05.12.2014

On 5 December 2014, the AEB Customs and Transport Committee  members and other representatives of international businesses in Russia had a meeting with executive officers of the Federal Customs Service to discuss the most acute and problematic issues in customs sphere for businesses operating in Russia. This bi-annual meeting was moderated by Tatiana Golendeeva, State Secretary, First Deputy Head of the Federal Customs Service, and Dmitry Cheltsov, Chairperson of the AEB Customs and Transport Committee.

• list of documents reduction required for customs clearance;
• technology of remote goods’ release;
• customs transit through the territory of the Russian Federation (in particular, to Kazakhstan);
• disharmony of commodity classification in Tariff Nomenclatures of Russian and Eurasian economic union;
• application of TIR Convention on the territory of the Russian Federation;
• the system of information exchange between customs posts. 

Materials of the meeting are available HERE. 

L-R: Wilhelmina Shavshina, Co-chairperson of the AEB Customs and Transport Committee, Julia Hertel, IKEA; Dmitry Cheltsov, Chairperson of the AEB Customs and Transport Committee; Sergei Gusev, Co-chairperson of the AEB Customs and Transport Committee; Andrey Kirienkov, Customs Rus.