The Impacts of the Changing Environment on Taiwan Customs Administration
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Wang, Jui-Chien
Abstract
The Customs is one of the crucial agencies of a sovereign state. The jurisdiction of the Customs includes all commerce gateways: land, sea and air ports. The traditional functions of the customs are duty levy, cargo clearance, border enforcement and trade statistics. Facing the challenges of globalization, trade facilitation initiatives and security considerations, the Customs of the 21st century has broadened its functions beyond the traditional to handle the increased complexity of its tasks. While controlling trades, the modern Customs also bear the responsibility of fulfilling its national political and economic goals, as well as meeting the international standards. The WTO trade facilitation plans, international supply chain security, intellectual property rights, tax evasion control and audit have all become part of the routine tasks of the modern Customs. It requires new and professional operations to handle these added functions properly.
Applying System Theory, this thesis analyzed the key elements of the Taiwan Customs Administration and constructed a dynamic response model of the subject Administration to be used as the blueprint of the research.
First, the thesis analyzed the structure and functions of the Taiwan Customs Administration, including the overlapping of the Directorate General of Customs and the Department of Customs Administration, briefly introduced the four field Customs offices, discussed the changes in the core functions of the Customs, the human resources, and organizational culture.
Then, the thesis looked into the domestic and foreign factors affecting the Taiwan Customs Administration. The domestic factors are Taiwan economic developments in the last 30-40 years, the needs for trade related industries, the people and the government agencies regularly served by the Customs. The foreign factors are the pressures from the international organizations - WTO, WCO and APEC. In addition, this thesis offers an observation of the reorganization efforts by the Customs of U.S., U.K. and Singapore in the last decade.
Next, the thesis reviewed the transformations, outputs and feedbacks of the Taiwan Customs Administration, including reducing import duty rates, increasing administrative efficiencies, organizational restructuring. Meanwhile, it assesses whether the operations of the Taiwan Customs meet the needs of the domestic and foreign trade related industries, and whether its feedbacks properly respond to the overall changes.
At the end, this thesis summarized the findings of the research; deliberated the crucial challenges of the Taiwan Customs Administration facing the rapid changes in the global political and economic environments. It offered several recommendations for the future developments of the Taiwan Customs Administration.
Subjects
Customs
system theory
the Impacts of the Changing Environment
Feedback
Cargo Clearance
Border Enforcement
SDGs
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