The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has held a workshop for journalists to school them on understanding its Customs procedures.

The workshop, which saw participants drawn from both the print and the broadcasting media houses in Takoradi, was an eye-opener for the media personnel to report with an understanding of Customs procedures.

The workshop was on the theme ‘Understanding Customs Procedures’, and saw the Assistant Commissioner of the GRA In charge of Public Affairs, Mr. Robert Nana Mensah, take the journalists through Customs procedures and the law governing the GRA.

The Commissioner explained the rationale behind the tax reforms in Ghana, and educated the participants on the Customs Division Reforms, Transit Trade and General Import Procedures amongst other things.

Touching on Transit Trade, Mr. Nana Mensah defined it as a custom procedure, under which goods were manifested for importation at an approved port in a country for removal by road, inland waters or rail to an exit point in that country for exportation to a final destination in another country.

These procedures were intended to protect the revenue of the country of transit, and to avoid the circumstances where goods intended for transit were leaked into the domestic market.