Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 8 / Trend E. Kosolapova/
The Heads of Customs Services of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) and Customs Union (CU) will discuss cooperation issues in Astana on Dec. 9, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported referring to the Customs Control Committee under the Kazakh Ministry of Finance.
The meeting will discuss on staff training, information exchange, cooperation in goods and customs payments re-exports control, implementation of post-custom control, formation of statistics and commodity nominating.
Such meetings are held twice a year to discuss and make decision on international and regional cooperation in customs service.
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics.
The Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) originated from the CIS customs union between Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan. One of the Organization's chief activity vectors is to ensure the dynamic evolution of the Community states through coordinating their economic and social reforms while effectively using their economic potentials to improve the living standards of their peoples.
Customs Union is the union of neighboring states. It includes Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan and operates since Jan.1, 2010. A single economic space was created under it to develop free trade, as well as to set higher tariffs on the external borders of the association.
The agreed forms of state control have been moved to external borders of the Customs Union. A common system of customs rules and regulations has been introduced. As a result, mutual turnover within the Customs Union increased by nearly 40 percent in the first half of 2011.