Dubai Customs plays pivotal role in boosting UAE’s external trade

Ahmed Mahboob Musabih, Director-General of Dubai Customs, CEO of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation, received Tamer Mansour, Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC), to discuss means of further cooperation.

Shaheen Ali Shaheen, Regional Advisor to the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, also attended the meeting.

“Dubai Customs plays a pivotal role in boosting the UAE’s external trade through expanding economic partnerships and accords with other countries around the world,” said Musabih.

“The Dubai Economic Agenda ‘D33”, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, includes 100 transformative projects, with economic targets of doubling our foreign trade to reach Dhs25 trillion and adding 400 cities as key trading partners.

Dubai Customs provides the best customs services and facilities to traders and investors in support of their business in Dubai. Countries of South America, especially Brazil, are witnessing growth in mutual trade with the emirate.

“Our meeting with the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce is to brief them on our distinctive performance in developing smart AI services.”

“These developments will help us foster trade relations with Brazil and respond quicker to their needs.”

“The UAE has become a major link between international markets, especially after the launch of our Authorised Economic Operator programme, which consolidated trade and customs linkage.”

“Companies, members of the programme, enjoy a plethora of benefits including easy access to global markets, especially the markets of countries with which we have signed mutual recognition agreements. There are now 107 companies that have joined the programme in the UAE,” Musabih added.

For his part, Tamer Mansour expressed his happiness for the noticeable efforts of Dubai Customs that lead to enhance cooperation and partnership with Brazil and Latin America.

He confirmed they are benefiting at the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce from the advanced customs services offered by Dubai Customs to foster mutual trade.

“During this meeting, we underlined the importance of boosting trade with Brazil by using a blockchain digital integration between the Customs in Dubai and authorities in charge of foreign trade in Brazil.

This integration saves customs transaction time through advance sharing of shipment documents for authentication, which helps avoid delays and cut down costs on businesses.

This technology can also be used for pre-tracking commercial shipments coming from Brazil to Dubai, and later on as they transit to regional and global markets,” said Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce’s Secretary-General.

WAM