Customs administration in the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space

Prospects for further development

Eurasian Economic CommissionDepartment of Customs Legislation and Law Enforcement Practice

The Customs Regulation Segment in Eurasian Economic Commission

Member of the Board – Ministerfor customs cooperation

Vladimir Goshin(The Republic of Belarus)

Secretariat of the Member of the Board – Minister

for customs cooperation

- Customs Legislation- Customs Operations and Customs Control- Customs Payments, Customs Value and Country of Origin- Classification of Goods- Advanced Customs Technologies- Risk analysis and Post-Release Control

- Customs Infrastructure Development- Customs Information Technologies- Integration of Customs Authorities Information Systems-Automation of Control, Risk Management and Analysis

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Department of Customs InfrastructureDepartment of Customs Legislation and

Law Enforcement Practice

The stages of the control’s coordinated types transferring to the external borders of the Customs Union

The Russian – Kazakhstan border

The Russian – Belorussian border

Removal of customs clearance and customs control of goods being in free circulation in the territory of the Republic of

Kazakhstan July 1, 2010

Absence of customs control July 1, 2011

Removal of customs clearance and customs control of goods being in free circulation in the territory of the Republic of Belarus July 1, 2010

Single policy in the field of customs regulation (achievements)

Single customs territory

Single trade regime with third party countries

The allocation of customs duties between the Member States of the Customs Union

Customs Union Commodity Classification of Foreign Economic Activity, Common Customs Tariff and other single measures regulating foreign trade

The single customs legislation defining the unified customs clearance

Absence of the customs control at the internal borders between the Member States of the Customs Union

The single rules of country origin and customs valuation of goods

High level of realization

The Customs Legislation of the Customs Union

The Customs Code of the Customs Union

The international agreements concluded on various aspects of customs regulation

The decisions of Eurasian economic commission (on the issues defined by the Customs Code or the international Agreements)

National legislation of the Member States of the Customs Union

The application of customs procedures

Customs examinations

The approval of the forms of customs documents and the order of their completion

The order of the preliminary information

Ensuring the identical classification of goods

Ensuring the identical application of customs legislation

Commission's jurisdiction (Decisions)

The procedure of declaring goods

The procedure of control of the customs value

The Current Issues for Realization of the Single Policy in the Customs Regulation Sphere are following:

The different amount of obligations made when acceding to international conventions

The different levels of IT- development and the electronic document flow. These different levels restrain the expansion of the electronic declaring of goods and cooperation with other government agencies

The significant segment of differing national regulations, due to a lack of harmonization of tax, currency and other legislation

The existence of bilateral agreements governing bilateral trade of a Member State of the Customs Union with third party countries

The lack of harmonization between the Member States of the Customs Union for customs offences and penalties for them in the administrative and criminal legislation

The Amendments to the Customs Code

Eliminating of Inaccuracies and loopholes

Reducing time limits for customs bodies

Extending time limits for businesses

Reducing the number of documents required for declaring and transit

Replacing paper documents for the data from information systems of state agencies

The Drafts of the International Agreements between the Member States of the Customs Union

The agreement on the considerations of application of Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets

The agreement on the procedure of transfer of goods through pipelines and power transmission lines

The agreement on the considerations of application of Customs Convention on the A.T.A. Carnet for the Temporary Admission of Goods and Convention on Temporary Admission

The agreement on simplifications for importing of goods by individuals

The agreement on simplifications associated with the Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi

Other agreements

Fixing Painful Issues for Businesses

Such as:

The elimination of the national segment of rules for completing customs declarations

The establishment of single rules for classifying controversial goods

The simplification of customs operations for temporary imported or exported road vehicles

The introduction of preliminary information for other modes of transport

Ensuring the unity of common customs processes

The issues concerned with customs value

The procedure for declaring and controlling the customs value, in the case when the final determination of such customs value is delayed

The procedure for declaring and controlling the customs value of the goods in case of damage due to accident or force majeure

Once these documents have been released, importers will be able to declare the customs value of the exchange commodity correctly, and also the customs value in the case of royalty payments

New method for the correction of a customs declaration

Form for correcting the customs value will be combined with the correction declaration form

Simplifications for foreign economic traders

Key Issues of the Main Directions for Improving Customs Administration until 2015

The priority of electronic documents over paper documents

Building the Single Window environment

The automatic release of goods

Reducing the number of the documents required for customs declaring

Improving the system of risk management by the means of the customs and tax reputation of foreign trade operator analyzing

Creating the integrated information system for the intergovernmental exchange of data and electronic documents on the base of the integrated informational system of internal and foreign trade

Thank you for your attention!