Suggestions to the exporter

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Pre-reading exercise

Unit 1

CHAPTER IV Import/Export operations

1. What are the responsibilities of the Russia’s Customs Service?

2. What advice could you give to the exporter for faster customs clearance?

3. Which documents required for customs clearance do you know?

The major responsibility of the Russia’s Customs Service is to administer the Customs Code of Russian Federation. Primary duties include the assessment and collection of all duties, taxes, and fees on imported merchandise, the enforcement of customs and related laws. As a major enforcement organization, the Customs Service combats smuggling and fraud on the revenue and enforces the regulations of numerous other Federal agencies at ports of entry and along the land and sea borders of Russian Federation.

Suggestions to the exporter for faster customs clearance

1. Include all information required on your customs invoices.

2. Prepare your invoices carefully. Type them clearly. Allow sufficient space between lines. Keep the data within each column.

3. Make sure that your invoices contain the information that would be shown on a well-prepared packing list.

4. Mark and number each package so that it can be identified with the corresponding marks and numbers appearing on your invoice.

5. Show on your invoice a detailed description of each item of goods contained in each individual package.

6. Mark your goods legibly and conspicuously with the name of the country of origin, unless they are specifically exempted from the country of origin marking requirements, and with such other marking as required by the marking laws of the Russian Federation.

7. Comply with the provisions of any special laws of the Russian Federation, which may apply to your goods, such as the laws relating to food, drugs, cosmetics, alcoholic beverages, and radioactive materials.

8. Observe closely the instructions with respect to invoicing, packaging, marking, labeling, etc., sent you by your customer in the Russian Federation. He has probably made a careful check of the requirements, which will have to be met when you arrive.

9. Work with Russia’s Customs in developing packing standards for your commodities.

10. Establish sound security procedures at your facility and while transporting your goods for shipment. Do not allow narcotics smugglers the opportunity to introduce narcotics into your shipment.

11. Consider shipping on a carrier participating in the Automated Manifest System.

12. If you use a licensed customs broker to handle the transaction, consider using a firm that participates in the Automated Broker Interface (ABI).

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