Amendments to Customs law to boost export
The Russian State Duma plans to make significant amendments to the federal Customs law. The goal is to simplify custom procedures and speed up the export trade. In the North, a similar project for the Russian-Norwegian border is underway.
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma committee on industry, Valery Draganov, told news paper Rossiyskaya Gazeta that the amendments will give the customs applicants the right to declare the value of the goods by themselves.
- The government’s trust in honest businessmen has to rise, Draganov said. Law-abiding, duty-paying companies will have the opportunity to bring their cargo straight to their own warehouse and send the customs declaration in electronic form, without first having to conduct custom formalities at a temporary storage warehouse.
The Russian Northern Chamber of Commerce has cooperated with Kirkenes-based Finnmark Chamber of Commerce and Oslo-based Norwegian-Russian Chamber of Commerce on preparing a project on ways to minimize the time spent on customs procedures on cargo through the Russian-Norwegian border at border point of Storskog/Borisgleb. Both Norwegian and Russian export companies will take part in the project, which goal is to analyze obstacles to trade and suggest solutions on how to overcome them, web site Promurman reports.
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