The National Customs Service signed this Wednesday (11.12.2019) a series of agreements with the National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI), the Financial Analysis Unit (UAF) and the General Treasury of the Republic (TGR), with the aim of optimizing management and continuing to deepen the joint work carried out with state institutions in Chile.. The implementation of these initiatives contributes to the development of better oversight by the Chilean State in the field of economy and society, the customs agency's statement said.
The agreements were signed by the National Director of Customs, José Ignacio Palma, the National Director of INAPI, Loreto Bresky, the National Director of the UAF, Javier Cruz, and the General Treasurer of the Republic, Ximena Hernández.
The agreement with INAPI will allow Customs officials to access the institution's database through the Massive Trademark Processing Platform (PTEM). This can be reviewed directly by inspectors at border crossings, sea and land ports, and airports.
While the agreement with the UAF allows Customs to control the obligation to declare the carriage and transportation of cash and bearer negotiable instruments, Customs will now be able to send directly to third parties the Declarations of Carriage and Transportation of Cash (DPTE) that are issued, so the application of this measure will facilitate the processing of legal cases in particular.
The agreement with the TGR also aims to strengthen control over the correct use of profits for investments in the country's extreme areas and to strengthen the risk analysis of both services.
El Undersecretary of Finance, Francisco Moreno, explained that «Customs has a fundamental mission from the point of view of collecting external taxes and these agreements collaborate in that direction. We continue to make progress in fulfilling President Sebastián Piñera's mandate to modernize the management of State institutions."
To the national director of Customs, José Ignacio Palma, the rubric of the documents and actions that include «They correspond to the important deepening of inter-institutional relations that we have been developing over the years, which undoubtedly results in us being able to carry out our work more efficiently, especially to contribute to the protection of trade and citizenship.«.
Furthermore, the Treasurer General of the Republic, Ximena Hernández, said they are ""taking a very important step, the result of collaboration between our institutions, which aims not only to strengthen the state's oversight capacity, ensuring due compliance by those who access tax benefits such as the Navarino Law, but also to facilitate and expedite service to our users."
El National Director of the UAF, Javier Cruz, commented that "Within the framework of the National Anti-Money Laundering Strategy, the UAF and Customs carry out close joint work, which includes the identification and evaluation of the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing of, for example, free zone users, the generation of risk profiles and the start, this year, of joint inspections.”
Meanwhile, Director of Inapi, Loreto Bresky, stressed that they have always had a very close and fruitful work with Customs within the framework of the Compliance Board, a link that will now be strengthened even further.We will continue to strengthen this bond, which includes a training program on industrial property rights.", Bresky concluded.
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