A seminar and a round table with participants in foreign economic activity, carriers and customs representatives were held at the Tazhen border customs post of the Department of State Revenues for Mangystau Region. The subject was preliminary information on goods intended to be moved across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union.
The Tazhen post is located on the Kazakhstan–Uzbekistan border and is one of the main road crossing points. How quickly a consignment clears the border, and how effectively it is controlled, depends on whether customs receives accurate data before the vehicle arrives.
Preliminary information is data on goods and means of transport that an interested person sends electronically to the customs authority before the cargo arrives on the customs territory of the EAEU. It is submitted by foreign-trade operators, carriers and customs representatives.
Under the law of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the information serves two linked purposes. The first is risk assessment and a preliminary decision, before arrival, on which consignments to control, in what form and with what measures. The second is faster customs operations and more targeted control after arrival. Where the data match the goods actually brought in, the electronic document can be used for the arrival notification, placement in temporary storage and as a transit declaration. The carrier does not re-enter the same data at the border.
The Keden information system has a dedicated preliminary-information module for this. Using commodity codes, the system determines in advance whether veterinary, phytosanitary or quarantine control is required and passes the data to the other agencies on a single-window basis.
For road transport, preliminary information is generally submitted no later than two hours before the customs border is crossed, and only in electronic form.
At the seminar, participants were briefed on how the module works, what data are required and the errors that most often prevent the filing from being accepted or used as a transit declaration. At the round table, carriers and customs representatives reviewed practical cases at Tazhen: mismatches between preliminary information and transport documents, interaction with the electronic queue, and issues that arise in transit.
