Belarus Customs to switch to automated release of exports in H2 2013

In his words, in the first half of the year the Customs intends to switch to the automated registration of commodity declarations submitted by economic operators in a digital form. In the second half of the year the Customs will switch to the scheme now used for statistics declarations, with Belarusian exports to be released automatically. Sergei Borisyuk explained that the scheme will not be applied to all commodities but only those, which are not subject to export duties.

The Deputy Chairman noted the novelty will be implemented as part of one of the last year's most important projects. The so-called Digital Customs will be continued this year, too. In his opinion, the automated export procedure will be available for roughly 80% of Belarus' export in H2 2013.

Sergei Borisyuk said that this year the State Customs Committee will focus on collecting customs payments in full for the sake of replenishing the revenues of the central state budget. Apart from that, the Customs will work to enable effective customs control with minimal time costs at the border while the foreign trade of the Eurasian economic space member states is rising. The Committee will also continue forming the legal base for the customs service of the Single Economic Space member states taking into account national interests of Belarus.

There are also plans to drastically increase information exchange with economic operators, which are involved in foreign trade, via the unified computerized payment system, added Sergei Borisyuk. The border checkpoints Grigorovshchina and Peschatka are scheduled for opening as part of the government program to develop the infrastructure of automobile checkpoints at the state border by 2015. There are also plans to commission a transportation and logistics center near the village of Shchitomirichi, Minsk Oblast.

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