Maldives Customs Service

Vision:

"ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE" in contributing to the social and economic well-being of the nation by providing professional, quality assured Customs service towards the protection of the society and revenue collection, through optimal Information Technology mobilization.

Mission:

TO ENSURE that persons, goods and conveyances enter and exit the Republic of Maldives in accordance with national laws, and that such function is carried out while protecting the state revenue and the rights of the members of the society and in a manner that safeguards the integrity, esteem, dignity and honour of our Maldivian Nation.

Functions:

To monitor and control the movement of passengers, goods and conveyances arriving in and departing from the Republic of Maldives.
To administer all functions relating to import and export.
To protect and efficiently collect customs revenue.
To protect the community and ensuring compliance with Maldivian law.

Objectives:

Protect and collect revenue on dutiable goods.
Detect and deter narcotics.
Detect and deter smuggling of goods, pornography, and banned articles.
Protect and facilitate legitimate trade and industry to uphold Republic of Maldives trading integrity.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

Assess and collect import and export duties.
Intercept and seize, contraband, illicit drugs, firearms and other prohibited items and control restricted items.
Processing passengers, luggage, cargo and overseas mail-delivered articles.
Act as agents for various government organisations in the controlling of the movements of persons and goods entering and leaving the Maldives.
Detect and deter import and export-related fraud.
Control and monitor the movements of embarking/disembarking persons and loading/unloading of goods in relation to air/sea conveyances arriving from/leaving to overseas destinations and while such conveyances are at anchor parked or in transit parked or in transit to local ports.
Control & monitor bonded warehouses and duty-free establishments.
Compile and maintain imports and exports statistics.

Our Clients:

The Maldivian community
Government
Industries
Travellers
Other government agencies

Our Key Areas:

Community protection
Travel facilitation and compliance
Trade facilitation and compliance
Revenue collection
Staff support and development

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Exchange Rate: for customs purpose only

	AED	3.8025	JPY	0.1632
	AUD	10.9299	LKR	0.1273
	CAD	12.7831	MYR	3.9044
	CHF	12.6972	NOK	2.3568
	CNY	1.8735	SAR	3.5253
	DKK	2.3166	SEK	2.0249
	GBP	20.6697	SGD	9.1966
	HKD	1.7104	THB	0.4894
	IDR	0.0013	USD	12.85
	INR	0.3043	XEU	16.7864
exchange rate for Sep

Customs Procedure Codes - most used CPCs

CPC	CPC description	Free %
C400	Imports to pvt sector ...	00.00
C404	Importation for tourism industry...	00.00
C446	Importation for tourism industry...	100.00
C447	Importation for tourism industry...	75.00
C448	Importation for tourism industry...	50.00
C465	Preferential duty rates under sa...	00.00
C466	Preferential duty rates under sa...	00.00
C476	Ex-warehouse for tourism industr...	00.00
C479	Ex-warehouse for tourism industr...	100.00

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