​RUSSIAN AND TRANSNISTRIAN CUSTOMS SERVICES AGREED ON INFORMATION EXCHANGE

Customs services of the Russian Federation and the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan republic (PMR) signed a protocol on organizing exchange of information about goods and vehicles, moving between Russia and Transnistria.

According to the region’s customs committee, working groups have already been formed, which have to agree technical and organizational conditions of informational interaction. After that, the exchange system will be launched for exploitation.

“The protocol will allow removing difficulties, faced by Transnistrian enterprises at exporting to Russia. It contributes to simplification and acceleration of customs control procedures at Transnistrian cargoes’ crossing the Russian border due to the identification of goods from PMR in the total volume of exports from Moldova. This means that our goods are excluded from risk profiles, established against Moldovan goods that lead to additional inspections by customs agencies”, committee chairwoman Svetlana Klimenkova said.

According to her, the document becomes an efficient instrument of hidden re-export combating.

“Mechanisms, provided by this document, will allow excluding unfair schemes for supplying agricultural products to the Russian market under the guise of goods, produced in Transnistria”, the official maintains.

As Infotag has already reported, in early 2016, a scandal broke out around the re-exporting of Polish apples to Russia under the guise of Moldovan fruit by several Moldovan companies. They were supplying goods on the basis of false certificates, which said that the fruit were harvested in Transnistrian orchards.