In particular the following may be mentioned .
----- The physical inspection of the load and transit country frontiers , expensive in terms of labor and facilities , can be replaced by inspection confined merely to the external condition of the container or the means of transport and the sales affixed by competent authorities in the country of departure ;
----- It is no longer necessary to organize a national guaranteeing system since an International guaranteeing system of lawful amount per TIR carnet and per country is provided by the TIR system .
----- It eliminates the need for an expensive national system of documentary control .
Commercial Advantages :-
The advantages to commerce and to transport interests are equally clear . Goods may travel across national frontiers with a minimum of interference by Customs . By reducing delay in transit , it enables significant economics to be made in transport costs. Moreover the revised provision of the TIR convention enable this advantages to be widely applied to the transport of goods in containers . Finally in reducing the impediments to international traffic by Road Customs Control , it enables exporters to select more easily the form of transport most suitable to their needs .
