The customs agents of 21 countries are looking for new customs regulations for e-commerce traffic. To this end, the entities have signed an agreement under the name of “Declaración de República Dominicana”, which calls for new measures for effective customs control of cross-border e-commerce flows.
The customs representatives of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, and through the General Council of Customs Agents, the United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, and Venezuela have drafted eleven recommendations for the responsible of their countries border.
Among the objectives pursued by this initiative is the need to equalize the handling of e-commerce shipments, the search for reciprocal customs and judicial assistance agreements, which will boost international cooperation in a sector that moves on a global scale.
It should be noted that the agreement calls for the creation of specialized units to examine e-commerce transactions, with homogeneous software, in addition to the use of non-intrusive verification technology at different border stages. For shipments to be carried out correctly, the agreement states that the responsibilities of postal operators and parcel companies must be delimited to be equated to any other international trade operator.
E-commerce has been successful thanks to the exceptional logistics management. The cycle consists of the online market generating exponential increases in the logistics sector, attracting more buyers, which in turn positions e-commerce as the main engine of growth in the logistics environment. In this sense, e-commerce forms an important part of the client portfolio for two-thirds of logistics companies.