KARACHI: Pakistan Customs is all set to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China to establish Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) aimed at reducing revenue losses.
“We are on procurement stage. We are going to procure software for the EDI with China and the system would be launched by December 2015”, Collector MCC-Preventive Syed Tariq Huda told Customs Today.
The Collector said that the EDI will help access trade documents on real time basis from computers of cross-border customs stations. The Chinese customs had given feedback and counter proposal on the technical documents, he added.
In order to expedite finalisation of the EDI arrangement, earlier a meeting with the Chinese Customs for exchange of data relating to the certificate of origin between the two countries was held on February 2 to 4, 2015 in Beijing. And, this is the second meeting of Pakistan Customs officers with the Chinese Customs, Tariq Huda said.
