Customs Procedures and Trade Facilitation Sample Clauses

Customs Procedures and Trade Facilitation. Article 46
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Customs Procedures and Trade Facilitation. Each Party shall ensure that its customs procedures are applied in a predictable, uniform, and transparent manner, and shall apply information technology to make its controls more efficient and facilitate legitimate trade.
Customs Procedures and Trade Facilitation. New Zealand and the UK commit to efficient and transparent customs procedures that will support increased trade under the FTA. Goods will be released from customs within clear timeframes to provide certainty for traders. Paperwork will be minimised where possible, with more information available electronically (complementing paperless trading commitments which will be set out in the digital chapter). The rules agreed will reinforce New Zealand and the UK’s ability to maintain effective customs control. Commitments in the customs procedures and trade facilitation chapter will include: • Goods to be released as soon as possible on or before arrival, but in any case within 48 hours of arrival at customs provided all requirements have been met. • Expedited customs procedures for expedited shipments (for example fast-track parcels), including allowing for single submissions of information and release of expedited shipments within 6 hours if all requirements have been met. • Perishable goods to be released within 6 hours if all requirements have been met. Such products will also be given appropriate priority when scheduling any required examinations. • A maximum time period of 90 days for issuing advance rulings on tariff classification and origin to traders. • Customs brokers will not be required to be used for import and export procedures. • Information regarding customs procedures will be made available online. • Review mechanisms will be made available to traders in respect of customs authority decisions. • A commitment that New Zealand and the UK will work together on how customs procedures can be further simplified to support trade between the countries. New Zealand and the UK will endeavour to further simplify procedures, including further reducing data requirements, for traders fulfilling certain defined criteria.
Customs Procedures and Trade Facilitation. Simplified customs procedures and enhanced trade facilitation provisions will allow efficient administration of procedures and expeditious clearance of goods including the release of express consignments and perishable goods within six hours of arrival.
Customs Procedures and Trade Facilitation. Australia and the UK commit to facilitating increased bilateral trade and efficient and transparent customs procedures, while also allowing the UK and Australia to maintain effective customs control. Goods will be released from customs within clear timeframes to provide certainty in the supply chain and reduce costs. Paperwork will be simpler, with more information available electronically. Our systems will boost confidence in the way we trade together, ensuring transparency and predictability at, and away from, the border. Commitments in the Customs Procedures and Trade Facilitation Chapter will include:  Goods to be released within 48 hours of arrival at customs where possible to provide certainty in the supply chain and reduce costs.  Simplified paperwork requirements and a commitment to release shipments within 6 hours where possible for expedited shipments (for example fast-track parcels).  Release of perishable goods within 6 hours where possible to prevent avoidable loss or deterioration of perishable goods.  Time period of 90 days for issuing advance rulings to traders.  Commitment not to require the use of customs brokers for import and export procedures.  Detail concerning customs procedures to be made easily accessible to traders, including electronically, with review mechanisms available to traders for customs authority decisions.  Commitment setting out how the UK and Australia may consider further simplification of customs procedures to benefit traders.  A separate bilateral instrument to be negotiated on Cooperation and Mutual Administrative Assistance in Customs Matters (CMAA) intended to be completed to the same timeframe as the FTA (by Autumn 2021) to support and strengthen customs cooperation.
Customs Procedures and Trade Facilitation 

Related to Customs Procedures and Trade Facilitation

  • Trade Facilitation The Parties shall work cooperatively in the fields of standards, technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures with a view to facilitating trade between the Parties. In particular, the Parties shall seek to identify trade facilitating bilateral initiatives regarding standards, technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures that are appropriate for particular issues or sectors. Such initiatives may include:

  • Facilitation The Receiver agrees to facilitate the assumption, assignment or sublease of leases or the negotiation of new leases by the Assuming Institution; provided, that neither the Receiver nor the Corporation shall be obligated to engage in litigation, make payments to the Assuming Institution or to any third party in connection with facilitating any such assumption, assignment, sublease or negotiation or commit to any other obligations to third parties.

  • PROCUREMENT LOBBYING To the extent this agreement is a "procurement contract" as defined by State Finance Law Sections 139-j and 139-k, by signing this agreement the contractor certifies and affirms that all disclosures made in accordance with State Finance Law Sections 139-j and 139-k are complete, true and accurate. In the event such certification is found to be intentionally false or intentionally incomplete, the State may terminate the agreement by providing written notification to the Contractor in accordance with the terms of the agreement.

  • Whistleblower Protections and Trade Secrets Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, nothing in this Agreement prohibits Executive from reporting possible violations of federal law or regulation to any United States governmental agency or entity in accordance with the provisions of and rules promulgated under Section 21F of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 806 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, or any other whistleblower protection provisions of state or federal law or regulation (including the right to receive an award for information provided to any such government agencies). Furthermore, in accordance with 18 U.S.C. § 1833, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement: (i) Executive shall not be in breach of this Agreement, and shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law (x) for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official or to an attorney solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law, or (y) for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal; and (ii) if Executive files a lawsuit for retaliation by the Company for reporting a suspected violation of law, Executive may disclose the trade secret to Executive’s attorney, and may use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, if Executive files any document containing the trade secret under seal, and does not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order.

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