SITTING OF HEADS OF CUSTOMS SERVICES OF CIS COUNTRIES STARTS IN YEREVAN

Noyan Tapan
Dec 14, 2007

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 14, NOYAN TAPAN. The 46th sitting of the heads of
customs services of CIS member states opened in Yerevan on December
14. Among issues on the agenda are reviewing the international
legal basis related to the customs sector of CIS member states,
organizaing the exchange of preliminary information on goods and
vehicles transported through customs borders, etc.

The chairman of the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Armenia
Armen Avetisian said that among issues to be discussed, the problem
of bringing the CIS countries’ classification codes of goods into
line with each other is especially important. In his words, as the
Asykuda system has already been introduced in all customs services of
the CIS, the existence of a united system of goods classification is
important in terms of cotrolling effieciently the commodity turnover
in these countries.

It was stated that the main goals of the council of heads of customs
services of CIS member states is extension of economic integration,
coordination of their actions, improvement of the customs legislation
and unification of the customs procedures.

The delegations of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrghyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are participating in
the sitting.

In 2006, Armenia’s export and import shares with CIS member states
made up 21% and 31% respectively as compared with 18% and 28% in the
previous year.

The same indices made 30.5% and 33.5% respectively in the first eleven
months of this year.