Bayan System
An electronic customs data system for all customs procedures and operations enabling customers to finalize all customs interactions electronically.
Bayan system components
- Registration of commercial partner system: through providing a code for per partner.
- Manifest system: to connect systems of air, marine cargo by customs system.
- Customs declaration registration: which considers an application and acknowledge from the trader showing types of goods that he wants to import or export.
- Estimating taxes and fees system: calculating due fees and taxes.
- Refunding system: to refund undue taxes.
- Finance affairs systems: to manage finance processes and affairs.
- Exemption system: to monitor customs exemptions.
- Cottas management system: to control goods with limited cottas.
- Guarantee management system: to control different types of guarantees.
- Customs value system: to monitor values provided comparing them with existing values at the data base.
- Customs tariff system: to identify terms of goods tariffs.
- Inspection system: inspection.
- Mobile application system: to send inspection results.
- Goods releasing system: to release goods completed procedures.
- Departure permit system: to issue a departure permit.
- Arrival registration system: registration of carrier information.
- Vehicles movement management system: registration of exit/entering of vehicles.
- Issues system: to register and follow up issues and judgments.
- System management: codes management.
- Economic operator system: golden list.
- Customs warehouses system: to control what is entering and exiting from them.
- Customs auditing system: to audit all financial and procedures of all customs transactions.
- Free zones system: to control imported and exported goods.
- Auctions system: to sell neglected and confiscated goods.
- Supporting decision making system: to provide with information.
- Statistics reporting system: to organize and issuing statistics reports.
Aims of the system
- To reinforce control over security, health and environment of imports and exports, re-export, and transit goods.
- Connecting all bodies of public/private sectors with customs and exchanging information electronically via single electronic window.
- Computerization of all customs procedures and financial, banking processes.
- Decreasing expenses of importation and exportation operations.
- To up scaling the level of the Sultanate of Oman at the international circles in the trading and economic aspects.
- To encourage importers and exporters to use Omani seaports.
- Encourage national and international investments.
- Provide rapid facilitation and electronic services for trade community in real time.
- Present accurate statistics, and analysis for international trade to enable investors and trade project owners to prepare realistic economic feasibility studies.
- To combat trade counterfeiting.
- To establish electronic data base for all customs, security, health, and environment \risks and others.
- Unifying customs procedures to be achieved in less time.
- To limit using paper documents.
- To apply right roles of value agreement avoiding disagreements between importers and customs officers at estimating customs values.
- Statistics information exactness.
- Providing detailed information of all imported and exported goods.
- Quick providing and publication of statistics information.
- Analyze information and identifying statistics and economic expectations indicators.
- Using information outcomes in fields of concerned studies and researches.
- To ease comparisons between Oman exports and that of the neighboring countries.
- Present accurate information for feasibility studies of investors.
- To encourage foreign and local investments to establish local industries for imported materials.
- Support auditing of customs transactions processes , collecting due customs taxes.
- Approve the real value of goods according to international value agreement.
- Providing preferential information about all types of customs exemptions and revenues.
- Supporting customs refunding system and guarantees.
- Issuing licenses and permits electronically to facilitate and fastening consignments releasing.
- Stop using paper documents which limit and stop case of falsification.
- Pre-arrival information electronically will help to audit and identifying risks, in addition to shortening procedures.
- Working with electronic manifest between directorate general of customs and fright agents and establishments work at seaports and airport services.
Bayan system – its importance
- To dispense with paper- documents.
- No need to liaise separately with relevant bodies.
- Possibility of pre- arrival releasing.
- Unifying procedures, equality and transparency in treatment.
- Electronic payments.
- Risk management.
- Access to accurate statistical data and information.
- Avoids repetition of data.
- Saves time, effort and money.
- To raise economic status of Sultanate of Oman.