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MONDAY, JULY 9, 1990
TO TRADERS SUBMITTING MANY TRADE
OFFERED GREAT BENEFITS, HE STRESSED.
DECLARATIONS,
THE SCHEME
TO JOIN THE SCHEME, TRADERS NEED ONLY A MICRO-COMPUTER WHICH RUNS ON MS-DOS OF VERSION 2.0 OR HIGHER.
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FOR TRADERS WHO ARE USING COMPUTERS BUT HAVE NOT YET COMPUTERISED THEIR TRADE DOCUMENTATION WORK, THE GOVERNMENT HAS MADE AVAILABLE A USER FRIENDLY MICRO-COMPUTER SOFTWARE TO FACILITATE THEM IN PREPARING IMPORT AND EXPORT DECLARATIONS USING MICRO-COMPUTERS AND AT THE SAME TIME PRODUCING OUTPUTS THAT MEET ALL THE FORMAT REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
THE SOFTWARE TOGETHER WITH THE OPERATION MANUAL ARE AVAILABLE AT $160 PER SET FROM THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
NEVERTHELESS, THE USE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S SOFTWARE WAS NOT MANDATORY FOR JOINING THE SCHEME, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
"TRADERS CAN DEVELOP THEIR OWN COMPUTER SYSTEMS TO MEET THEIR SPECIFIC NEEDS AND SUBMIT DECLARATIONS ON DISKETTES TO GOVERNMENT 80 LONG AS THE OUTPUT FORMATS OF DECLARATIONS CONFORM ΤΟ THE
GOVERNMENT'S SPECIFICATIONS," HE SAID.
HE SAID ONE MAJOR ADVANTAGE OF USING THE GOVERNMENT'S SOFTWARE WAS THAT IT ENABLED A TRADING FIRM TO SET UP A PRODUCT FILE TO CONTAIN SUCH PARTICULARS AS THE FIRM'S OWN PRODUCT CODES, PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS AND THE CORRESPONDING HARMONIZED SYSTEM CODES.
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BY SIMPLY INPUTTING THE TRADING FIRM'S OWN PRODUCT CODES, THE OTHER PRE-STORED PARTICULARS CAN BE OUTPUT AUTOMATICALLY.
"THUS, THE NEED OF KEYING IN PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS HARMONIZED SYSTEM CODES IS DISPENSED WITH.
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THE SPOKESMAN SAID A PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED PRODUCT FILE WOULD GREATLY FACILITATE THE PREPARATION OF IMPORT OR EXPORT DECLARATIONS.
"IN THIS RESPECT, A TRADING FIRM JOINING THIS SCHEME MAY SEND ITS PREPARED PRODUCT FILE TO THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT, WHERE SPECIALISED STAFF WOULD EXAMINE THE PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS AND THE CORRESPONDING HARMONIZED SYSTEM CODES, HE SAID.
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FOR THOSE TRADERS INTERESTED IN THE SCHEME BUT HAVING DIFFICULTIES IN OPERATING THE GOVERNMENT SOFTWARE, THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT HAS ORGANISED A NUMBER OF SEMINARS AND DEMONSTRATIONS TO ASSIST THEM IN LEARNING HOW TO USE THE SOFTWARE.
MORE SUCH SEMINARS WILL BE ORGANISED. FOR DETAILS, THOSE INTERESTED MAY WRITE ΤΟ COMMISSIONER FOR CENSUS AND STATISTICS (ATTN. SENIOR STATISTICIAN (TRADE) 2) WANCHAI TOWER I, 17TH FLOOR, 12 HARBOUR ROAD, WAN CHAI (REF.: DISKETTE SUBMISSION SCHEME).
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