Reducing Truck Queues in the Russian Federation

Dear Member,

With reference to the letter sent to our Chamber by TOBB, regarding the initiatives undertaken for the queues formed at the Russian Federation - Georgia Verkhniy Lars border point, for which our Union requested high-level initiatives and a solution, the reply letter dated 08.06.2022 received from the Directorate General of International Trade in Services of the Ministry of Trade states that, in a letter conveyed by the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation to our Customs Counsellor's Office at the Embassy in Moscow, it was pointed out in summary that one of the reasons for the heavy queues is the failure to submit in time the preliminary notifications provided for in Article 11 of the EAEU Customs Code. It is stated that preliminary notifications may be submitted to the checkpoint by the carrier's representative upon arrival, and that the absence of a preliminary notification may be the main reason for long waiting times.

The same letter states that, when the said electronic preliminary notifications are made and the documents attached to the declaration are submitted,

• the necessary information such as consignor/consignee/carrier (legal address) is missing from the electronic copies of the preliminary notifications or transit declarations provided by the carrier,
• the data in the electronic document and the documents submitted on paper do not match each other (information is expressed in general or approximate terms),
• full legal address information is missing, with only country and city information included,
• where the shipment consists of 10 or more items, information on the weight and cost of the individual items is not included,
• HS codes compatible with the EAEU Customs Code are not included in the transport documents, and a single HS code may be specified where there is more than one item of goods,
• various currency codes are present in commercial documents for single-lot shipments,
• copies of invoices and packing lists are frequently present during the customs procedure,
• when filling in the transport document (CMR), information on the attached documents is not specified in box no. 5,
• Russian translations of Turkish documents are either entirely absent or incorrect,
• and, in the case of guarantees, it has been reported in some cases that the destination customs office information does not match the information in the transport document.

Kind regards,

Elazığ Chamber of Commerce and Industry

 

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Date Added :2022-06-20 11:22:00