Korea Customs Service begins operations of YES FTA Mobile Consulting Service starting this March in order to support SMEs which cannot afford to visit customs offices for consultation in utilizing FTAs.
The service will reflex business’s need as much as possible by separating the method of supporting SMEs – visiting enterprises signed up for the service or targeting the ones within certain regions.
During the onsite visit, customs officials will be accompanied by public customs broker to provide comprehensive consultation and introduce them to funding programs if needed.
In particular, customs officials are to provide technical advises in areas such as tariff classification, origin criteria and preferential tariff rate that businesses having difficulty with.
Meanwhile, Korea Customs Service has been supporting businesses to enjoy the benefit of FTA. Indeed, the mobile consulting service supported 1,092 businesses last year and their amount of export to FTA partner countries increased by 20% year on year.
Companies can apply for YES FTA mobile consulting service through KCS FTA webpage and at the customs offices.
With YES FTA mobile consulting service, Korea Customs Service will actively support Korean exporting companies so that they can fully enjoy the benefit of FTA.
* KCS FTA portal site: http://fta.customs.go.kr → One-stop FTA Support Center
* Contact point of One-stop FTA Support Centers operating ‘YES FTA Mobile Consulting Service’ at:
Incheon Customs – 032-452-3644 / incheonsupport@customs.go.kr
Seoul Customs – 02-510-1382 / seoulsupport@customs.go.kr
Busan Customs – 051-620-6956 / busansupport@customs.go.kr
Daegu Customs – 053-230-5183 / daegusupport@customs.go.kr
Gwangju Customs – 062-975-8197 / gwangjusupport@customs.go.kr
Pyeongtaek Customs – 031-8054-7042 / fta016@customs.go.kr