WHEREAS, realizing that the customs procedure established in line with the customs law in force couldn’t have complied with the growing pattern of trade; activity, has now necessitated for the establishment of new and efficient system to serve the prevailing stage of international commodity exchange;

WHEREAS, the re-establishment of the Authority with the power to decide on matters of customs and equip it with modem facility is believed to enhance its effeciency and precision in decision making process;

WHEREAS, the activities of contraband which is growing very complicated and accompanied by the use of illegal force, and the repression of which has now indispensably called for organizing the Authority in such a way that it be vested with all powers and duties like that of the re-gular police force have;

NOW, THEREFORE, in accordance with Article 55 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, it is hereby proclaimed as follows: