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Compliance with Customs Regulations The ultimate aim of any Customs service must be to achieve a high rate of compliance with Customs Laws and other customs regulations by trade and members of the public. The National Customs Board will direct effort to achieve the rate of compliance in two ways: - • by providing information and assistance to importers and exporters to enable those who wish to be compliant to achieve a greater accuracy in making declarations. The National Customs Board will examine ways in which compliant traders can be facilitated by a reduction in controls. Leaflets on all Customs procedures will be produced in an easily understood form, and the newly formed Customs Consultative Council will be used as a forum to discuss proposed changes to procedures and policy. • by improving detection and anti-smuggling techniques and equipment, to identify and penalise those traders who are intentionally non-compliant, or habitually careless. The savings made by reviews detailed in earlier paragraphs may be used to finance the required improvements.