CUSTOMS BROKERS INSTITUTE TO BE APPLIED IN ARMENIA

arminfo
2008-08-21 15:15:00

ArmInfo. Today Armenian National Assembly made alterations and
amendments to Customs Code and to the law "On licensing" and "On
state tax".

As chairman of State Income Committee Gagik Khachatryan said in his
speech, the submitted draft law is directed to putting the relations
"importer-customs officer" in order. In particular, the customs
declaration of the imported materials is meant, after processing
of which waste appeared which should be also declared. The draft
law also supposes application of the new type of license activity
according to which economic agents, which deal with organization of
the customs stores, should be licensed.

The state tax for giving license will be equal to the one thousandth
size of the basic tariff. The customs stores at these territories will
function independently. This measure will make it possible to apply
customs terminals institution in Armenia. For this reason, register
controlled by the customs structures, will be introduced. And customs
brokers will be responsible for formation of the customs declarations
and customs movement. Introduction of this institution supposes to
limit the cases when customs declarations may be considered invalid and
to avoid double declarations. All the data regarding the post-customs
control will be saved in the computer basis. The customs structures
will have a right to take part in preliminary investigation of breach
of law.