Customs control abolition at Kazakh-Russian border to be considered in Jan, 2010
17:52, 21 October 2009
COW. October 21. KAZINFORM /Narymbek Ismagulov/ The Kazakh side stands for abolition of customs control at internal borders of Russia and Kazakhstan from July 1, 2010. Kazakh First Vice Prime Minister Umirzak Shukeyev has announced it at the ninth session of the EurAsEC Customs Union Commission in Moscow.
"We discussed the issues of coming into force of the Customs Code and abolition of customs processing at the Kazakh-Russian border. We had to cancel customs control at the Kazakh-Russian border on July 1, 2011", U.Shukeyev said.
"The Kazakh delegation proposes to make it one year earlier, from July 1, 2010. We decided to discuss all issues and return to the mechanism of such acceleration in January, 2010", the First Vice Prime Minister added.
U.Shukeyev added that the sides considered the issue of introduction of common customs tariffs. "All issues connected with transitional periods are agreed. Common customs tariffs are agreed on 100 percent and are ready for discussion by our presidents", he emphasized.