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    Customs Risk Management System in Addis Ababa, Kality Customs Branch Office
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-06-08) Girma, Meseret; Temesgen, Busha (PhD)
    Customs risk management plays an important role an achieving countrywide objective by enabling customs to allocate their scare resources efficiently, undertake balanced control and legitimate trade. Similarly to achieve its objectives; Ethiopian revenue and customs authority has built its capacity and made business process reengineering program so as to collect enough revenue, facilitate trade, contribute for promoting investment, regulate and control illegal trade by changing the customs clearance procedure from physical inspection toward risk management . Ethiopian revenue and customs authority has undertaken an initiative to restructure the way the risk management is managed and the way targeting services are delivered. The establishment of a functional risk management team to direct the targeting program will ensure that it receives the guidance and support to become more effective and efficient. Despite of this move to modernization, most goods are subjected to high customs intervention and international trade of the country that hurt facilitation of trade. This study is launched to assess the customs risk management system in Ethiopian revenue and customs authority Addis Ababa kality customs branch in relation to risk management process, the infrastructure in risk management, compliance measurement, and risk based compliance management, collection of data and information and facilitation and control of customs risk management. This objective has been supported by review of various literatures in area of customs risk management. The study used descriptive research methodology and both qualitative and quantitative research approaches. To conduct the study both primary and secondary data were gathered from 50 Employees of the customs, and 39 clearing agents of the branch based on probability and non-probability sampling techniques. Interviews were also conducted from central and branch risk management team leaders. Secondary data were collected from Automated System for Customs Data System, proclamation, and so on. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. According to the findings, it is difficult to say there is effective implementation of custom risk management process; there is also a gap on supporting infrastructure; the requirement for compliance measurement is implemented in a good condition; Finally the study recommends that the risk management at the branch as well as the authority should implement all the customs risk management processes effectively and efficiently the compliance measurement system should depend on harmonized data system, the intelligence team access information beyond domestic sources, fulfill IT infrastructure, and develop the capacity of risk management officers through training.