Russian Customs Stipulates That Parcels Of Less Than 200 Euros Must Also Be Taxed.

Russian Customs recently stipulates that packages worth less than 200 euros must also be subject to customs duties.

Customs clearance is required to complete an independent customs document for each parcel.

This regulation has greatly delayed the speed of customs clearance of express companies.

Recent reports show that:

The Customs recently requested that enterprises that mail packages to overseas must pay customs duties, and that the value of packages is too low to be exempted.

This provision has attracted widespread criticism from the express service industry.

According to the regulations, enterprises must pay 750 roubles to 1000 roubles when they send overseas value equal to or less than 200 euros (217 US dollars).

In addition, enterprises must fill in a separate package for each package.

This greatly delayed the clearance process and brought great trouble to the courier company.

Previously, when the customs clearance was smooth, the courier company only registered once a day and could send 400-500 parcels.

Russian Federation customs chief Tatyana Golendeyeva told the Interfax news agency on Monday that customs appealed to Russia's first deputy prime minister, Igor Shuvalov, to cancel the tariff.

This tariff is not new, but customs officials carry out the tax in different ways, so the Federal Customs will clarify this misunderstanding.

However, due to the increased burden of completing forms, the clearance speed of express companies is affected.

Ivan Shatskikh, chief executive of UPS Russia Company, said: "customs officers can not handle thousands of documents in one day without adding staff."

Russian Federation customs told a number of Companies in an e-mail last Friday that it would levy the tax.

Up to now, Russian postal service has said there has been no change in its delivery of goods.