Japan helps Vietnam with customs single window system

Japan will provide Vietnam with an online customs single window system to help the latter put this time-saving system into operation in the fiscal year of 2014 as targeted. Japan calls the applying paperless trade system NACCS (Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated System), which is expected to help Vietnam reduce customs-related paperwork by half. With NACCS, it will take enterprises only one day to get import permits for goods transported by air and 2.6 days for cargoes transported by ship, compared with the current 20 days. Japan will transfer technical information of NACCS to Vietnam and helps the country train people in charge of operating the system. Source VGP