The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning is launching on Monday South Sudan’s Customs Development and Trade Facilitation Programme.
The launch of this programme will extend and deepen the support that Trade Mark East Africa have been providing to the South Sudan Customs Service, funded by the UK Government, since 2011 in order to boost non-oil revenues and facilitate trade.This work comes at a critical time with the Government focussing on diversifying income away from oil revenues.
Acting Minister for Finance and Economic Planning Mary Jervas Yak will be joined by Col. Joshua Agwet Nikaya, representing the Director General of Customs, Joy Hutcheon, Director General Country Programmes at the UK Department for International Development, and Frank Matsaert, Chief Executive Officer, TradeMark East Africa.
Since work began to develop the Customs Service, there has been a significant rise in customs revenue.
Between July 2011 and July 2012, customs revenue increased by over 1,600 percent.