Electronic declaration of imports in Belarus should reach about 90% by the end of 2013

By the end of 2013, electronic declaration of imports in Belarus is expected to reach about 90%. This forecast was announced to journalists by the Chairman of the State Customs Committee of Belarus, Alexander Shpilevsky, after the seventh meeting of the Joint Board of Customs Services of the Customs Union member states, as reported by a BELTA correspondent.

Currently, 95% of exports and 83% of imports are declared electronically in Belarus. This is the best indicator among the CU member states.

According to their heads, Andrey Belyaninov and Marzhit Yesenbayev, Russian and Kazakh customs authorities are also actively implementing electronic declaration in the operations of commercial entities. "This is about bringing the positions of the three countries closer on this issue. The implementation of electronic declaration is not a problem," noted the head of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation, Andrey Belyaninov. Although he could not name specific deadlines for the full transition to electronic declaration of goods in the Customs Union, he expressed confidence that it would happen in the near future.

The seventh meeting of the Joint Board of Customs Services of the Customs Union member states took place today in Novopolotsk. It was dedicated to a block of issues concerning the improvement of customs legislation regulating the procedure for providing preliminary information, the organization of information interaction between the customs services of Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan, and the application of the TIR Convention for the transportation of goods across the territory of the Customs Union countries. A meeting of the Board of the Customs Committee of the Union State also took place. The events were attended by the heads of the customs services of Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan: Alexander Shpilevsky, Andrey Belyaninov, Marzhit Yesenbayev.

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