The customs of Siberia has opened more than 4,200 cases of administrative offenses

Of the total number of cases of administrative offences filed four months 2020, a third excited on the facts of the so-called “contrabbandieri” of the offences – illegal cross-border movement of goods and vehicles failure to declare goods and failure to comply with the prohibitions and restrictions on their import (export).

Almost half of the violations from this category is associated with non-Declaration and false Declaration of goods – article 16.2 Cao RF customs of the region 1069 filed cases on administrative offenses. More than half of these offences (about 600) were revealed when moving timber and timber products. Traders do not declare the part of a roaming of the forest or under the guise of lumber processed (zero export duty) roughly shaped blocks actually export products (the so-called “grubby”), which refers to other code and has a rate of export duties to 85%.

Customs officials have also frustrated attempts of non-compliance with the prohibitions and restrictions on the importation of goods into the customs territory of the Eurasian economic Union or the Russian Federation. On the facts of these “contrabbandieri” offences over the four months 2020 in the region 373 filed cases on administrative offences (article 16.3 of the administrative code). Basically, this involves failure to provide the customs authority permits for roaming product.

This year as in the past few years, the main subjects of offences continue to be wood and articles of wood (566 cases), and tobacco and industrial substitutes of tobacco, such as Smoking mixtures, cigarettes, tobacco for Shisha (205 cases).

Eight more cases on administrative offences in the category of “contrabandistas” customs of Siberia brought on the facts of illegal cross-border movement of goods and vehicles (article 16.1 of the administrative code).

Background: the main causes and conditions of committing offences in the sphere of customs Affairs is the lack of due diligence and due diligence in compliance with the provisions of the customs legislation, a formal approach to the control of the supply of goods, both on the stage of loading and at their arrival (departure) to (from) customs territory of the EAEU, as well as ignoring the rights stipulated by the customs legislation, providing authoritative Declaration of goods, including in the form of inspection of goods before submission of customs declarations, and filling the customs Declaration solely on the basis of documents and information provided by the contractors, the omission by the declarant in the customs value of the additional costs (insurance premium, transport costs) to be included in the customs value), the partial characteristics of the product (the destination of the goods, incomplete technical description, etc.) that affected the false statement of the product code on the HS EEU; failure to submit permits for the goods because of improper checks established by the legislation of the Eurasian economic Union in respect of goods transported prohibitions and restrictions.

Eva Hlushky,

press Secretary of the Siberian operative customs