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Russia adds more offices to TIR ban

The International Road Transport Union reports that Russia's Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation has further extended its restrictions on TIR guarantees to the North Caucasian and Southern Customs Regions, as well as the airport Customs offices of Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo. This was despite a ruling by the country's Supreme Arbitration Court about a fortnight ago that the Customs Service's actions were illegal. Russia had been planning to effectively withdraw ... [+]

Russia’s TIR ban is illegal, says supreme court

The Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation - the country's highest judicial body – ruled that Russia's Federal Customs Service plans to leave the TIR system for road transport – were illegal. Russia had been planning to effectively withdraw the TIR system throughout its entire territory in mid-August, before postponing ... [+]

More areas added to Russia’s TIR ban

The creeping extension of the Russian TIR ban is continuing, with the restrictions also being applied to the Privolzhsky Customs Directorate, the International Road Transport Union reported on 2 October. The IRU said that the move would particularly affect the Bashkortostan, Nizhegorodskaya, Orenburg, Perm, Samara, Saratov, Tatarstan, Ulyanovsk and Privolzhskaya ... [+]

Urals added to Russia’s TIR ban

Russia has extended its restriction on TIR guarantees to the Ural Customs region, as well as the Siberian and far east regions, the IRU reports. The move will affect the Chelyabinsk, Khanty-Mamsyisk, Koltsovo, Magnitogorsk, Tyumen, Uralskaya Operatyvnaya, Yamalo-Nenets and Yekaterinburg regional customs offices. Although the exact scope of the measures ... [+]

Russia steps up Lithuania checks

Lithuania has joined Ukraine in complaining that Russia has imposed new border checks and has called on the EU to take action, according to euobserver.com. Foreign minister, Linas Linkevicius said that the Russian authorities had stepped up checks, sample taking and other procedures for all the goods coming from from ... [+]

Russians postpone TIR exit – again

The Russian Customs Service has once again postponed a threat to withdraw from the TIR bond system for road transport – this time to 1 December. However, it will withdraw TIR for goods travelling to and from its Siberia and far east customs areas. The announcement came on 13 September, the ... [+]

New dispute over Russia border checks

A fresh row has broken out over Russia's border procedures, this time over delays to traffic to and from Ukraine, reports EUObserver. European Commission trade spokesman, John Clancy sent a warning to Moscow after it was reported that Russia had brought road and rail transport with its neighbour to a ... [+]

More Russian TIR dialogue

A working group composed of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation (FCS RF), the Association of International Road Transport Carriers (ASMAP) and the IRU help its first meeting to discuss the Russian TIR issue on 13 August. The IRU repeated its call on the FCS RF to withdraw ... [+]

Nurminen offers Russia solution

Finnish-based Russian transport specialist Nurminen Logistics said that goods may be declared using the TIR declaration procedure only if payment of customs fees and taxes was guaranteed by obtaining separate insurance, if the Russians carry out their threat. Nurminen pledged to find its customs “the best solution”, pointing out that, ... [+]

Russia postpones TIR withdrawal

Russia's Federal Customs Service has postponed its threatened exit from the TIR system for road transport , originally planned for mid-August, until 14 September, according to a report in the Moscow Times. The dispute was over an alleged 20 billion roubles-worth of duty (about £400 million) owned to the customs ... [+]

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