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TRUCKING MARKETS * Russia - Customs as a Trade Barrier
Doing business in the Former Soviet Union means living with contradictions
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Moscow,Russia -Logistics Management (London,UK), by Ekaterina (Russia) -8 August 2009: ... National and local government agencies frequently contradict each other's laws and regulations; government statistics often say one thing while the situation in reality may be quite different... One area where international traders can count on plenty of contradictions—not to mention unpredictable, arbitrary decisions—is customs. Even as governments are pushing trade development initiatives, their own customs bureaucracies seem to be intent on preventing goods from moving efficiently across their borders... For one thing, there may be little consistency between customs organizations within a single country. A case in point is Russia, where for years many foreign shippers chose to send their Russia-bound cargo to the port of Kotka, Finland, then transship it by road rather than deal with Baltic Customs, the organization in charge at the Port of St. Petersburg. Baltic Customs remains subject to severe criticism by those who deal with it. Yet use of the Kotka route has greatly declined because, says one informant, customs authorities who oversee road transportation began operating at the same level of arbitrariness as their Baltic Customs counterparts... Some have concluded that it may simply not be a commercially viable activity to clear customs in the FSU. I once was told by a customs official here that in the minds of customs agents, importers are all thieves who are trying to rob the state of its just taxes...
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