Federal Customs Service chief Andrey Beliyaninov hopes to overwhelm illegal import by requiring preliminary information about the cargo delivered to country.
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Customs Eager to Learn in Advance
Russia’s Federal Customs Service is elaborating amendments to the Customs Code that would require advance information about all movement of cargo via the border. The analysts hail this initiative of FCS but don’t think it will be able to introduce procedures in the near future.
It was Andrey Strukov, chief of the legal department of Federal Customs Service (FCS), that announced the plans to introduce an advance information requirement for freight movement. Strukov reminded that introduction of this system had been specified in the Customs Development Concept elaborated for 2006 to 2010.
The essence of advance efforts of the FCS is obliging the declarants to provide to customs the data on cargo before its actual delivery to Russia. The purposes to attain is to facilitate the work of customs officers, speed up customs clearing and make the process more transparent.
The advance reporting is voluntary yet. It is used in the Kalingrad Transit Project and in six border stations of Oktyabrskaya Railway. Depending on complexity of documents, the time of trains’ clearance lowered by 10 percent to 50 percent, according to North-West Customs Department of FCS.
FCS doesn’t disclose the overall number of freight declarations which have been executed in advance. But the statistics on separate directions are no secret. In the South Customs Department, the advance freight declarations accounted for 12.5 percent on the whole and 24 percent of the total number of import declarations.
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All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 22, 2006
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