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Lesotho Revenue Authority and Trade Facilitation Agreement

Publish Date: 
19 Apr 2021

On 13 April, the World Customs Organization (WCO) announced that as part of its ongoing support to Members, it had conducted a series of virtual training and capacity building sessions for the Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) to implement the WCO Immediate Release Guidelines to align with the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) Article 7.8 (Expedited Shipments).

The team was led by a Deputy Commissioner with representatives from the air cargo, Information Technology (IT) business process analysis, risk and anti-smuggling units. The support took place under the framework of the United Kingdom (UK) supported Trade Facilitation Capacity Building Programme which constitutes a partnership between the WCO, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to support developing and least developed countries (LDCs) in the implementation of the WTO’s TFA.

During the virtual sessions, the current clearance and release process applied at air cargo was reviewed and bottlenecks were identified, the process was re-engineered incorporating recommendations of the WCO Immediate Release Guidelines, risk management principles and principles of coordinated border management. As a result, the air cargo manifest will be submitted electronically direct to the automated system (ASYCUDA World), and all declarations will be submitted through the automated system and provide LRA with a complete database.

LRA team was highly motivated and participated actively in all the virtual sessions guided by the WCO expert. The LRA team contributed positively and in a timely manner by providing all documents and information needed during sessions. It is expected that the re-engineered clearance process will result in increased efficiency in the clearance and release of air cargo shipments through a coordinated approach, with reduced clearance and release time.

The notable point is that LRA is the first Customs administration to benefit from this virtual capacity-building activity supporting alignment with TFA Article 7.8, and the first administration to be ready for implementation.

Story by: Riaan de Lange

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