Monday 24 February 2025 
The Inspector General at the General Directorate of Customs (DGD), Mustapha Dahmane said, Wednesday in Algiers, that the customs provisions proposed in the Budget Law for the 2023 financial year, provided for many facilitations for the benefit of economic operators.
Among these measures are “facilitations for economic operators who have been slow to complete customs clearance procedures within the legal deadlines, for reasons beyond their control, by granting them a free hand on the goods after the end of the customs deposit deadlines at the level of warehouses managed by customs collectors”, said Mr. Dahmane in his presentation, during a presentation before the Finance and Budget Commission at the National People’s Assembly (APN).
This measure, he explains, allows operators to clear their goods through customs and saves them from the damage they could suffer because of the delay. It also facilitates the management of customs warehouses, and saves the Treasury from possible additional expenses.
The proposed customs provisions also provide for the creation of new methods of selling seized products, such as sale by sealed bid and electronic sale, “in order to iron out the difficulties which currently hamper auction operations public meetings carried out face-to-face,” said Mr. Dahmane.
In addition, the proposed measures provide for an exemption from the provisional preventive additional tax for goods imported as part of cross-border barter trade.
The Customs representative underlined, in this sense, that “the exemption from the preventive provisional additional tax was created to reduce the value of imports and promote national production, at a time when imports under barter are low and have no impact on national production or foreign exchange reserves”.
The proposed measures also relate to the expansion of the list of vehicles eligible for tax exemptions (provided for by article 112 of the 2020 finance law) to include hybrid vehicles (using both thermal and electric engines), as well as than electric vehicles.
According to the same official, this measure also provides for the authorization of customs clearance of vehicles imported within the framework of the advantages in force, whose cylinder volume exceeds the authorized power, with partial or total payment of the duties and taxes imposed, and this, in order to allow the inhabitants of regions with uneven relief, like the Hauts plateaux and the South, eligible for the tax advantages mentioned in article 112 of the 2020 finance law, to import vehicles adapted to the specificities of these regions.