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On the occasion of the Commemoration Day and 51st UAE National Day, kindly note that all administrative offices at Dubai Creek and Deira Wharfage offices will be closed from Thursday 01 December 2022 to Saturday 03 December 2022 and work will resume on Monday 5th of December 2022 at normal business hours of 07:30 am to 03:30 pm.

The operation timings during the holidays will be as follows:

Operations:

• 06:00 – 24:00

Registration Counter:

• 06:00 – 16:00

Marine Tower:

24 hours

Dubai Chamber of Commerce’s services such as Certificates of Origin, and attestation will be accessible on the Dubai Trade Portal

Dubai Trade, a DP World company and the Dubai Chamber of Commerce have signed an agreement to allow the local business community easier access to the Chamber’s trade services. This includes certificates of origin, attestation, and other membership services, which will be accessible on the Dubai Trade Portal, a single window platform for international trade.

The agreement was signed by H.E. Hamad Buamim, President & CEO of Dubai Chambers and Abdulla Bin Damithan, CEO & Managing Director, DP World UAE & Jafza.

H.E. Hamad Buamim, President & CEO of Dubai Chambers said: “Our aim has always been to cement Dubai’s position as a leading global business hub and facilitate Dubai’s trade and investment flows with other markets around the world. Through our collaboration with Dubai Trade, we believe that our aim of enhancing the Emirate’s competitiveness in key sectors such as trade and logistics will be much more achievable, as we will be able to integrate various services on a common platform and ensure faster and easier business operations. Moreover, this strategic partnership with Dubai Trade falls in line with our digital transformation efforts and Dubai’s Paperless Strategy, as the platform will further encourage us to adopt a paperless approach to trading operations and payments.”

Abdulla Bin Damithan, CEO & Managing Director, DP World UAE & Jafza said: “As a leading trade enabler, we believe in providing integrated trade solutions that enable our customers to look beyond the horizon. Through our partnership with the Dubai Chamber of Commerce, we aim to further enhance our customers’ experience, helping them leverage through key services and providing a wider range of solutions. In addition to that, we are confident that our collaboration with Dubai Chamber of Commerce will open doors for our users to deal with global corporations and investors, uplifting their businesses to greater standards by capitalising on international trading opportunities.”

Hussain Al Blooshi, COO, Dubai Trade said, “Dubai Trade has played a pivotal role in increasing the competency of the industry by leveraging the robust trade and logistics capabilities through its Single Window. We work closely with our clients to develop a thorough understanding of their requirements and collaborate with key players in the trade sector, which has established us as a single-window for cross border trading in Dubai. Dubai Chamber of Commerce services are a significant addition to our customers to facilitate trade and further enhance ease of doing business, and we believe that this partnership will surely add value to our platform’s users, enabling seamless access to international markets.”

The latest collaboration between Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Dubai Trade aims to boost Dubai’s position as a leading global trade hub by streamlining the trade process and offering faster operations for more than 180,000 customers.

Dubai Trade offers 24/7 access to over 700 digital trade and logistics e-services, allowing its customers a seamless trading experience. These include Customs eClearance, ePermits, Port eClearance, ePayments, company licensing and Free Zone administrative services.

• Training aims to increase operational efficiency, health & safety for the trade and logistics community
• In collaboration with Savefest and 4D Supply Chain
• Latest courses offered to 180,000 registered companies

Dubai Trade, DP World’s single window platform for cross border trade, reaffirms its commitment to enhancing the safety and efficiency of its operations by joining forces with health and safety training provider, SaveFast, and logistics and supply chain consultation provider, 4D Supply Chain Consulting.

Through this collaboration, Dubai Trade will offer its employees and partners health and safety training, as well as supply chain efficiency courses to benefit the entire trade and logistics community.

Dubai Trade will work with 4D Supply Chain Consulting to provide courses on Bills of Lading, Letters of Credit, and Incoterms 2020. It will also work with SaveFast to offer courses including Fire Safety, Emergency First Aid, and Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) & National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH).

Hussain Alblooshi, Chief Operating Officer of Dubai Trade said: “Since its inception, Dubai Trade has been supporting companies and individuals to comply with local and international regulations. The training and courses we offer are in line with the entity’s ultimate policy of ensuring supply chain efficiency, while causing zero harm to people and the environment. They are also backed by market case studies and scenarios, giving them a competitive edge, and adding much value to our partners.”

“The health and safety training courses are the cornerstones of our approach towards Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) issues, forming a critical part of our S&E Framework. In pursuit of this, we strive to ensure that the business activities of our partners are conducted in a manner that avoids and minimises adverse health and safety impacts and reduces workplace accidents. Furthermore, through the supply chain efficiency courses, we aim to provide accredited training content to enhance the competency of industry professionals in developing effective supply chain strategies.”

Dubai Trade is constantly looking to enhance the knowledge base of logistics professionals through tailored orientation and certifications courses. The platform has added new courses to improve learning experiences, making it significantly more impactful and effective for its 240,000 active users from over 180,000 registered companies.

All courses include engaging content to accelerate the learning process. Coupled with E-learning, the platform also allows partners to learn on the go. In the 14 years since it was established, Dubai Trade training has won five industry accolades and awards and has transformed the professional lives of over 28,000 graduates.

Dubai government has launched Ecommerce strategy in Sep 2019, with aim to transform Dubai into a world class Ecommerce hub will which benefits Dubai’s economy.

It is based on three key pillars:
1. Make Dubai as logistics hub to serve the region
2. Promote Dubai as service and talent hub and attract leading global Ecommerce players
3. And lead by example for Safe Ecommerce market

Project aims to fulfill these strategic objectives and ambitions to make Dubai as Ecommerce hub.

This initiative will have changes in existing Dubai Customs processes wherein the Ecommerce companies can submit bulk E-Commerce Declarations and avail E-Commerce (B2C) benefits. Various other impact on other Declaration processing stages have been assessed and implemented as part of this release.

There are many logistics companies operating in free zones having contract with overseas and local Ecommerce companies to store goods in their premises (warehouse). Customs shall now be able to identify the actual associated companies i.e. actual owner of the goods where 3PL is acting as Free zone Importer / Free zone Exporter using “Cargo Ownership” and “Associated Owner” attributes.

Further to identify a transaction as E-Commerce or non E-Commerce, there is introduction of a new field in declaration called "Trade Type". Trade Type should have two values (E-Commerce or non E-Commerce) in applicable declarations.
Below additional information via Dubai Trade user interface or B2G channel is required:
• Trade Type = E-Commerce or Non-E-Commerce
• Cargo Ownership = Self Ownership or Other Company Ownership (if declarant is 3PL Company)
• Owner Associated Company = Business Code of the Associated Company (in case Cargo Ownership = Other Company Ownership)

With help of this initiative, we will be able to identify declaration as E-Commerce or Non E-Commerce in order to encourage and retain E-Commerce players in the region. Recognize E-Commerce companies to ease regulations and provide benefits. Aapplicable declaration service charges/duty/deposit will be made cheaper.

Please be informed that:

• Employment Contracts have been amended and new templates are already in place in accordance with the provisions and conditions included in the Decree by Federal Law No. (33) of 2021 on regulating labour relations and its amendments.
• In addition, the limited Employment Contracts currently in force will be considered valid until their expiration and will be subject to the provisions and conditions included in the Decree by Federal Law No. (33) of 2021 on regulating labour relations and its amendments.
• And based on the Ministerial resolution No. 27 of 2023 recently issued, the deadline of the conversion for the unlimited employment contract to limited employment contract has been extended until 31-12-2023.

Please be informed that:

• Employment Contracts have been amended and new templates are already in place in accordance with the provisions and conditions included in the Decree by Federal Law No. (33) of 2021 on regulating labour relations and its amendments.
• In addition, the limited Employment Contracts currently in force will be considered valid until their expiration and will be subject to the provisions and conditions included in the Decree by Federal Law No. (33) of 2021 on regulating labour relations and its amendments.
• And based on the Ministerial resolution No. 27 of 2023 recently issued, the deadline of the conversion for the unlimited employment contract to limited employment contract has been extended until 31-12-2023.

Please be informed that:

• Employment Contracts have been amended and new templates are already in place in accordance with the provisions and conditions included in the Decree by Federal Law No. (33) of 2021 on regulating labour relations and its amendments.
• In addition, the limited Employment Contracts currently in force will be considered valid until their expiration and will be subject to the provisions and conditions included in the Decree by Federal Law No. (33) of 2021 on regulating labour relations and its amendments.
• And based on the Ministerial resolution No. 27 of 2023 recently issued, the deadline of the conversion for the unlimited employment contract to limited employment contract has been extended until 31-12-2023.

In our continuous effort to achieve goals of the Dubai Paperless strategy; to reduce paper consumption and its cost to customers and for the purpose of simplifying and facilitating faster automated claim processing, Dubai Customs is pleased to announce that exit confirmation for the goods exiting through Jebel Ali port is now automatically performed through integration with DP World system.

In this regard, as part of initial phase, issuance. stamping, and submission of Exit / Entry Certificate paper will be discontinued, effective from May 01, 2021, for the goods exporting from Jebel Ali Free Zone and exiting through Jebel Ali port under FZ Transit Out movements without deposit.

In view of this, Exit / Entry Certificate paper will not be required now from customers to process ‘Non Remittance’ claims for FZ Transit out declarations without deposit (exporting from Jebel Ali Free Zone via Jebel Ali Port).

In case if any exit discrepancy is identified on claim due to exit automation and validation with DP World system, claim may be suspended and customer will be requested to provide export evidence. In such case, customer may approach DP World for issuance and stamping of Exit / Entry Certificate paper in order to furnish Exit / Entry Certificate to Customs for completion of claim processing.

Please note that, in this initial phase, Exit / Entry Certificate paper will be eliminated only for ‘Non-Remittance’ FZ Transit Out declarations without deposit exporting from Jebel Ali Free Zone via Jebel Ali Port.

Issuance and submission of Exit / Entry Certificate paper will be continued in the same existing manner for all other cases of deposit and non-deposit declarations.

Further, submission of Exit / Entry Certificate paper will not be eliminated and always be continued for the claims related to ship-stores, private berths, and bulk oil consignments even exiting through Jebel Ali Port.

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Please note that the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigner Affairs (GDRFA) – Dubai services will not be available on Fridays during the Holy Month of Ramadan.

Please note that the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigner Affairs (GDRFA) – Dubai services will not be available on Fridays during the Holy Month of Ramadan.

Please note that the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigner Affairs (GDRFA) – Dubai services will not be available on Fridays during the Holy Month of Ramadan.

On the occasion of “Hijri New Year 1444”, the Administrative Offices at Dubai Creek and Deira Wharfage will remain closed on 30th July 2022 and work will resume on 1st August 2022 at normal business hours of 07:30 am to 03:30 pm.

The operation timings during the holidays will be as follows:

Operations:

• 06:00 – 22:00

Registration Counter:

• 06:00 – 22:00

Marine Tower:

24 hours

Validation of Vehicle Model Year for new and used vehicles
In order to facilitate and control capturing of correct data of vehicles in declaration, Mirsal now provides facility to validate and allow correct model year of the vehicle based on whether the HS Code belongs to old vehicle or new vehicle.

For the old vehicle HS Codes, Year of Built will be allowed up to maximum of current year – 1. Whereas for the new vehicles, Year of Built will be allowed up to maximum of current year + 1.

Allow updating email ID of Personal Customer
Mirsal has been enhanced to allow updating email ID attribute in the personal customer profile regardless of whether the email already exits or not in the profile. This email ID update will also be allowed even if there are wrong duplicate personal customer records in the system.

However, email update will not be allowed if the updated email ID is already available with another customer or if the personal customer is already registered and activated in our system via i-Declare app.

Changes for newly introduced ‘White’ category of WLP Privilege
WLP (World Logistics Passport) Loyalty Program has recently undergone changes in its structure from a three-Tier membership to a four-Tier membership scheme. Accordingly, a new “White” category of WLP privilege has been introduced along with existing Silver, Gold, and Platinum categories.

In this regard, Mirsal system has been enhanced to enable White category benefits and privileges with in declaration for the WLP privileged customers.

This new ‘White’ category WLP privilege will now be displayed in View Declaration, GCC Print, Track Request and all relevant screens where WLP privilege display is currently available.

Further, extended time period of 14 days will now be facilitated to White category privileged declaration also for purpose of amendment fine exemption in declaration amendment.

• Through its enhanced offerings, the free zone has transformed the order fulfilment landscape, contributing to the success of over 1,700 customers

Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) and Dubai Trade, DP World’s leading trade and logistics hub and premier trade facilitation platform will showcase their dynamic capabilities at Seamless Middle East 2022 to be held on May 31- June 1 2022.

From design to distribution, the two companies offer the perfect environment for e-commerce businesses to thrive in the Middle East, with Dubai as their hub.

Over the years, Jafza has witnessed a rapid growth in its the e-commerce cluster, owing to Dubai Trade’s robust infrastructure, including last-mile delivery logistics. Additionally, Dubai Trade’s technologically advanced solutions give e-commerce companies a competitive advantage over other players in the market. Through their participation in Seamless Middle East, the entities aim to capitalise on this success and help more companies take advantage of the technology, resources, and expertise to reach new geographies.

JAFZA’S DATA-LAKE ZONE
Jafza’s data infrastructure and the use of new technology are benefitting over 1,700 e-commerce companies, helping them stay ahead of the curve. The use of IoT, digital systems and automation and trade integration platforms has helped e-commerce companies simplify the logistics journey through optimal data retrieval. While also helping them connect with relevant government and private sector entities to amplify business.

DUBAI TRADE’S DIGITAL REVOLUTION
Dubai Trade offers 24/7 access to over 700 digital trade and logistics e-services, allowing its customers a seamless trading experience. The platform integrates all business services into one digital platform. Some of them include Customs eClearance, ePermits, Port eClearance, ePayments, company licensing and Free Zone administrative services.
The portal enables Jafza to collaborate with government and private sector partners to adopt pioneering digital solutions. Some of their recent collaborations include partnerships with Dubai Customs and the Dubai Chamber of Commerce to provide paperless cross-border transactions in compliance with regulations.

UNMATCHED CONNECTIVITY
Jafza provides businesses with a single customs-bonded area connected to Al Maktoum International Airport and Jebel Ali Port. The location has created the ideal environment for cross-border e-commerce. Companies operating in Jafza can optimise consolidation and order fulfilment services for the MENA region while enjoying unparalleled connectivity and efficiency in logistics.

EXTENSIVE E-COMMERCE OFFERINGS
DP World’s e-commerce products complement this growth. Some of the key offerings that have helped Jafza’s partners navigate e-commerce challenges include DUBUY.com, a global wholesale e-commerce platform launched as a major gateway for international trade.

Dubai Customs takes another step forward in supporting Traders within Dubai to overcome business challenges by launching the ‘Trader Export Report’ service, which will help support traders to zero rate goods exported by clearing agents or assigned freight forwarders by overseas buyers. These Traders faced a challenge whereby they were unable to zero rate exported goods due to the lack of documentary proof of export.

The new online service aims to provide the necessary official proof required by the VAT legislation in order for these Traders to zero rate the export of goods within the specified period.

The Importer is requested to provide the correct import declaration numbers to the exporting agent of the overseas buyer so that correct import declarations will be referenced in the export declarations. This will enable the importer to generate the Trader Export report with accurate records of imports and exports in order to provide proof of export in conjunction with the Exit Certificate.

‘Generate Trader Export Report’
• Importer/Exporting Agent will generate the report by providing Importer Business Code and period range in which report data is required.
• Importer/Exporting Agent will then view and download this Trader Export Report to support the zero rating of exported goods.
• For purpose of FTA verification of the validity and authentication of the report, Customs is also providing a facility for FTA to view, search, download or generate the report, whereby the FTA can search the report submitted by an importer/Exporting Agent or can generate a new report based on the importer’s TRN. The FTA may also request the Importer/Exporting Agent to provide the Exit Certificate.

The user-friendly service is available on Dubai Trade Portal and will be applicable for the following cleared declaration types:
• Import to Local from ROW
• Import to Local from FZ
• Import to Local from CW
• Import to Local from GCC (Statistical Import)
• Export from Local to ROW or Export from Local to GCC (statistical export) which mention any of the above inbound declaration types as Previous Declaration Number (PDN) in the applicable line items

Note that the trader is still required to meet all the other requirements for zero rating the export of goods, including the retention of the exit certificate and commercial documents proofing the export, and ensuring the goods are exported within the prescribed period of 90 days of the date of supply. This Trader Export Report will only apply to imported goods, which were subsequently exported, and does not apply to goods acquired locally.