Consultation: Customs Long-Term Insights Briefing
10.01am 15 January 2025
Customs is consulting on the proposed topic and scope for its Long-term Insights Briefing (LTIB).
LTIBs are departmental documents intended to promote public debate and decision making on future issues that are not being sufficiently addressed by current policy work programmes. Agencies are required to publicly consult both on the topic and on the draft LTIB (Customs plans to do this in late 2025).
Customs’ LTIB will explore the use of New Zealand Tariff goods classification to identify goods of interest at the border. Customs has selected this topic because Tariff goods classification has been increasingly used as a mechanism for alternative public policy objectives beyond goods classification (for example, the identification of regulated goods).
The LTIB topic provides an opportunity for Customs to examine the role of the Tariff in goods classification, the increasing complexity of facilitating international trade through the Tariff and how developments in artificial intelligence as well as the increasing digitisation of trade will affect the use of the Tariff in the future.
We are interested in your views on whether this would be a useful topic for Customs to develop as its LTIB. We are also interested in your views on the proposed scope of the LTIB.
Submissions
Consultation on the proposed topic and scope will run from 15 January 2025 to 31 January 2025.
Customs Long-Term Insights Briefing Topic - Consultation Document (PDF, 201 KB)
You can provide your submission via the methods below.
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Consultation: Long-term Insights Briefing topic
New Zealand Customs Service
PO Box 2218
Wellington 6140