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Risk Management, Post-Entry Audit,
Customs Intelligence

Risk management is a system that involves:

• systematic risk assessment,
• profiling and selectivity,
• intelligence gathering, and
• analyses

With growing volumes of international trade and passengers, the traditional method of inspecting every traveler or cargo consignment has become a hindrance and is no longer practical. Risk management offers a solution by allowing customs to focus its resources on detecting and examining "high-risk" cargos and travelers, while not impeding the movement of "low-risk" cargos and travelers.

Time for customs clearance can be further shortened by combining risk management with post-entry auditing, in which customs scrutinize the shipment after its entry has been cleared.

ADB activities:

• ADB organized a seminar in Shenzhen, PRC last June 2005 to encourage member countries to reduce inspection of consignments at customs borders and to adopt modern customs control techniques based on risk management and post-clearance audit. The PRC shared the experience of Shenzhen Customs' risk management and automation.
  
  
• In August 2005, ADB and the WCO published the Russian version of the WCO Risk Management Guide which provides a framework to help member countries develop their own risk management systems.
  
  
• ADB organized a seminar in Bangkok in February 2007 to discuss the challenges in the implementation of joint customs control and how to address them. It also included Working Group discussions, and bilateral consultations to develop an action plan to advance the Program’s initiatives in this area.
  
  

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