Customs Broker Service in Russia

Trans-Business was one of the first companies in the Russian Federation to be included in the Single Register of Customs Broker in accordance with the requirements of the new Customs Code which became effective from January 01, 2004.

The activities of a customs broker include customs clearance of goods and vehicles and other intermediary functions related to customs procedures, such as:

- conducting preliminary review of documents and providing consultancy on preparing a complete package of documents for customs clearance;

- monitoring of acceptable prices and customs payments (customs logistics);

- preparing documents for customs clearance;

- customs clearance or a wide range of commodity categories as per the Commodity Classifier for Foreign Economic Activity, containerized and non-containerized cargoes and goods arriving by road or rail;

- arranging for the payment of customs duties for the declared goods and vehicles;

- arranging for different forms of customs control;

- arranging for veterinary, phytosanitary and other kinds of governmental control over the declared goods;

- representing the consignee’s interests during the customs inspection;

- keeping record of goods and vehicles declared by the customs broker;

- developing, in cooperation with the customs authorities, special-purpose schemes of customs clearance for large participants of foreign economic activity;

- providing consultancy services on foreign economic activity and customs legislation.

Task 19. Ask questions to elicit the underlined information:

1. A customs broker performs transactions at ports on behalf of other parties.

2. Customs brokers submit necessary information and appropriate payments to CBP on behalf of their clients and charge them a fee for this service.

3. There are approximately 11, 000 active licensed customs brokers in the United States.

4. Trans-Business was one of the first companies in the Russian Federation to be included in the Single Register of Customs Broker in accordance with the requirements of the new Customs Code which became effective from January 01, 2004.

5. The activities of a customs broker include customs clearance of goods and vehicles and other intermediary functions related to customs procedures.

Task 20. Read, translate the text and find the Russian equivalents to the following words and word-combinations:

1) Customs bodies_______

2) Customs affairs_______

3) supervising observance___________

4) ensuring execution_______________

5) commodities_______________

6) joint control________________

7) favorable conditions______________

8) fighting smuggling_______________

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