OREANDA-NEWS. January 06, 2010. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has signed the bills on ratifying the package of 13 international agreements that make up the legal base of the Customs Union within the EurAsEC.

In particular, the Belarusian President has signed the bills on ratifying the protocol on terms and application of tariff duties different from the unified customs tariffs in exclusive cases. The protocol is aimed at the common foreign trading policy of the state members of the Customs Union. In addition, Alexander Lukashenko has signed the protocol on tariff preferences and the protocol on unified system of the Customs Union tariff preferences.

Alexander Lukashenko has signed the bill on ratifying the agreement on Secretariat of the Customs Union Commission and the protocol on exchange of information between the customs authorities of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia.

The President of Belarus has also signed the bill on ratifying the agreement on terms and application of tariff quotas. The agreement provides the preferences on the import of agricultural goods.

Apart from that, Alexander Lukashenko has signed the bills on ratifying the agreements regulating the customs legal relationships between the Customs Union members. The agreements are aimed at the approximation of the national customs legislatures of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia. These documents include the agreements on types of customs procedures and regimes, declaration of goods and their customs values, calculation and payment of customs duties, calculation and payment of customs charges, customs clearance and control, rules of establishing the origin of goods that are exported from developing and least developed countries, and order of the declaration of goods.