OREANDA-NEWS. October 10, 2013. The exports will be cleared on more advantageous conditions and within simplified customs formalities. This is provided for by protocols signed by Directors of the Customs Services of Moldova and Russia Tudor Balitchi and Andrei Belyaninov.

In particular, the protocols were singed on exchange with information about customs value of good moved between Russia and Moldova, on reciprocal recognition of some results of the customs control over goods and vehicles moved between RM and RF. The documents were signed in the frameworks of the 58th sitting of the CIS Council of Customs Service Directors, held in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on October, 3 and are coming into effect in 10 days after the signing. The protocols stipulate creation of more favourable conditions for RM and RF exporters and will favour development of the bilateral trade between the two states.

The documents will help ensure effective control over the correctness of declaring a customs value of goods exported from Moldova to Russia, address fraud and respond tax evasion. The reciprocal recognition of results of customs inspections seems to be of the greatest importance, since it is applied to the customs value of goods established by an export country, with the exception of cases when suspicions of evident fraud emerge.

According to Director of the RF Customs Service Andrei Belyaninov, the protocols signed are aimed at simplifying customs clearance for all kinds of commodities, including that agricultural, at reducing a number of accompanying documents and shortening the time needed for the clearance. As he emphasized, the issue of export of Moldovan fruit and vegetables to Russia has nothing in common with the customs field and the protocols signed are not the last. According to Tudor Balitchi, the customs Service of Moldova is going to further take efforts to simplify export of Moldovan goods to Russia and to get rid economic agents of obstacles created by customs formalities which are, on the contrary, expected to push forward the foreign trade of Moldova.