Customs administration

Report shows how UNCTAD's automated customs software has helped over 100 countries collect more customs duties, speed up trade and become more open for business.

The Central Asian nation has put in place with UNCTAD’s help an online one-stop-shop that will save importers and exporters time and money.

How can we avoid customs red-tape when people are in deep need of help after a major crisis?

Three years after installing UNCTAD’s automated customs management system, the South Pacific island nation has collected more than $126 million in annual import taxes.​

Meeting with other customs officials in a UN meeting room on a frosty European winter's day, Ben Malas is a long way from his home in Vanuatu, a tropical archipelago of 83 Pacific Ocean islands strung out across an area the size of France.

Trade in agricultural commodities is the next frontier for UNCTAD's ASYCUDA program, which reduces bureaucracy, corruption, and trade delays in as many as 93 developing countries by automating customs procedures.

UNCTAD Secretary-General and the WTO Director General agreed to provide joint assistance to the WTO members in fulfilling their notification requirements for the WTO Integrated Database.

​UNCTAD and CITES signed a Memorandum of Understanding to help countries regulate cross-border trade in animals and plants.

Palestinian Ministers and senior officials have expressed appreciation for UNCTAD's role in supporting the development of the Palestinian economy through its technical cooperation projects that aim at building capacities and helping to overcome the persistent challenges.

The state-of-the-art Automated System for Customs Data (ASYCUDA), developed and implemented by UNCTAD, is playing a key role in Palestinian attainment of international Customs standards and in addressing the Palestinian Authority’s determination to facilitate trade.