Honduras and Guatemala will make new progress in the deep integration process of the Customs Union with the implementation of actions in the Integrated Customs of Corinto from Sunday November 1, reported the Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA).
The measure responds to the Resolution of the Ministerial Instance of the Customs Union 81/2020, whose text establishes that "no later than November 1, 2020, it must be enabled and put into operation Operation of the Trade Facilitation Centre II, located at the Corinto Integrated Border Post, which will handle customs operations for empty cargo transport vehicles, Authorized Economic Operators (AEO) and customs operations handled at the Trade Facilitation Center I.”
This regulation clarifies that “as of November 1, 2020, at the integrated border post of Corinto, No internal transit operations will be carried out or attended to (TO) of used vehicles from the United States of America, whose final destination is Honduras. Consequently, such operations must, from the moment they enter Guatemalan Customs, be sent directly to the Agua Caliente Integrated Border Post.”
According to official bodies, joint action allows the following objectives to be achieved: benefits:
- Optimize the operation and operations of the Corinto Integrated Border Post
- Improving border crossing times
- Speeding up the passage of freight transport
- Expand the coverage of customs operations carried out at the Corinto Integrated Border Post.
Thus, Guatemala and Honduras deepen the implementation of the new trade model with Integrated Border Posts, which have Trade Facilitation Centers to guarantee the smooth passage of goods and Control Centers to handle those exempted from free circulation.
Added to this is the recent implementation of the Peripheral Customs Offices of the Customs Union, which are used to handle merchandise operations entering the single customs territory.
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