With the aim of enhancing the public-private partnerships and promote voluntary compliance, Regional Customs of Puerto Montt carried out two important training activities aimed at various foreign trade operators in the Los Lagos Region (south).
La primera of them corresponds to the export cargo clearance at origin via sea, where professionals from the Inspection Department explained to participants from various port operators, such as the Port Company of Puerto Montt (Empormontt), Punta Caullahuapi and San José de Calbuco, the different resolutions and the regulatory framework associated with the export of goods from the region of origin.
Statistics were also presented regarding the shipments of products extracted from the Los Lagos Region, with these operations being processed from other ports in the country located in the southern macro zone. This information is relevant to show the volumes of shipments processed in the Regional Customs Office of Puerto Montt, which are intended to be promoted through measures to facilitate shipments at origin to boost the regional economy.
Among other relevant topics discussed during the activity were the main non-tariff barriers faced by exporters and the facilitation measures promoted by the Service. The importance of public and private links to implement some initiatives was also discussed, through the proposal of changes to the current customs regulations that allow cargo dispatches from the regions of origin of extraction or commercialization of products, in order to avoid cargo having to travel by land to other ports of departure.
This could mitigate logistical barriers and adapt regional export statistics to the productive reality of the provinces of the Los Lagos Region, thereby allowing the modernization of the Service's procedures in accordance with the recommendations of the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Shipping Agencies
An second activity training on Internal Transit Declaration (DTI) was specifically aimed at the staff of the region's Shipping Agencies, such as Ultramar, Agunsa, Agental and B&M. In charge of the Illicit Traffic Control Unit (UCTI) of the Puerto Montt Customs Office, the regulations and operation of this system of the National Customs Service were addressed.
The purpose of the activity was to explain to the attendees the different stages of control of the DTI System, which allows the electronic processing of Transit, Transshipment and Redestination Declarations before Customs.
The staff of the shipping agencies were taught in an educational manner how to make enquiries and find out the status of their processed operations, which allows them to control the flow of their shipments throughout the life of the document until its cancellation.
It should be noted that the DTI allows the transfer to another Customs Office of the country of those foreign goods that have arrived in the country and have been legally presented to a specific Customs Office, where they will be given a definitive customs destination or from where they will be exported abroad, in the case of transits. Since they cover foreign goods, these operations must be duly controlled by the National Customs Service, which is why every operator in the foreign trade logistics chain must be familiar with the regulations governing this system.
El Regional Director of Puerto Montt Customs, Pablo Elvenberg, highlighted that “these activities are due to the development of strategic alliances with important actors in the logistics chain present in our Los Lagos Region, through education and dissemination of our customs regulations, managing to generate a space for debate where the main difficulties that affect foreign trade actors in the region can be known, jointly raising measures that allow the incorporation of new operational realities into the current regulations, safeguarding the fiscal interest and promoting regional international commercial activity.”
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