PMs of Customs Union member states sign range of documents
20:44, 9 June 2009
MOSCOW. June 9. KAZINFORM /Yernur Akanbai/ A range of documents has been signed today at the session of the Heads of Governments of the Customs Union member states.
Under the participation of Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov, Chairman of the Russian Government Vladimir Putin and Belarusian Prim Minister Sergey Sidorskiy signed: the Agreement on the process of introduction and application of measures, concerning external trade on the common Customs territory as for third countries; the Agreement on regulation of licensing in the field of foreign trade; the protocol on the rules of the Center of the Customs Statistics of the Customs Union.
The establishment of the Customs Union will allow to hold single procedure of customs for all goods arriving from third countries, after which the goods will be in free transit between the three countries. The goods, produced in the participating countries will be transited free as well. The countries will follow the Single Customs Code.