Customs completes the first phase of the automation project and reveals its revenues within 5 months
Economy News – Baghdad
The General Authority of Customs announced, on Sunday, the completion of the first phase of the automation project in 8 centers, and while it was scheduled to complete it throughout its centers in Iraq, it revealed its revenues within 5 months.
The head of the authority, Hassan Al-Okaili, said, in a statement reported by the official news agency, and seen by “Economy News”, that “the authority has started implementing the Scuda system at some border ports since last October,” noting that “the first phase of automation has been completed in 8 customs centers out of a total of 25 centers.”
He added, “The importance of the outlets is measured through the most revenue ports through which many goods enter,” noting, “the second phase will see the automation of the rest of the centers in a time limit that extends for the first half of next year,” pointing out that “automation contributed to increasing revenues.”
He stated, “There are a number of measures carried out by the General Authority of Customs, including reform at the institutional level and at the level of procedures and capacity-building of cadres,” noting, “The Authority is witnessing today a real technological revolution by switching to electronic platforms and modern systems such as the Scuda system.”
He pointed out that “the Authority’s revenues in 2022 reached 800 billion dinars, and in 2023 we achieved one trillion and 33 billion dinars at an increase of 28 percent,” pointing out that “during the first five months of this year, we achieved revenues of 800 billion dinars.”
He expressed his hope that “the revenue rate will rise by the end of this year to 200 percent from what it was in 2022,” explaining that “the measures adopted – foremost of which is automation – reflected positively and clearly on the percentage of revenues and on the level of revenues that entered as revenues to the state treasury.”
Al-Okaili stressed that “every new system that is applied faces a set of challenges, perhaps the most prominent of which is the weakness of infrastructure with the application of modern technologies that have not been previously used,” pointing out that “the Prime Minister directed that the General Authority of Customs be provided with experts and specialists from the Ministry of Higher Education; to strengthen cadres and strengthen the work teams working in this field.”
On the establishment of staff courses to work on the ŠKODA system, Al-Okaili stressed that “a national team of employees of the General Authority of Customs and a team of employees working in this field was built, where they received high-level training by United Nations experts, a total of 48 employees,” pointing out that “the end users of the EsyCUDA system were about 3,300 people between government departments, clearance companies and traders, and work is still continuing on training.”
He stated, “The training is taking place in every border outlet within which the system is applied,” explaining that “during the last three months we have worked training in Baghdad for those who have headquarters in the capital and are difficult for them to travel to the city of Basra or Ramadi.”
He pointed out that “the Scuda system did not work today with all its functions, as one of the functions of the system is to balance between facilitating and facilitating trade and monitoring and protecting the country from products that are not suitable for consumption from smuggling operations,” explaining that “one of the features of the system is that it works with artificial intelligence, where the features of the system will be fully activated in the next stage, including the selective process of detecting goods and storing inspection images of goods so that the system can distinguish between one image and another based on artificial intelligence.”
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