Custom Formalities

It is obligatorily for all the goods, crossing the border of Russian Federation to undergo the procedure of customs clearance. That is why proper registration of goods is one of the most important areas of any Russian company-importer’s activity. However it is not always efficient and feasible to create inside the company its own department consisting of highly qualified specialists. Very often less expensive solution is applying for the services of customs broker.

You can learn more information about customs clearance from our article.

Customs broker is a specific organisation, processing custom formalities for client-company and representing its interests in customs authorities. Solid experience and high qualification of Cargo Terminal Rimini specialists allow us to accomplish customs clearance and External Economic Activity formalities quickly and efficiently, offering professional advice for all related matters.

Stages of collaboration with customs broker:

• Signing a contract
• Preparation of documentation kit, necessary for obtaining registration of client-company as participant in External Economic Activity.
• Registration of client-company at customs post.
• Selection of the most suitable and convenient customs regime.
• Preparation of documentation for goods certification and undergoing customs formalities according to regime chosen.
• Contract verification for complete compliance with customs requirements.
• Calculation of service costs – customs payments, selection of FEACN codes (Foreign Economic Activity Commodity Nomenclature), delivery, etc.
• Coordination of documentation kit with customs broker.
• Delivery of shipment to Russian Federation and its registration at customs post.
• Delivery of shipment to a warehouse in Moscow or other regions of Russia.

Services, offered by Cargo Terminal Rimini, correspond to Russian and international legislation requirements completely. Our company bears responsibility before customers for security of consolidated shipment, time-efficiency and quality of its delivery.
You can learn all the details of broker’s job, while arranging customs formalities for consolidated cargo, from series of our articles.

What is included in customs formalities for consolidated shipments

The process of customs registration consists of two stages:
1. Preliminary operations.

• Their goal is to speed-up and simplify the process of main, essential customs procedures, which follow after. Preliminary operations include:
• Informing customs offices about the fact of crossing the customs border of RF, and also about the intension to transport goods/vehicles beyond RF;
• Arrival of vehicles, goods and accompanying documents to the point defined by RF Customs office.
• Temporary storage

2. Main/Essential customs operations.
The goal is placing the goods, vehicles under specified customs regime conditions.
The main customs operations also consist of several stages of customs control:

2.1. Admission, registration and keeping record of customs declarations
2.2. Verification of goods codification according to FEACN of Russia and country of origin, and also observance of nontariff regulation measures.
2.3. Currency control and custom costs control
2.4. Duties payment control
2.5. Inspection and release of goods.