The State Customs Committee coped with the tasks

Extended meeting of the Collegium was held at the State Customs Committee. The participants were the President of the Republic Vadim Krasnoselsky, Chairman of the Supreme Council Alexander Korshunov, heads of ministries and departments, representatives of the PRB.

The Chairman of the State Customs Committee Vitaly Neagu, who delivered a report with a report, expanded the overview of customs activities by two years (2017 and 2018) in order to show the work of customs officers in a comparative dynamic.

One of the important areas of work of customs structures in this period was the implementation of legal reform. This was not a revision of the regulatory framework, but a complete revision of such a fundamental legislative act as the Customs Code. The result of the joint work of representatives of the State Customs Committee, deputies of the Supreme Council, business community was the introduction of more than four hundred amendments. Last year, customs officers worked under the new Customs Code.

The change in legislation has led to simplification of customs procedures for various categories of participants in foreign economic activity. The result of the liberalization of customs legislation was the growth of foreign trade in Pridnestrovie: in comparison with the previous year in 2018, it grew by 27% and amounted to almost $ 2 billion. Exports increased by 30% (almost $ 700 million), and imports by 24% ($ 1.2 billion).

The general picture of the interaction of customs and economic entities was supplemented by the chairman of the public advisory council at the State Customs Committee of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Boris Kichuk.

Addressing customs officers with the summed up “Well done” Chairman of the Supreme Council Alexander Korshunov described their work in the last two years.

Vadim Krasnoselsky instructed the customs officers and deputies of the Supreme Council to constantly improve the customs legislation; respond quickly to changing circumstances; go on to further simplify the processing of export-import transactions, as well as conduct explanatory work on the basics of the new tax system for individual entrepreneurs. The entry into force of the relevant laws is scheduled for April 1 of the current year.