"Dubai Customs" .. Strong growth in the number of transactions and "painful blows" for drug traffickers
Despite "Corona", Dubai's foreign trade maintains its momentum during 2020
«Dubai Customs» kept up with the successive achievements made by the UAE in 2020. Archives
Ahmed Mahboob Mosbeh: "Our advanced technologies represented the solid structure from which our business was launched, especially during periods of closure and remote work."
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The Dubai Customs Department has reviewed its efforts to develop customs work and the achievements it has made during the year 2020, despite the challenges of the global crisis resulting from the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
Dubai Customs confirmed that it continued to direct strikes, which it described as "painful", to drug traffickers and thwart their attempts to smuggle narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances through Dubai customs ports during the year 2020, pointing out that Dubai's foreign trade has maintained its momentum, despite the challenges that accompanied the pandemic, at a time. The strong growth in customs transactions by 23% during 2020, compared to 2019, demonstrated the ability of the local economy to turn challenges into realized opportunities.
Strong growth
In detail, the Director General of Dubai Customs, Ahmed Mahboob Musabih, said that the department has kept pace with the successive achievements made by the UAE in 2020, the year of preparation for the fifty, despite the challenges of the new Corona virus pandemic, which cast its shadow over the whole world, as it preserved Dubai's foreign trade is on the momentum, and the department recorded strong growth in the number of customs transactions, at a time when its advanced technologies represented the solid structure from which its business was launched, especially during periods of closure and remote work.
He added: “The department launched several customs projects that support our direction to play a major role in future commercial transformations. During the past year, it officially launched a cross-border e-commerce platform, which paves the way for attracting more logistics and e-commerce companies. The leading security services provider through an integrated smart system, and painful strikes were directed at drug traffickers by implementing specific controls.
He continued, "We continue to implement our strategy to lead the customs sector by developing technical customs systems that facilitate customs operations and accelerate the flow of travelers."
Non-oil trade
According to Dubai Customs, the value of Dubai's non-oil foreign trade in the first half of 2020 amounted to about 551 billion dirhams, distributed over “imports” worth 320 billion dirhams, “exports” worth 77 billion dirhams, and “re-exports.” Worth 154 billion dirhams.
While the amount of goods in Dubai's foreign trade during this period reached 44 million tons, distributed by 30 million tons of imports, eight million tons of exports, and six million tons of re-exports.
The strong growth in customs transactions completed by Dubai Customs, by 23% during 2020, compared to 2019, shows the ability of the local economy to transform challenges into realized opportunities.
Distance working
Dubai Customs confirmed that business proceeded as usual without any obstacles mentioned during the employees' working stage remotely and from home, pointing to the automatic electronic approval of about 97% of the customs transactions related to the clearance and release of shipments.
She pointed out that it provides a work environment from home and remotely, that enhances the productivity of employees and contains all the necessary tools that they need through an integrated system of various electronic systems such as the virtual desktop “virtual computer”, the “Mizlai” system, and the “Microsoft Teams” application. 18,000 meetings were held across the program.
Motivational initiatives
Dubai Customs indicated that it has implemented an initiative to reduce the financial fines achieved on customs cases discovered or committed before the date of 03/31/2020, by 80% of the fines imposed, on A step that would contribute to facilitating doing business and supporting investors and merchants. It also launched an incentive package to eliminate fines for delaying the renewal / cancellation of the customs broker card.
Intellectual property
Dubai Customs stated that the number of intellectual property disputes with the department in 2020 reached 255 cases, while the number of awareness activities organized by the Intellectual Property Rights Protection Department reached 56 activities that included 2,667 beneficiaries from school students, supervisors and government departments employees.
The number of new trademarks registered with the department reached 367 trademarks, and the number of new agencies registered was 203 agencies, while eight knowledge assets were registered for inventions and innovations supporting the development of customs work. Counterfeit goods were also confiscated and recycled for 59 trademarks. Recycling 161,753 pieces of infringing goods.
Painful blows
"Dubai Customs" stated that within the "safe homeland" campaign launched by the Maritime Customs Centers Administration to raise the readiness of its customs centers, the "Al Khor Customs Center" and "Deira Port" carried out the largest seizures in terms of the volume and quantity of narcotic substances witnessed in the coastal ports. The total amount of various narcotic substances seized was about 662 kilograms, distributed between "crystal" in the amount of 306.44 kilograms, hashish and opium in the amount of 201.44 kilograms, pills and psychotropic substances in the amount of 122.72 kilograms, and heroin in the amount of 32.62 kilograms.
Dubai Customs confirmed that the “Safe Home” campaign continued to direct painful blows to drug traffickers and thwart their attempts to smuggle narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances through Dubai customs outlets, as the “fence” unit, in cooperation with the cadre of inspectors at Hamriyah Customs Center, managed to topple a container containing 76.31. Two kilograms of narcotic substances, with an estimated value of 47.5 million dirhams, were distributed by about 30.15 kilograms of "crystal" and 46.16 kilograms of hashish, which were hidden in a new and innovative way in the container.
Electronic trade
Dubai Customs pointed to the development of a smart cross-border e-commerce platform, the first of its kind in the region, in cooperation with its partners.
She explained that the platform is one of the main projects launched by the department during the past year within the activities of the "Emirates Customs Week", and aims to encourage companies and investors in the field of e-commerce to be present in Dubai, benefit from its technical and logistical services, and increase the share of companies in the emirate in the local and regional distribution of trade. E-commerce to 24 billion dirhams by 2022, by reducing the total cost of e-commerce operations by 20%, which includes the costs of return goods, storage and transportation, as e-commerce sales in the UAE are expected to grow by 23% to reach $ 27 billion (100 billion dirhams). ) In 2022.
140 community initiatives
Dubai Customs affirmed its success in establishing a sustainable model in the aspect of social responsibility, as it was able to overcome the obstacles during the exceptional year due to the Corona pandemic, and strengthened its efforts in supporting and implementing community and charitable initiatives, and implementing 140 community initiatives from which more than 63 thousand beneficiaries benefited from different segments. All society.
The "fence" initiative
"Dubai Customs" unveiled the "fence" project, which is an innovative and smart initiative to monitor customs ports in the Emirate of Dubai. It relies on modern technologies such as artificial intelligence and advanced devices to detect prohibited materials, explosives, and drones.
The initiative aims to strengthen the security measures for the Emirate of Dubai and the UAE, and to support the stability and protection of society from security and health risks by controlling the movement of goods and goods, detecting and tracking smugglers, in addition to facilitating commercial operations and supporting the global supply chain, in a way that establishes the position of the Emirate of Dubai in legitimate trade.
Developing technical systems that facilitate customs operations and accelerate the flow of travelers.
A smart cross-border e-commerce platform considered the first of its kind in the region.
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