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Nicaragua: Fixed Rate to be Charged for Customs Scanning

The government has recognized that it was a mistake charging for the scanner service based on the value of the cargo.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The presidential adviser for economic affairs, Bayardo Arce, believes the head of the Directorate General of Customs (DGA), Eddy Medrano, may have overstepped the mark in approving a contract with the company Alvimer Internacional y Compañía Limitada on the right to collect on the declared value of the goods that pass through the scanner system to be installed in the country's customs offices.

"We have been made aware of this criterion of entrepreneurs and talked with President ... and it is clear that a technical error was made," the official, adding that the fee collected will be at a fixed rate as in the draft Law on Granting of Non Intrusive Inspection Services in National Security Border Controls, prior to the approval of Congress.

Source: laprensa.com.ni

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Nicaragua: Scanners to be Installed at Customs Offices

January 2016

The company Alvimer Internacional announced on January 18 the start of operation of the new technology for container inspections.

The border points which will have inspection scanners are Puerto Corinto, El Guasaule, El Espino, Peñas Blancas, San Pancho and Central de Cargas del Aeropuerto Internacional Augusto C. Sandino de Managua.

Guatemala: Scanners Cause Delays in Customs Offices

March 2014

Businessmen are complaining about delays occurring in the process of non-intrusive inspection of goods.

The productive sector is decrying the fact that the processes for non intrusive inspections of merchandise in Customs Offices in Guatemala are making costs more expensive and extending the time it takes to make exports and imports.

Excessive Cost of Goods Inspection Service

June 2013

The concessionaire in charge of scanning services in Nicaraguan customs offices would recover its investment in 15 months and earn $220 million in the 15 year contract.

From all this money, 10% will go to the Directorate General of Customs (DGA). According to preliminary calculations made by the Nicaraguan private sector, the company will invest about $22.4 million in the seven scanners to be installed in each of the seven Nicaragua customs offices, recovering its investment in just 15 months.

Nicaragua: Concession of Customs Scanning Service

June 2013

In Nicaragua the Concession Act for Non Intrusive Inspection has been approved, allowing the award for a period of 15 years of a contract to a Panamanian company.

According to the deputy Jenny Martinez, with the award (prior to approval of the Act) the company Alvimer Internacional are ensuring the use of modern technology scanners to move goods, which will save time for the commercial sector and therefore also save money.