer facilities to encourage importers and owners of goods as well as foreign exporters to join the Advanced Cargo Information (ACI) system, whose pilot testing will start on April 1 before it becomes obligatory on July 1.
At a seminar organized by the authority and MTS company on Thursday, Negm underlined the importance of promoting awareness of importers and owners of goods of the privileges of the new system and registration procedures.
The ACI will first be applied at maritime ports, to be implemented at airports and land terminals in a later stage.
Speaking about Nafeza project, he said the project includes the initial customs registration number ”ACID”, Advanced Cargo Information (ACI) system and e-signature.
Talking more about the new platform, he said importers will submit digital documents for the imported goods to the customs authority through the (single window) platform before shipping them to the country in order to get the initial customs registration number ”ACID” .
The authority will notify the importer with the ”ACID” customs registration number to be recorded in the shipping documents relating to the imported goods.
The e-signature will be used in the data entry and the electronic registration of all data and documents for the pre-registration system (ACI).
He said the Advance Cargo Information (ACI) is a key part of the project as it will help give a prior customs approval to import shipments by recording the basic data of the supplier, the importer, and the imported goods through a window site.
Based on customs risk system, approvals will be granted or not. In case of approvals, the importer will obtain a registration number Initial customs ACID, he said.
The e-signature is a mandatory requirement in order to benefit from the single window system. Importers will create an electronic signature through one of the companies accredited to issue the " e-signature service, he added.
He said the project provides a single database that allows the submission of real-time reports on goods to the concerned authorities before they are imported and entered homeland, adding that Nafeza system has been already implemented in Cairo, Port Said, Alexandria and Damietta airports.
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