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BRUSSELS. - Customs director Rafael Camilo on Friday presented to the World Customs Organization (WCO) Dominican Republic’s membership to the Revised Kyoto Convention for the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures and ratified the country's commitment to international best practices.
At a ceremony held as part of the Meeting of the Customs Directors’ Council currently raking place at WCO headquarters in Brussels, Camilo filed the protocol with the Secretary General Dr. Kunio Mikuriya.
Dominican Congress Resolution No. 119-12 ratified the Kyoto Convention and was signed into law by President Leonel Fernandez April 18.
Dominican Republic became the Convention’s 81st member and is the Western Hemisphere’s third country to ratify it, led only by the U.S., Canada and Cuba.
The agreement, among other things, means ??significant progress in the automation of procedures, establishing clear and expeditious rules for the retrieval of goods, commitments and guarantees to continue to fully consolidate a customs service with the highest international standards.
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Another BS agrreement that we will not comply with!
What is needed right-a-way is a transparency of custom operations beginning with having published and updated copies of commodity tariffs, rules, and regulations made available to the public at all customs sites. This would serve to end the BS the public has put up with when arbitrary decisions and actions made by customs officials fly in the face of proper administration of the service. There is a need for checks and balances, especially when customs officers have their own interpretation of what is published rather than consult what is in print.
Agree with your comments 100%. There is a double standard with the customs department, that exists to the detriment of consumers. For example automobiles are taxed according to the "ad valorem" or the value that is imposed by customs, not your cost or declared value, but this value is different if the importer is a new car distributor, which is the lowest, a used car dealer which is a bit higher, or an individual consumer which is the highest. This modern mercantilist measure was created to benefit the new car importers during Balaguer's reign, who where the biggest tax contributors to the state, and the tradition is upheld to this day, to the detriment of consumers.
Transparency and checks and balances are traits that are non existent in the DR, which remain a society governed by the rule of those in positions of power.