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MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1989

TO COMPUTERS

HANDLE

"TRADERS WHO ARE USING DOCUMENTATION AND ARE SUBMITTING A LARGE NUMBER OF FIND THE NEW SCHEME PARTICULARLY CONVENIENT.

"

TRADE THEIR DECLARATIONS WILL

TIME TREMENDOUSLY AT

"THE SCHIEME WILL SHORTEN THE PROCESSING

THE DEPARTMENT THE TRADE DECLARATION CHARGES COLLECTION OFFICES OF

THE SPOKESMAN SAID. AND THE QUEUING TIME ON THE PART OF TRADERS,

A

BROUGHT THE SPOKESMAN ADDED THAT THE CONVENIENCE THAT WOULD BE BEEN PROVEN BY HAD

SCHEME LAUNCHED PILOT ABOUT BY THE SCHEME EARLIER THIS YEAR.

VIEWS "THE RESPONSE FROM TRADERS HAS BEEN FAVOURABLE AND THEIR

THE SCHEME, AND SUGGESTIONS HAVE BEEN INCORPORATED IN THE DESIGN OF HE SAID.

ון

SCHEME

TRADERS WHO WISH TO MAKE USE OF THE DISKETTE SUBMISSION ARE REQUIRED TO BRING ALONG THEIR DECLARATIONS IN THE FORM OF COMPUTER PRINTOUTS AND THE CORRESPONDING MICROCOMPUTER DISKETTES TO ANY OF DEPARTMENT'S COLLECTION OFFICES.

THE

OTHER DETAILS OF THE REQUIREMENTS GAZETTE NOTICE ISSUED ON NOVEMBER 4, 1988.

WERE

IN PUBLISHED

THE

TO JOIN THE SCHEME,

WHICH RUNS ON MS-DOS OF VERSION 2.0 OR ABOVE.

A TRADER

A NEEDS

MICROCOMPUTER

SYSTEM

THE

GOVERNMENT

HAS

DEVELOPED

A

USER-FRIENDLY,

AT THE

MENU-DRIVEN

AND MICRO-COMPUTER SOFTWARE TO FACILITATE TRADERS IN PREPARING IMPORT

SAME TIME MICROCOMPUTERS AND EXPORT DECLARATIONS USING PRODUCING OUTPUTS THAT MEET ALL THE GOVERNMENT'S SPECIFIED FORMATS.

AT MANUAL.

UNIT

A OPERATION THE SOFTWARE TOGETHER WITH THE

THE FROM

CENSUS AND STATISTICS NOW AVAILABLE PRICE OF $110, ARE DEPARTMENT. WANCHAI TOWER I, 12 HARBOUR ROAD, WAN CHAI.

HAVE

ALTERNATIVELY, TRADERS CAN ALSO DEVELOP THEIR OWN

то JOIN THE SCHEME BUT THEY DECLARATION DATA SUBMITTED CONFORM NOTICE.

THAT MAKE SURE THOSE SPECIFIED

THE

THE IN

SOFTWARE ΤΟ FORMATS OF GAZETTE

THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE SCHEME CAN WRITE TO THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

CALL

5-8234883 OR

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