General Commission of Customs tasks

The General Commission of Customs is considered one of the most important establishments of ministry of Finance because of the vital role of this commission especially in financial, economic, and social affairs such as:

1- Income collecting for treasury interest.

General Commission of Customs is one of ministry of Finance advanced offices
In gathering the incomings for the sake of public treasury, where it's income has reached a high level of the total income of the treasury through the last years.
The Commission is getting it's revenue chiefly from Customs fees on goods and imported and exported materials according to tariff law, production taxes, confiscation and accumulated funds, and the assigned goods by the sellers in the public auction and the other different duties such as checking, storing, and loading ones…etc.

2-Organizing external trade movement:

General Commission of Customs participate in organizing the external trade movement by following laws, legislations, and the special instructions of the trade movement and preventing any violations it might face, also it prevents the forbidden or illegal materials to enter to the country or to go out.

3-Sociaty protection:

Customs plays an important role in protecting community and citizens from negative phenomena such as preventing drugs and hallucination pills to enter the country illegally and also preventing the ubscene pictures and movie.

4- To prevent smuggling phenomena:

One of the major tasks of the General Commission of Customs is to prevent smuggling phenomena in all it's ways the traditional and technical to enter Iraq or to go out of it because of it's negative effects on the national economy and society, through it's different systems and staffs wherever they are, working on the borders or inside the country.

5- Protection the national products:

Customs fees are considered a vital mean in protecting the national products and industries through increasing the Customs duties on the same imported materials to protect the national goods from unequal competition and this is by a suggestion from the concerned official parties after having the agreements about the average of these suggested duties.

6- Giving opinions in laws and legislations:

General Commission of Customs gives the viewpoint in laws, legislations, and instructions which are issued by the different national systems and if necessary by systems which have business with the Customs, and giving advice as long as
it is concerned with the Customs in bilateral and multilateral agreements that Iraq enters into with Arabic and Foreign countries.