A trilateral meeting of the customs and tax services of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia was held in Almaty on the initiative of the Kazakh side. The Kazakh media report.
The topic of the meeting was the issues of ensuring effective coordination of the actions of the tax and customs services of the three countries.
«Recently, there has been a trend towards an increase in the grey turnover of Chinese goods in the EAEU market. This trend cannot be left without due attention from the governments of our states,» the Deputy Prime Minister — Minister of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan Bakhyt Sultanov said.
He focused on the risks posed by an increase in grey imports: tax shortfalls in budgets, import of counterfeit, low-quality and sometimes unsafe products to the union’s markets. «This factor negatively affects the development of a competitive market in mutual trade, which ultimately jeopardizes the development of certain sensitive sectors of the economy,» Bakhyt Sultanov summed up.
During the talks, the parties discussed the results of last year’s meeting at the level of the ministries of finance of Kazakhstan and Russia with the development of additional measures to implement mutual agreements. Issues of information exchange between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia were considered. The parties noted that the organization of the interaction process will allow solving urgent issues of combating the shadow economy of the three countries.
One of the points on the agenda was the discussion of the problem of reliable reflection of the cost in shipping documents for goods transported in mutual trade.
The parties supported the need for a deeper study of this issue with determining the categories of high-risk exporters and targeted work with them. During the negotiations, they managed to agree on the establishment of trilateral cooperation with the participation of the fiscal and law enforcement agencies of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia for the coming year.
Following the meeting, its participants stressed that the implementation of the agreements reached would give a positive impetus to strengthening cooperation in the customs and tax sphere, which in general would positively influence the economy of the three states.
