Webb Fontaine Nigeria Limited, a specialist firm in provision of ICT for trade facilitation and improved revenue has achieved a linkage between the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) for uniform manifest.
With this feat, the discrepancies and differences in manifests submitted by importers and their agents to different government agencies have been addressed.
It was learnt that several manifests on imported consignments into Nigeria submitted to customs are often times at variance with what was received by the NPA and FAAN.
This is even as shipping companies were in the past alleged to be involved in the underhand deals of doctoring manifests. Sources at the NPA disclosed that Webb Fontaine simulated the seamless manifest interaction between the NPA and NCS for a test period of three weeks before it went live on the fourth week.
The source added that the new development will help NPA billing process, enhance transparency in the system and increase government revenue by preventing possible leakages caused by information on forged manifests.
He also said that the improved uniform manifest regime will also help government generate accurate data for planning and economic purposes like knowing the number of shipping lines, number of vessels and types of cargoes coming into Nigeria.
For FAAN, airlines had always submitted hard copy manifest and airway bill which in some cases were at variance with the documentation at NCS. Webb Fontaine have also worked out a digital Certificate for the Standard Organisation of Nigeria(SON) whereby importers do not need a hard copy certificate for processing importation of SON regulated products into the country.
In place of attaching photocopies of SON certificates, importers are now only required to input their SON Certificate reference number and the system will accept the entry for processing if the number is genuine as allotted to the company doing the importation.
This SON digital certificate regime also makes it impossible for any two companies to use one certificate number as the number allotted will also be attached to the Tax Identification Number (TIN) of the company that applied for and got it.
Attempts at using an allotted number for a different company will automatically be rejected by the system and detected as fake.
The innovation with SON has increased the number of persons coming to register for SONCAP, improved the organisation’s revenue into government coffers and will curb the incessant incidents of fake and substandard imports into Nigeria. Confirming this development, SON’s spokesman, Matthias Bassey, described it as one that will achieve time and cost saving advantages ahead of the previous regime.
He added that the system will bring about more transparency in the country’s business arena. Bassey said, ‘It saves time and cost and it is very transparent. It provides data for analysis and subsequent planning for national development and decision taking for policy makers’.
Over N20 billion will no doubt be saved yearly from these electronic innovations aimed at curbing fraud and promoting transparency in business while also ensuring a fairer deal for all consumers of regulated products imported into Nigeria.
Webb Fontaine have being playing leading role in modernizing import and export business procedures and processes in Nigeria, as it championed the cause of evolving a single window template that integrates various stakeholders with the Nigeria Customs Service.
The Nigeria Integrated Customs Information System (NICIS), an electronic template playing a prominent role in customs trade facilitation efforts in Nigeria was conceptualized and designed by Webb Fontaine as part of customs modernization drive. NICIS as an e-commerce tool is greatly improving customs operations and processes in Nigeria. It has significantly impacted on the service revenue collection.
An online statement by the company, said, ‘’Implementations of Webb Fontaine products are focused on delivering a customization of the core system using the company’s development centres, resident expatriates and local resources.”
It added that the company has deployed customized TradeWorldManager solutions for Customs automation in the Kingdom of Bahrain (called OFOQ), Armenia, the Philippines (called e2M) as well as selected modules in Nigeria.
‘’These solutions cover the whole spectrum of services, including: e-manifest, e-SAD, e-Transit, e-excises, e-Payment, Risk Management, Integrated Release. In addition the system operates fully automated exemptions and licences modules with SAD acquittals,” the statement added.
A complete Customs system on its own embraces all core Customs functions: Manifest management, Declaration processing, Accounting (cash, credits, statements, prepayment, e-payment), Warehouse management with guarantee control,
Temporary import/ export and processing programmes with guarantee management, excises monitoring and Integrated tariff. Others are, Transit shed management, Valuation check during declaration assessment and through Selectivity and Transit bonds management (road, railway, transshipment).
It was learnt that several manifests on imported consignments into Nigeria submitted to customs are often times at variance with what was received by the NPA and FAAN.
This is even as shipping companies were in the past alleged to be involved in the underhand deals of doctoring manifests. Sources at the NPA disclosed that Webb Fontaine simulated the seamless manifest interaction between the NPA and NCS for a test period of three weeks before it went live on the fourth week.
The source added that the new development will help NPA billing process, enhance transparency in the system and increase government revenue by preventing possible leakages caused by information on forged manifests.
He also said that the improved uniform manifest regime will also help government generate accurate data for planning and economic purposes like knowing the number of shipping lines, number of vessels and types of cargoes coming into Nigeria.
For FAAN, airlines had always submitted hard copy manifest and airway bill which in some cases were at variance with the documentation at NCS. Webb Fontaine have also worked out a digital Certificate for the Standard Organisation of Nigeria(SON) whereby importers do not need a hard copy certificate for processing importation of SON regulated products into the country.
In place of attaching photocopies of SON certificates, importers are now only required to input their SON Certificate reference number and the system will accept the entry for processing if the number is genuine as allotted to the company doing the importation.
This SON digital certificate regime also makes it impossible for any two companies to use one certificate number as the number allotted will also be attached to the Tax Identification Number (TIN) of the company that applied for and got it.
Attempts at using an allotted number for a different company will automatically be rejected by the system and detected as fake.
The innovation with SON has increased the number of persons coming to register for SONCAP, improved the organisation’s revenue into government coffers and will curb the incessant incidents of fake and substandard imports into Nigeria. Confirming this development, SON’s spokesman, Matthias Bassey, described it as one that will achieve time and cost saving advantages ahead of the previous regime.
He added that the system will bring about more transparency in the country’s business arena. Bassey said, ‘It saves time and cost and it is very transparent. It provides data for analysis and subsequent planning for national development and decision taking for policy makers’.
Over N20 billion will no doubt be saved yearly from these electronic innovations aimed at curbing fraud and promoting transparency in business while also ensuring a fairer deal for all consumers of regulated products imported into Nigeria.
Webb Fontaine have being playing leading role in modernizing import and export business procedures and processes in Nigeria, as it championed the cause of evolving a single window template that integrates various stakeholders with the Nigeria Customs Service.
The Nigeria Integrated Customs Information System (NICIS), an electronic template playing a prominent role in customs trade facilitation efforts in Nigeria was conceptualized and designed by Webb Fontaine as part of customs modernization drive. NICIS as an e-commerce tool is greatly improving customs operations and processes in Nigeria. It has significantly impacted on the service revenue collection.
An online statement by the company, said, ‘’Implementations of Webb Fontaine products are focused on delivering a customization of the core system using the company’s development centres, resident expatriates and local resources.”
It added that the company has deployed customized TradeWorldManager solutions for Customs automation in the Kingdom of Bahrain (called OFOQ), Armenia, the Philippines (called e2M) as well as selected modules in Nigeria.
‘’These solutions cover the whole spectrum of services, including: e-manifest, e-SAD, e-Transit, e-excises, e-Payment, Risk Management, Integrated Release. In addition the system operates fully automated exemptions and licences modules with SAD acquittals,” the statement added.
A complete Customs system on its own embraces all core Customs functions: Manifest management, Declaration processing, Accounting (cash, credits, statements, prepayment, e-payment), Warehouse management with guarantee control,
Temporary import/ export and processing programmes with guarantee management, excises monitoring and Integrated tariff. Others are, Transit shed management, Valuation check during declaration assessment and through Selectivity and Transit bonds management (road, railway, transshipment).
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