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7th Edition of the International Single Window Conference

18th September 2019

• 1. Project started: June 2015
• 2. Implemented Agencies: 16

MDAs under phase 1

• 3. Remaining Agency: 14
• 4. Lead Agency: URA
• 5. Coordinating Min: MTIC

Background The Article 10 (4) of the Bali Ministerial decision on the Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) requires WTO members to establish a single window system that enables traders to submit required information and timely receive feedback through a single entry point connecting the participating authorities or agencies

Current status

Interface with agencies

1. Taxpayers Registration 2. TIN and HS Validation 3. Payment 4. Risk Profile list 5. Receiving approved permits 6. Permits are sent to ASYCUDA World for writing off; 7. UeSW sends inspection requests 8. UeSW receives inspection result and inform Customs to release the consignment

Results

• Predictable Business Process
• Process- Issuance of Permits
• Enforce Compliance
• Improved Quality of all Exports

and Imports

• Private sector saved Over

$85,966 (from 63,615 PCO issued in 2018)

Impact on Exports

Coffee export permits - 36,567 permit issued Sanitary & Phytosanitary Certificate issuance:

• Animal

1,402

• Crop

7,034

• Fish

3,063 Total 11,499

Country Number Kenya 30,673 Rwanda 25,483 Burundi 2,470 Tanzania 2,192 Others 8,838 Total 69,656

Preferential Certificates of Origin - Facilitate export to EAC countries

Import of Agriculture and Animal products

• Facilitate issuance of import

permit processed by other Gov Agencies;

• Simply compliance control in

Customs;

• Quality of export improved

Impact on Imports

• Faster Clearance of Cargo – Advance e-

Manifest

• More accurate information into Gov

Systems

• Professionalization of Clearing firms -e-

authorization clearing firms

• Reduced Human contacts- Efficiency
• Reduced cost of doing business-

movement of People and Documents

• Total of 1,080 e-manifest received since

November 2018.

Import of Drug

• Protection the society from

harmful products, UeSW enhanced control of drugs importation. Import Export Total 14,224 1,400 Animal Crop Fish Total 228 1,581 90 1,899

Phase II

• 1. Additional agencies
• 2. Single Transactional

Portal

• 3. Commodity Based

Application

Singe Transaction Portals

Commodity Based Application

Commodity based application is an intelligence-based application on some identified commodities where a trader shall only select specific commodity to be imported or exported. Only one form is filled and

• submitted. UeSW system in

turn, filters and dispatches relevant information to respective intervening

• agencies. Applicant is

notified about every action taken by each agency. Commodity Intervening agencies Requirements Coffee UCDA Export Permit MAAIF Phytosanitary certificate Cotton CDO Export Permit MAAIF Phytosanitary certificate URA Preferential Certificate of

• rigin

Maize Fumigation Firms Certificate of fumigation MAAIF Phytosanitary certificate URA Preferential Certificate of

• rigin

Table 15. Commodities regulated more than one agencies

Challenge and opportunities

• 1. Being land locked, it

creates an extra costs in logistics to move container from the port of entry to the final destination – G2B initiatives (AEO Program), B2B(Logistics Platform - transport, logistics and the distribution).

Challenge and opportunities Cont’d

• 2. The alternative to

maritime transport consists to air transport that is still expensive and most of cases not affordable – Airport Community

Airport Community Management System Project (ACM)

Challenges and opportunities Cont’d

• 3. Traders were not able to

trace their cargo shipping

• status. This created number
• f challenges between

traders and transporters. Through UeSW system, traders can now trace port clearance process and all movement along the corridor through RECTS introduced since 2015.

Challenges and opportunities Cont’d

• 4. Trade barriers across the

Northern corridor (Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya) in the form of weighbridges, police roadblocks and border

• crossings. Uganda

implemented a system to report NTBs and real time intervention is coordinated at MTIC and Traders Information Portal that is linked with UeSW system provide guidance on regulatory requirements

Challenges and opportunities Cont’d

• 5. One Stop Border posts for

main entry and exit points. All services can be performed through these posts since UeSW that is connecting all Government Agencies can perform their verification and certification required through UeSW system. (Border crossing time reduced from 72 hours to less than 6 hours)

Conclusion

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