Determination of Transit Periods, and Application of Penalties for Exceeding Transit Periods and Changes of Destination/Exit Customs Office

Dear Member,

In the letter sent to our Chamber by TOBB, with reference to the letter dated 05.05.2022 and numbered 74329524 received from the Directorate General of Customs of the Ministry of Trade, it is reported that a number of facilitations have been introduced in order to reduce the congestion experienced in vehicle entry and exit procedures at the Sarp Border Gate due to the current situation between Russia and Ukraine.

The said letter further

• states that, when departure customs offices determine the transit period for transport under the transit regime, excluding vehicles fitted with an ATS device, the congestion experienced at the Sarp and Aktaş Customs Directorates and the temporary closure of the Türkgözü Customs Gate are to be taken into account and the transit period determined accordingly; and furthermore that, in order to ensure that the Aktaş Customs Directorate can also be actively used owing to the congestion at the Sarp border gate, the administrative fine provided for in Article 241 of Customs Law No. 4458 is not to be applied to vehicles for which the Sarp Customs Directorate was declared as the destination/exit customs office but which were dispatched under the transit regime to the Aktaş Customs Directorate by changing the destination customs office,
• that, in checks carried out on exceeding transit periods for transit declarations (NCTS declarations, TIR Carnets, export accompanying documents) due to the congestion at border gates, for vehicles entering TIR parks at land border gates in order to establish the queue order before entering the customs area, where the date and time of entry into the TIR park are determined, this date and time are also to be taken into account in determining whether the transit period has been exceeded,
• and that, taking into account that, due to Eid al-Fitr in Azerbaijan and Iran, although the border gates are open, there may be changes in working hours at the relevant customs offices, procedures may slow down accordingly and vehicles may have to wait within the borders of Türkiye, in order to prevent possible losses, no penalty is to be applied, without requiring any supporting document, for exceeding transit periods until 10/05/2022 for declarations made under the transit regime destined for our customs gates opening onto Georgia, Iran and Nakhchivan; and our members are requested to be informed on the matter.

Kind regards,

Elazığ Chamber of Commerce and Industry

 

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Date Added :2022-05-10 11:21:00