The 55th meeting of the Joint Board of Customs Services of the EAEU member states was held in Brest under FCS head Valery Pikalёv. Source: FCS Russia.
Customs chiefs of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia (by video) took part, together with EEC Customs Cooperation Minister Sergey Shklyaev. Nineteen current agenda items and follow-up on earlier decisions were reviewed.
Topics included intermediate-office procedures when goods differ from the transit declaration, inspection deadlines before release, passenger declarations, bulk goods leaving by sea, tax-intensive goods lists and unified value risk indicators.
HS classification positions were agreed for several products, including round snacks, beverage ingredients, capsule-filling machines, a cinema semi-trailer and wire mesh. An IDC operators’ skills contest was wrapped up; the next Joint Board meeting is planned in Armenia in Q4.
