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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>As part of its ongoing digitalisation process, the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) Monday launched its ASYCUDA World System. The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Seedy Keita presided over the official launching. The ASYCUDA World is expected to boost revenue collection, improve procedures in customs administration, facilitate trade by shortening the turnaround time and clearance of goods, promote inter-agency, national and regional cooperation and support the provisions of trade statistics for decision making. Minister Keita said the introduction of the system is \u201ca great milestone in the government\u2019s efforts to improve efficiency and effectiveness in customs clearance processes\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIt also demonstrates the commitment of our government under the able leadership of President Adama Barrow to promote transparency and efficient public service delivery,\u201d Minister Keita added.<\/p>\n He said the new web-based system will reduce the time needed for customs clearance of imports. The Commissioner General of the GRA, Yankuba Darboe said: \u201cThe idea of digitalising our revenue collection system has been central in our previous and current corporate strategic plans.\u201d<\/p>\n To achieve this, CG Darboe added: \u201cIn 2018, the management of the GRA prevailed on the ministry of finance, to seek funding from our development partners to upgrade from the current ASYCUDA++ version to the more advanced, more flexible and more user friendly ASYCUDA World version.\u201d He said the system will speed up the assessment of Customs declaration and significantly reduce transaction time for payment and release of cargo thus facilitating trade.<\/p>\n \u201cIt streamlined procedures of cargo control and clearance of goods thus assuring predictability of processes and procedures. It also enhances administrative efficiency by allowing the re-focus of manpower to other customs operations such as post clearance audit and enforcement activities,\u201d CG Darboe added.<\/p>\n For More News And Analysis About Gambia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Omar Bah Africa-Press – Gambia. As part of its ongoing digitalisation process, the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) Monday launched its ASYCUDA World System. The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Seedy Keita presided over the official launching. The ASYCUDA World is expected to boost revenue collection, improve procedures in customs administration, facilitate trade by shortening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[2355,2361,7008,260,2424],"class_list":["post-17890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-asycuda","tag-gambia","tag-gra"],"yoast_head":"\n