Ratification of the Agreement on the Customs Code of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) will be completed before the end of this year. Presidents of the countries of the Union once again confirmed their readiness to facilitate the signing of the document by signing the joint statement prepared following the results of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council on October 11, 2017.
In Russia, changes have been introduced in the control procedure when passing through the state border of the Russian Federation. This will exclude the unjustified downtime of ships and vehicles associated with the beginning of state control. The corresponding resolution is published on the website of the government of the Russian Federation.
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The Federal Customs Service conducts a survey of participants in foreign economic activities in order to identify and analyze the factors that shape the attitude towards the activities of the customs bodies of the Russian Federation, as well as influencing the development of feedback mechanisms between customs authorities and companies. The poll is posted on the official website of the FCS of Russia and is available at this link.
On October 25, the day of the opening of the exhibition “Customs Service 2017”, the Public Council of the FCS of Russia, in cooperation with the IIAC and Alta-Soft companies, launched a joint project for foreign trade participants. The aim of the project is to directly contact the participants of foreign trade activities in various regions of Russia with the Public Council. The software for the participants of foreign economic activity is still running in the test mode. Testing will take place in 5% of users of the program of the company Alta-Soft – “Alta GTD”. In the main version of the program, additional feedback will be provided to the participants of foreign economic activity with the Public Council, where each participant of foreign economic activity can directly contact the FCS.
The leaders of four business associations – the RF CCI, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, “Business Russia” and “Russian Support” signed a Declaration on the approval of the Charter of bona fide participants in foreign economic activity. The signing took place in the framework of the exhibition “Customs Service -2017” taking place in the “Expocenter”.
The agreement on the establishment of the EEC in 2014 stipulates that the tax policy of the countries of the union remains the area of national regulation. However, against the backdrop of the growing turnover of electronic commerce in the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC ), the need for general regulation appears. Details were reported by the Minister for Economic and Financial Policy of EEC Timur Zhaksylykov.
Russia, as the only one of the EEU countries that has a sectional regime, must protect its domestic market from re-export through the introduction of unified rules of customs control at the border of the member countries of the Union. This was stated by the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science Gennady Onishchenko.
