Customs: Nigeria, Benin Republic To Inaugurate Connectivity Platform To Facilitate Trade - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 13, 2019
TheNigeria Customs Service and its counterpart in Benin Republic have concludedplans to inaugurate a new website on June 20, to facilitate trade.
ThePublic Relations Officer of the service, Joseph Attah, said in an interview inAbuja on Thursday that the platform would be inaugurated at Seme border by theheads of customs of the two countries.
Hesaid this move was part of the drive by ECOWAS to connect all customsadministrations within sub region to facilitate trade and tackle smuggling.
Hedisclosed that with this agreement, henceforth, there would be singledeclaration that would be viewed from both ends pointing out that whateverdeclared at Benin-Republic would be seen by NCS in Nigeria.
Accordingto him, the idea is to have a seamless business transaction that will deal withvices associated with crossed-border trade.Attah said the platform would