New customs declaration rules for Customs Union corporations in 2011

Starting 1 January 2011 Customs Union juridical persons will have to fill in customs declarations in line with new rules, Head of the Customs Control Organization Office of the State Customs Committee of Belarus Vladimir Orlovsky told media on 29 December.

The Customs Union will have a unified structure of digital copies. It will be filled in in line with common rules in the three countries of the Customs Union.

Instructions to fill in the declarations were not available when Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia started working on the Customs Union’s Customs Code on 1 July 2010. Now the instructions have been approved by the Customs Union Commission and will be enforced on 1 January 2011.

New merchandise declarations will be used as well as new transit declarations and new commodity classifiers. Belarus’ Customs also passed several resolutions on electronic structures and peculiarities of filling in certain fields in the customs declarations.

Vladimir Orlovsky specified that the new rules will apply to juridical persons that present their commodities for customs processing.

“We have tested the system and believe that everything will be okay,” said the representative of Belarus’ Customs.

The official admitted that the new rules may cause certain difficulties for economic entities. With this in mind an information center has been set up by the State Customs Committee of Belarus. Its services will be available in Minsk at 9:00-18:00 via a phone hotline 219 41 00. Most experienced customs officials will work in the center, including those that had taken part in working out resolutions of the Customs Union Commission and legal acts of the State Customs Committee of Belarus. After the information center is shut down, consultations will be available from the State Customs Committee and customs houses in a routine manner.

SES agreements to create new economic order in Customs Union

The agreements to set up the Single Economic Space (SES) will create a fundamentally new economic order in the Customs Union, Vadim Popov, chairman of the permanent commission for economy, budget and finance of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly, told reporters when commenting on the ratification by the upper chamber of 18 international treaties on the SES.

“This package of agreements is a big step towards a fundamentally new economic order in the three states. I sincerely hope that our colleagues from the State Duma, the Federation Council of Russia, the Senate and Majilis of Parliament of Kazakhstan will promptly conduct internal procedures so that the economic space becomes operational,” Vadim Popov said.

The senator stressed that the work in this direction will be continued next year. “We need to bring domestic legislation in line with the agreements and to develop a whole package of new documents to facilitate the operation of the Single Economic Space,” he said.

The ratified agreements have 800 printed pages, according to Vadim Popov.

In accordance with the agreement, the Single Economic Space in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will become fully operational on 1 January 2012.

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