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Customs and Excise

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 3 March 2021

Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Questions (189, 190, 191)

Sorca Clarke

Question:

189. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance the number of goods containers that entered Dublin Port between 1 and 31 December 2020 from countries outside of the EU, in tabular form. [11260/21]

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Sorca Clarke

Question:

190. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance the average time that containers arriving from outside Europe or the UK between 1 and 31 December 2020 were held before being released to their owners. [11262/21]

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Sorca Clarke

Question:

191. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance the number of occasions from 1 December 2020 to date that the customs charges were reduced following a recalculation on containers arriving to Dublin Port. [11263/21]

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Written answers

I propose to take Questions Nos. 189 to 191, inclusive, together.

I am advised by Revenue that data is maintained in its customs IT systems by reference to customs declarations as opposed to containers. Declarations are submitted in respect of individual consignments and a container may have one or multiple associated declarations.

Each declaration is risk analysed by Revenue and assigned a routing: red, orange or green. In December a total of 110,690 import declarations were lodged to Revenue’s IT system. Of those, approx. 95% (105,689) were green routed, 2% (2,011) were orange routed and 3% (2,990) were red routed. Only green routed goods are released for free circulation at which point they can be removed from the port of arrival.

The length of time taken to release goods that are orange or red routed will depend on when the declaration is presented to Revenue, the type of goods being imported, whether the goods require non-customs import controls e.g. sanitary and phytosanitary checks, the accuracy of the data contained in the declaration and the payment of any associated customs duties and taxes.

In relation to the Deputy’s question on recalculation of customs charges I am advised by Revenue that amendments to customs declarations are made for many reasons some of which may result in a recalculation of customs duties. I am further advised that the information requested is not readily extractable from Revenue IT systems and that consequently it is not possible to provide the information requested by the Deputy.

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