OREANDA-NEWS  Since the beginning of 2022, the Federal Customs Service (FCS) has reduced transfers to the Russian budget by almost 10 percent, to 5,627 trillion rubles. For the same period last year, the fees amounted to 6,249 trillion rubles. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the data of the department.

In just 11 months, more than 3.5 thousand declarations for goods were registered, including 1.24 thousand for export and 2.31 thousand for import. 84.82 percent of declarations were automatically registered, 32.84 percent were issued. The share of declarations for goods with customs inspection of the total amount was 1.39 percent.

Earlier, the head of the Federal Customs Service, Vladimir Bulavin, during a speech at the Federation Council, said that in six months, almost nine billion dollars worth of critically important goods were imported into Russia through parallel imports. The total volume of parallel imports reached $17 billion.

In October, the first deputy head of the head of the service, Ruslan Davydov, noted that from January to September, a record positive foreign trade balance was registered in Russia, that is, the difference between exports and imports. Against the background of the refusal of Western countries to supply a number of items, the difference reached $ 251 billion.