Deputyhead of the department Nguyen Huu Nghiep said that enterprises havealready used e-customs but mostly for data transmission, while customsagencies still have to process procedures in manual ways.
The application of the new system, funded by the Japanese Government,will improve the customs management and benefit enterprises much morethan the current method, he added.
It willminimise the intervention by customs officers in dealing withprocedures. On the other hand, this system also requires more datainput, technology update and cooperation from both enterprises andcustoms agencies.
To prepare for the piloting, the department has organised a training course on the new system for over 1,000 enterprises.
VNACCS/VCIS will be fully applied from April 1, 2014.
According to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), up to98 percent of customs declaration forms (30 – 40 million) in Japan areprocessed through the system.-VNA