BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

05/01/2010

Customs Union of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus starts its work

The Customs Union of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus will strengthen our economy and will open new prospects. The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, said in his New Year's congratulation speech, Kazakhstan Today agency reports citing the text of the ew Year's congratulation of the President of Kazakhstan published on the official site of the head of state.

"We will be living in the Customs Union from January 1 together with Belarus and Russia. We will start creation of the uniform economic space. It will strengthen our economy, will open new prospects, and will raise quality of life of Kazakhstan citizens," the President of Kazakhstan said.

The Presidents of the EurAsEC countries made the decision on creation of the Customs Union on October 6, 2007. In October, 2008 Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan created the Customs Union Commission.

Formation of the uniform customs territory assumes cancellation of customs borders between the Customs Union states and shifting all kinds of state control, except boundary, to the customs border of the union. It is planned that control will be cancelled from July 1, 2010 at the Belarus-Russian border and in Kazakhstan - from July 1, 2011. The uniform custom duties in the territory of three countries will come into force on January 1, 2010. The customs code will start to work from July 1 of 2010.

Source:

http://eng.gazeta.kz/art.asp?aid=141615


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