CUSTOMS INSPECTIONS IN "PETAK" "SURMALU" "HAYCOP"
Panorama.am
19:26 01/12/2007
RA Customs State Administration started its customs
supervisions. According to the press service of the administration
the supervisions already gave the necessary results. Elmen Carukyan,
the head of the second department of the Customs administration said
that 40 cases were recorded within those several days.
The cases were found not only in frontier customs agencies, but
also in the capital, in trade field during customs supervision. So,
customs supervisions were organized in "Petak", "Surmalu", and "Haycop"
trade houses.
In the result a big amount of food stuff, especially caviar, legumes,
sweets: particularly chocolate, as well as oil were found. According
to the head of the department some part of the goods were from Turkey
without any certificates, some stuff was without any proper documents,
and the others did not have Armenian marks.
But according to the laws – "Customer Right Protection" and "About
Product Security", which, by the way, were applied from July; the
merchandise imported into Armenia for sale must have marks with
Armenian language.
According to Elmen Carukyan, the customs administration will continue
carrying out the supervision and warns all the importers to escape
falsifications.