9,000 foreign shipping vessels registered by Baltic Customs in Jan-Sep’14
In January-September 2014, Baltic Customs registered 9,000 foreign shipping vessels, the Customs’ press center says.
The number of private persons crossing the state border in the area of the Baltic Customs responsibility exceeded 1.8 mln.
The number of cargo declarations exceeded 296,000.
In the reported period, the Baltic Customs’ transferred RUB 238 bln of duties and taxes to the federal budget.
The goods were imported from 166 countries (165 countries in January-September 2013), mostly China (16%), Ecuador (9%), Germany (6%), USA (4%). Fruit, meat and polymer materials take the top positions.
Export cargoes were delivered from 139 countries (126 countries in January-September 2013) including Turkey (29%), Spain (18%), Sweden (6%), Denmark (4%), mostly ferrous metal, timber and ore.
In January-September 2014, the Baltic Customs filed over 2,000 administrative offense cases and initiated 33 criminal cases.