Voluntary Report - Public distribution

**Date:** 11/28/2007

**GAIN Report Number:** RS7085

RS7085

**Russian Federation**

**Trade Policy Monitoring**

**Russian Customs Limits Ports of Entry for Meat**

**2007**

**Approved by:**

![](media/image1.wmf)Allan Mustard

American Embassy

**Prepared by:**

Allan Mustard

**Report Highlights:**

The Russian Customs Service has published a new list of ports of entry
authorized to handle imports of meat and meat products. Conspicuously
missing are the ports of Vladivostok, Nakhodka and Magadan, which will
complicate shipment of meat to destinations in the Russian Far East. The
list goes into effect 90 days from its date of publication, November 17,
2007.

Includes PSD Changes: No

Includes Trade Matrix: No

Trade Report

Moscow \[RS1\]

\[RS\]

**Summary**

The Russian Customs Service has published a new list of ports of entry
authorized to handle imports of meat and meat products. Conspicuously
missing are the ports of Vladivostok, Nakhodka and Magadan, which will
complicate shipment of meat to destinations in the Russian Far East. The
list goes into effect 90 days from its date of publication, November 17,
2007.

The original text of the implementing decree can be seen on the website
of the official Russian government newspaper, Rossiyskaya gazeta, at
<http://rg.ru/2007/11/17/fts-deklarirovanie-dok.html>. An informal
translation of the decree and its attached list of ports of entry
follows.

**Text of the Decree**

BEGIN TEXT:

Order of the Federal Customs Service of 17 October 2007 No. 1283,
Moscow, "On points of declaration of certain types of commodities"

Published 17 November 2007.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the RF 7 November 2007.

Registration No. 10433

With the intent of providing effective control of enforcement of customs
legislation of the Russian Federation and bringing order to the points
of declaration of certain types of commodities, on the basis of
subparagraph 3 of paragraph 2 of Article 125 and paragraph 2 of Article
101 of the Customs Code of the Russian Federation (Collected Legislation
of the Russian Federation, 2003, No. 22, p. 2066, No. 52 (part 1), p.
5038; 2004, No. 27, p. 2711, No. 34, Art. 3533, No. 46 (part 1), p.
4494; 2005, No. 30 (part 1), p. 3101; 2006, No. 1, p. 15, No. 3, p. 280,
No. 8, p. 54, No. 52 (part 2), p. 5504; 2007, No. 1 (part 1), p. 29, No.
24, p. 2831, No. 27, p. 3213, No. 31, p. 4011) I order:

1\. To define points for declaration of commodities classified in
commodity group 02 in accordance with the tariff nomenclature for
foreign economic activity of Russia, imported into the customs territory
of the Russian Federation and situated under the customs regime of
release for domestic consumption (hereinafter -- commodities), customs
authorities and their structural subdivisions indicated in the
attachment to this order.

2\. To permit temporary storage of commodities exclusively in warehouses
of temporary storage equipped with refrigeration (freezing) equipment in
observance of mandatory requirements established in accordance with
Russian Federation legislation on technical regulation.

3\. Not to apply with respect to commodities the provisions of Point 2
of Russian State Customs Committee Order of 30 March 2004 No. 395 "On
confirmation of an Instruction for improving customs operations during
declaration of commodities in electronic form" (registered by the
Ministry of Justice of Russia 22 April 2004, registration No. 5767) in
the redaction of Russian Federal Customs Service orders of 5 September
2006 No. 840 "On introduction of amendments to State Customs Service
order of 30 March 2004 No. 395) (registered by the Ministry of Justice
of Russia 15 September 2006, reg. No. 8314), of 29 November 2006 No.
1243 "On introduction of amendments to Russian State Customs Committee
order of 30 March 2004 No. 395" (registered by the Ministry of Justice
of Russia 10 January 2007, reg. No. 8725), of 24 August 2006 No. 800 "On
points of declaration of certain types of commodities" (registered by
the Ministry of Justice of Russia 14 September 2006, reg. No. 8252).

4\. Not to apply provisions of this order with respect to:

-   commodities imported for diplomatic, consular and other official
    representations of foreign states in the Russian Federation;

-   commodities intended for disaster prevention and relief and other
    emergencies, including commodities intended for free-of-charge
    distribution to individuals suffering as a result of emergencies,
    and commodities necessary for conduct of emergency and rescue
    operations and other urgent work and sustenance of emergency and
    rescue units;

-   commodities imported as humanitarian assistance (aid);

-   commodities crossing customs borders between military units of the
    Russian Federation located on the customs territory of the Russian
    Federation and outside the borders of this territory;

-   commodities imported by individuals and intended for personal,
    family, household and other needs not connected to entrepreneurial
    activity.

5\. To repeal Russian State Customs committee orders of 19 September
2003 No. 1052 "On points of declaration of certain types of commodities"
(registered by the Ministry of Justice 06 October 2003, reg. No. 5153),
of 23 December 2003 No. 1503 "O introduction of additionals to Russian
State Customs committee order of 19 September 2003 No. 1052" (registered
by the Ministry of Justice of Russia 15 January 2004, reg. No. 5411) and
Russian Federal Customs Service order of 19 September 2003 No. 1052 "On
points of declaration of certain types of commodities" (registered by
the Ministry of Justice of Russia 28 December 2006, No. 8686).

6\. Main Administration for Information Technology (A.Ye. Shashayev),
State Scientific-Research Computing Center of the Federal Customs
Service of Russia (O.P. Puchkov) to provide from the moment this order
goes into effect necessary programming support.

7\. To assign responsibility for implementation of this order to Russian
Federal Customs Service Deputy Head L.I. Shornikov.

This order goes into effect on expiry of 90 from its date of official
publication.

Head

Actual State Counsellor of the Russian Federation Customs Service

A. Belyaninov

END TEXT.

**The Attachment**

Attached to this order is a document entitled "List of Customs
Authorities and Their Structural Subdivisions for Declaration of
Commodities Classified in Commodity Position 02 in Accordance with the
Tariff Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity of Russia." This list
includes the following border crossing points:

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  **1. Customs Points Directly Subordinate to the Russian Federal Customs
  Service:**

  1.1 Domodedovo Airport

  1.2 Sheremetyevo Airport (cargo)

  1.3 Sheremetyevo Airport (cargo) for diplomatic clearance

  **2. Central District Customs Administration**

  2.1 Karachay post, Bryansk Customs

  2.2 Provoberezhnyy post, Voronezh Customs

  2.3 Balashikha post, Shchelkovsk Customs

  2.4 Gagarin post, Smolensk Customs

  2.5 Zadneprovskiy post (special), Smolensk Customs

  2.6 Tula post, Tula Customs

  2.7 Altuf'yevo post, Moscow East Customs

  2.8 Bogorodskiy post, Moscow East Customs

  2.9 Vidnoye post, Moscow West Customs

  2.10 West post, Moscow West Customs

  2.11 Ryabinovo post, Moscow West Customs

  2.12 Izhora post, Moscow North Customs

  2.13 Troitse-Lykovo post, Moscow North Customs

  2.14 Pechatnikov post, Moscow South Customs

  2.15 Kashira post, Moscow South Customs

  2.16 Ryazan post, Moscow South Customs

  2.17 OTO and TK No. 2 Yesipovo post, Zelenograd Customs

  2.18 Mozhaysk post, Zelenograd Customs

  2.19 Zhukovskoye post, Noginsk Customs

  2.20 OTO and TK Elektrostal post, Noginsk Customs

  2.21 Mikhnevo post, Podolsk Customs

  2.22 Naro-Fominsk post, Podolsk Customs

  2.23 Novo-Syrovsk post, Podolsk Customs

  2.24 Podolsk post, Podolsk Customs
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  **3. Northwest District Customs Administration**

  3.1 Kaliningrad post, Kaliningrad Customs

  3.2 Moscow post, Kaliningrad Customs

  3.3 OTO and TK No. 4 Pskov post, Pskov Customs

  3.4 Northern post, St. Petersburg Customs

  3.5 Southern post, St. Petersburg Customs

  3.6 Shusharsk post, St. Petersburg Customs

  3.7 MAPP Bagrationovsk post, Bagrationovsk Customs

  3.8 Zaprudnyy post, Velikiy Luk Customs

  3.9 Pulkovo post, Pulkovo Customs

  **4. Southern District Customs Administration**

  4.1 Krasnodar post, Krasnodar Customs

  **5. Volga District Customs Administration**

  5.1 Sormov post, Nizhniy Novgorod Customs

  5.2 Moscow post, Nizhniy Novgorod Customs

  **6. Siberian District Customs Administration**

  6.1 Ulan-Ude post, Buryat Customs

  6.2 Kyzyl post, Tuva Customs

  **7. Far East District Customs Administration**

  7.1 Khabarovsk post, Khabarovsk Customs

  7.2 Port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka Customs

  7.3 Anadyr post, Chukotka Customs

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**Comments**

Exclusion of important Russian Far East ports like Vladivostok and
Magadan from the list of ports approved for handling meat imports has
taken by surprise even local Russian Customs officials in those areas,
as well as local governors. Officials in the Russian Far East are
reportedly appealing this order to their superiors in Moscow. It is
doubly surprising given recent high-level attention to rising food
prices in Russia as the nation prepares for back-to-back parliamentary
and presidential elections.

Limiting the Russian Far East's options for importing meat, adequate
supplies of which cannot be produced locally, will have two impacts.
First, it will cause yet another hike in meat prices in the Russian Far
East's markets served by seaports no longer on the Russian Customs list
of approved points of entry. Khabarovsk, the only authorized port of
entry within reach of Vladivostok, is a small river port that cannot
handle ocean-going vessels; Anadyr is landlocked, served by air, and
handles cargoes intended only for the population of Chukotka; the
seasonal seaport of Magadan serves exclusively the area around that
city.

Second, the increased cost of importing meat due to the need for
transshipment from European Russia will stimulate illegal importation of
contraband meat, especially from China, fueling both corruption and
danger of infectious disease.

Imports of red meat and poultry meat through Russian Far East ports from
2002 through 2006 are shown in the following table. The bulk of this
trade moved through the port at Vladivostok. Thus, based on 2006 import
figures, shutdown of this port of entry for meat will have a serious
impact on over 200 million dollars worth of trade.

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  **Table 1.                                                       
  Russian Far                                                      
  East: Imports                                                    
  of Red Meat                                                      
  and Poultry                                                      
  Meat,                                                            
  2002-2006**                                                      

                Red Meat                          Poultry Meat     

  year          metric tons      \$1,000          metric tons      \$1,000

  2002          5,729            5,900            15,000           9,822

  2003          3,239            3,823            17,898           8,476

  2004          3,704            4,907            11,377           7,936

  2005          7,728            11,307           17,134           13,902

  2006          97,280           194,063          55,560           40,488
  ------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------

**Source: Russian Federal Customs Service**

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