Dear friends,
Due to my professional activity, I monitor with interest the specialized information resources dedicated to the improvement of customs regulation and trade facilitation. We post some materials on the information resource «Russian customs academy: SCIENCE».
We bring to your attention the publication «Customs Administration and Digitalization» – a chapter published in the book «Customs Matters. Strengthening Customs Administration in a Changing World». The author is Mr. Tadatsugu Matsudaira. This study is placed in the library of the International Monetary Fund in the public domain and, in our opinion, is very interesting for experts studying the development of the digital customs institution.
Note: This chapter discusses opportunities and challenges presented to customs administrations by information and communication technologies (ICT) and other modern technologies. It examines why some customs administrations struggle with low performance despite having implemented modern ICT for operations. It then discusses some potential causes of low performance, including persistent as well as newly created manual procedures in declaration processing, incomplete exploitation of ICT declaration processing systems’ functions, inadequate ICT support to enterprise-level management or back-end operations, and the inability to process and analyze data. Considering the root causes of low performance while technologies are available, the chapter also reviews the potential customs application of various disruptive technologies, such as data analytics, artificial intelligence, and scanned image analytics.
The research material is published in English.
It can be found at the link.
It should be noted that the issues of the formation of the institution of digital customs in the World Customs Organization is presented in the following works:
- Development of the Institute of Digital Customs: International Legal Aspect: collection of publications / S.V. Mozer. Moscow: Publishing House of the Russian Customs Academy, 2021. 314 pages. URL: http://customs-academy.net/?p=14367
- Digital Customs. WCO Experience: monograph /S.V. Mozer. Moscow: Publishing House of the Russian Customs Academy, 2019. 266 pages. URL: http://customs-academy.net/?p=12502
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08.02.2023