Customs Division of The Ghana Revenue Authority has today January 28, 2019 marked its International Customs Day in Accra with focus on ensuring an expansion in movement of people, goods and transport within the ECOWAS sub-region to achieve the needed economic growth.

Under the theme “Smart Borders for Seamless Trade, Travel and Transport”, this year’s celebration underlines the role of Customs in ensuring international trade as well as facilitating cross-border movement of goods and services.

Speaking at the event, Commissioner General for Ghana Revenue Authority, Emmanuel Kofi Nti observed that the “SMART” concept would provide guidelines in evaluating organizational performance, enhancing security and adopting a data-enabled risk management system.

He added that the innovative approach would further boost business processes through the use of new technologies to achieve a solid global value chain.

Mr Nti emphasised the need to explore the use of other IT solutions to improve and expedite border processing.

“ the Customs Division and for that matter GRA would continue to cooperate with our neighbouring countries to ensure that there is a seamless movement of people, goods and transport services within the ECOWAS sub-region to help in economic growth which would also result in the creation of employment opportunities and reduce poverty in the country. The SMART boarder concept unlike our common understanding of it would strengthen government’s target to streamline trade, travel and also counter migrate threats across the country’s borders. He established.



As part of the celebration, World Customs Organisation certificates were presented to some institutions and customs officers who, last year, made sterling contributions to successful customs operations.