Trade Policy and Export Development

The Trade Facilitation Component is designed to enhance competitiveness in international trade transactions by way of re-engineering customs institutional and infrastructural systems in the country to attune them to customs administration standards founded in the Revised Kyoto Protocol.

The technical assistance package of this component will:

help develop customs frontline services on clearance and transit towards an efficient and effective system of facilitating safe and fair trade;
enhance customs institutional capacity to accelerate participation in regional and international customs cooperation;
enhance coordinated and effective implementation of modernization process assisted by other bi- and multilateral development programmes; and
train and develop customs personnel as well as transport service organizations, and private sector operators on antifraud and trade facilitation themes to enable them to honor international customs commitment.

The specific component activities include:

assisting BOC in assessing the needs of 40 agencies (including BOC) to enable them to fully integrate and participate in the national single window (NSW), involving an automated system thatincludes application, processing, approval, submission, and verification of import and export permits, clearances and certifications;
provision of technical support to BOC in the development, adoption, and implementation of a customs transit system within RP;
planning, design and implementation of a second round of in-house training on different aspects of customs administration;
implementation of other priority activities in the BOC Strategic Plan as may be agreed upon with BOC, including resource mobilization and coordination of its implementation;
provide technical support to BOC in: (a) use and maintenance of the enhanced ASYCUDA risk management system (delivered by UNCTAD and accepted by BOC under TRTA I) within the Electronic to Mobile (E2M) system; and (b) implementation of other aspects of customs modernization committed by RP under ASEAN SPCD including customs clearance in general, and to NSW, risk management, Authorized Economic Operator (AEO), Certificate of Origin (COO), in particular;
provide technical support to the assigned Key Expert in the design of the BOC change management programme framework which will serve as a basic guideline in the design of a change management plan (CMP); and
provide further technical support to BOC in human resource management (HRM), beginning with the translation of competency requirements specified in the Competency Grid at the function level for each BOC Group into position level and drafting of corresponding position (job) descriptions.

The technical assistance package takes on a standing measure to enable the Bureau of Customs to equivalently carry out its services at par with the operational standards of its trading partners while it pursues a dynamic cooperation in affirming the ASEAN Strategic Plan of Customs Development and building the intra-regional trade mechanism for the ASEAN Single Window.