News
February 17, 2022
The Customs & Excise Department wishes to advise carrier agents of a change in the functionality of the Transit Document (T1).
Effective Monday, February 21st, 2022 all transit waybills with a nature of 24 transferred on a T1 will now require
that the carrier agent change the nature back to 23 to allow for the preparation of the customs declaration (SAD).
Previously, the T1 document was programmed to automatically change any waybill transferred with the nature 24
to revert to 23 once the Customs Officer at the destination transit shed validates the arrival. This automatic change in
the nature of the waybills caused the system to hang which resulted in the transfer of cargo process being incomplete and led to undue delay in moving cargo to the respective transit shed. We thank you for your cooperation and patience as we continue to make improvements to the ASYCUDA World system and to enhance our Customs procedures.
February 02, 2022
Please be informed that Cabinet Conclusion No.51(b) of 2022 approved the extension of the Christmas Barrels Concession for a period of two (2) months from 01st February 2022 to 31st March 2022. The terms and conditions for the barrels concession remain as follows:
1. 100% waiver of Import Duty on personal items, food, clothing, toys and other household consumables, contained in barrels imported between 01st February 2022 and 31st march 2022. Electronic items are explicitly excluded;
2. The number of barrels that would qualify for the concessions would be limited to two (2) per household;
3. There would be an upper limit of EC $2500.00 per barrel on the value of items qualifying for the concessions;
4. The items identified in one (1) above must be for personal use only and not for commercial use; and
5. The usual penalties, fines, etc. would be applied if the goods are used for commercial purposes.
Cabinet further approved the transmission of the appropriate legal instrument to Parliament to declare barrels imported during the period 01st February 2022 to 31st march 2022 exempt from value added tax (VAT).
Kindly note that items that qualify for this concession will attract Customs Service Charge at the rate of 6%.
Barrels will not be delivered if these guidelines are not met.
January 13, 2022
ALL users of the Saint Lucia ASYCUDA World services are hereby informed that effective Wednesday January 19th, 2022, the ASYCUDA Web Page @ http://aw.customs.gov.lc/awlive shall be discontinued. The ASYCUDA Login file is currently available @ https://asycuda.customs.gov.lc.
The said users are kindly asked to, where applicable, make the necessary changes to their firewall and update the respective java security exception with the new URL. Efforts are currently underway to permanently remove the need for this exception within the next few days. Users will notice the absence of the security warning once the change takes effect. We thank you for your usual cooperation and patience.
