Customs checks the customer.

Pay online stores will be available only from the account
And to receive parcels from foreign online stores - at your registration address.

Since early January, the Federal Customs Service (FCS) was the demand that the sending of the online stores delivered at the customer registration and pay it by credit card. This will increase the time required for correspondence through customs, alerts the operator. Rules tightened on the background of the Government's initiatives to streamline e-commerce.

The new list of documents required for customs declarations at Sheremetyevo packages from online stores, published on the website of the operator DHL Express. In addition to the copies of the passport registration of the order from the online store, as well as photos of the ordered goods to the customer now need to present an original bank statement indicating the online store as the payee. It is also necessary to present the originals of the contract for the provision of customs declaration and a copy of a credit card. If payment is carried out with another credit card, the customer will have to write an explanatory note explaining the compensation and conditions of the account holder. A separate explanation is required if the delivery of the goods to the recipient address does not match with the address of registration, specified in the passport.





The new rules came into effect from January 4, said the press service of the operator. As explained by the vice president of operations of DHL Express Yuri Shevchenko, a set of documents approved by the Sheremetyevo customs office. The press service of the Federal Customs Service chose not to comment on the "information business, which he posted on his website," adding only that the requirements of the customs authorities based on the legislation of the Russian Federation and the Customs Union.

"If we are talking about strengthening customs clearance of all consignments, it's a disaster. Buyers are completely groundless complicate life, "- said" Kommersant "the president of the National Association of distance selling, Alexander Ivanov. He warns that the timing of mail processing increase. In the community "LiveJournal» Virtualshopping some users already complain about the delay in the delivery of goods. The DHL Express is not commenting. CEO of Internet auction site eBay in Russia Vladimir Dolgov not aware innovations. I have not heard about them, and advisor to the general director of Development "CPCR-Express" Alexander Vassiliev. According to him, to prove the customs value of the parcels and payment on it had before, but it was necessary to submit the documents, if the inspector had doubts. In the "Mail of Russia" stated that the procedure for clearance of international mail in the company has not changed.

The two sides "b" in the TCF and DHL Express have not answered the question of whether the related tightening of registration of premises with the plans of the state to regulate e-commerce. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on January 9 ordered the government to consider the possibility of using the resulting revenue to finance the construction of engineering infrastructure. Proposals must be prepared before 24 February.

Under current rules in Russia can be imported duty-free packages worth up to € 1 thousand. And (or) weighing up to 31 kg per month. In the case of exceeding the limit of duty is 30%, but not less than € 4 per 1 kg. In 2012, Russia imported, according to the Federal Customs Service, 7 million parcels totaling € 2, 8 billion.

Levying duties on parcels more € 1 thousand. Per month can not be administered, the deputy head of the Ministry of Communications recognizes Michael Evraev. "Now there is no way to calculate how much and in what amount the person receives parcels a month, as at the stage of crossing the border are no identifying features allowing sending unmistakably attributed to a particular person. Passport details of the recipient appear only upon delivery to the post office, "- says the official. In his opinion, it is necessary to move from levying taxes on the excess amount received monthly mailings to the duty on each parcel, the value of which exceeds the threshold set in the legislation, as is the case in Europe. In December, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov proposed to lower the duty-free threshold up to € 150 a month. And the fall of the FCS proposed to introduce ten-percentage fee on purchases from online stores in the amount of up to € 1 thousand., As well as limit the number of parcels up to one per month per customer

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