GSL educates importers

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Gateway Services Limited (GSL) has organised an educational programme in Accra for importers of pharmaceutical products from India.

The forum was organised as a contractual duty of GSL within the scope of the destination inspection of imports into Ghana.

GSL, which is currently operating under a five-year contractual mandate, aims at perfecting services and procedures by keeping business partners well-informed as well as listening to them in order to improve mutual relationships and business in general.

?Not only is India one of the countries within the GSL zone, but a very major country within our zone. India is a country whose industrial exploits have in more recent times won the respect and admiration of the global business community, particularly in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals — both raw materials and finished products,? Mr. Nabali Bawa, Managing Director of Gateway Services Limited, said in his address.

He further emphasised that destination inspection activities, which are still on a path of growth, come with a lot of challenges in the environment where they operate; yet still, GSL continues to search for ways and means to improve its performance by putting ears on the ground to listen to comments and suggestions that will help improve services and facilitate trade.

In a bid to make global trade flow more smoothly, GSL has developed and implemented modern and efficient tools like X-ray scanners.

They have also developed a Computerised Risk Management System (CRMS) and Transaction Price Database (TPD) for rapid verification of imports that will eliminate fraud, price discrimination, and fiscal evasion as a result of over-invoicing, under-valuation and wrong declaration of tariff codes.

The CRMS, which is an automated risk assessment system, utilises statistical and econometric methods in addition to advanced technology to determine the risk-levels of imports, while the TPD — which is a custom-built database — is used by GSL to verify the FOB values of imports.

The TPD is automatically updated at the close of each business day with the price records from the day?s operations, and it has also been made accessible to appropriate customs officers online and in real-time for the valuation and verification of imported goods.

GSL has also introduced a mobile SMS text messaging system whereby importers/agents are notified when their documents are queried, and finally when the FCVRs are issued.

GSL has been certified by the ISO9001:2008 quality standard and is a committed member of the International Federation of Inspection Agencies (IFIA).

Mr. Nabali Bawa and others officials at the forum

By Fredericka Tettey and Jennifer Odoi

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