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MINSK, 18 September (BelTA) – Strategic documents on advancing Eurasian economic integration are aimed at forming common transport and logistics space, BelTA learned from Belarusian Deputy Economy Minister Alesya Abramenko during the 16th international applied science conference “Prospects of development of customs legislation: Balance of trust and control” in Minsk.
The deputy economy minister identified the key avenues of joint work with the State Customs Committee within the framework of Belarus’ chairmanship over Eurasian Economic Union bodies that directly or indirectly affect interests of the private sector, exporters, and residents of free economic zones.
Alesya Abramenko said: “The first one is to improve customs regulation taking into account the practice of its application. The topical task is to correct the Customs Code’s part that regulates foreign digital trade. The second important avenue is the realization of the State Customs Committee’s initiative proposals on the Eurasian track. In particular, we are talking about the experiment concerning navigation seals, the requalification of individual goods in compliance with the Eurasian Economic Union’s Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, matters concerning digital trade in goods, the adjustment of the lists of goods that are exported and imported on the basis of permissions, matters concerning the filling in and the registration of commodity declarations.”
She spoke at length about the draft Declaration 2030. The action plan on implementing the document is going through the reconciliation process in the states and is supposed to be approved by the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission by the end of the year. It includes about 17 mechanisms and 40 events and measures meant to form the common transport and logistics space.
“With this in mind plans have been made to simplify and digitize as much as possible the procedures of customs administration of international freight transit shipments. Promptly sharing information between the customs services is as important. The development of the unified system of customs transit in the Eurasian Economic Union will also be furthered by the inclusion of interested third countries into the system. And we will have to exercise a lot of efforts together in order to successfully accomplish these ambitious goals,” the deputy economy minister stressed.
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