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Welcome to the Vanuatu Department of Customs and Inland Revenue (DCIR) Newsroom. This section includes a wide variety of news from DCIR including media releases and publications.

Examination of cargo at import and export is a crucial part of Customs operations, both for the purpose of protecting Government revenue and our borders. Examinations can be done either at the Ports or at Traders’ premises.

To ensure goods are well accounted for under Customs control, Importers can only take custody of their imported goods provided that a Customs Release Order or a Container Pass, authorizing the release of the goods, is presented to the Cargo Handlers at our ports of entries.

As a border law enforcement agency, who also deals with ensuring compliance with trade rules and collection of duties, Vanuatu Customs has always struggled with the consistent application of relevant laws and the ease of applying compliance measures nationally to improve voluntary compliance.

Making a substantial investment in any Project of a magnitude such as that of the ASYCUDA World Project, means the Vanuatu Government needs to see immediate and tangible results of the direct benefit of its investment.

They say things move slowly with “island time” in the Pacific, however the Customs Division of the Department of Customs and Inland Revenue with its impressive track record of reform and modernization has blown this hackneyed assumption out of the water.

As part of its effort to facilitate trade, FR8 Logistics has successfully developed a proprietary software for the automatic uploading of DHL airway bills directly into ASYCUDA World, without any manual data capturing at all.

The Vanuatu ASYCUDA World system has now been made even easier to access by its users. Thanks to months of commitment by the Project Team to work on this initiative which will see the Vanuatu system be one of the most trusted and secured ASYCUDA World platforms in the World.

Three crews of a foreign vessel were penalised by the Customs in the Port of Luganville for not complying with the Customs laws. On Friday 17th March, the Customs Officer on night duty intercepted a smuggling of a package containing Chinese foodstuffs and Chinese Brand cigarettes by the Chinese crews.

The VAT Office previously had discussions with aid donor representatives and advised them of the correct VAT procedures relating to their projects. This article provides a summary statement of those discussions and also reviews the recent amendment to the Value Added Tax Act 1998 No.12 of 1998 [CAP 247] (“the VAT Act”) relating to the term “approved aid project”. The policy summary of the discussions held was as follows.

Yesterday marked an important day for the Department of Customs and Inland Revenue (DCIR), when the Director, Benjamin Malas signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Gabriel Gauchet, President of recently formed Vanuatu Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association (VCBFA).

The Honorable Minister for Finance and Economic Management (MFEM) signed on Thursday 5th January 2017 the Ministerial Order to introduce the new Customs Harmonised Coding System the HS 2017.

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