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The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has appointed Dmitry Cheltsov as general delegate to lead its permanent representation to Eurasia in Moscow, and to help strengthen its team team to meet the challenge posed by the dismemberment of the TIR transit system Highly experienced in transport and customs issues in Russia and in the CIS region, Mr Cheltsov worked 12 years for TNT Express Worldwide (CIS) at various management levels, and ...
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The four largest Russian business associations have written to President Vladimir Putin calling for the TIR system to be reinstated across the whole country.
Leaders of the Russian Chamber of Commerce, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Business Russia, and OPORA Russia (Union of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of Russia) ...
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The IRU General Assembly agreed on 4 April that to make every effort to work with the Russian authorities to reinstate the TIR in Russia, which has been prgressively withdrwan from a number of customs offices. However it added that the IRU Presidential Executive should be given the authority to ...
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Russia's Federal Customs Service has extended its progressive ban on TIR documents to the Finnish-Russian border, a major conduit for trade between the EU and Russia, the International Road Transport Union reported on 18 March.
It said that, according to information it had received, TIR Carnets will no longer be accepted ...
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Russia's Arbitration Court has thrown out allegations against the Russian TIR Guaranteeing Association (ASMAP) as “inconsistent with reality and defamatory”. In a satement published on 21 February, and referring to a decision by the court the previous week, the International Road Transport Union said that the court had rejected all ...
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The TIR Administrative committee, meeting at the United Nations in Geneva on 6 February, reiterated that the Russian customs service, in seeking to restrict or annual the TIR system, broke the TIR Convention and international law. The Committee once again asked Moscow to abandon its restrictive measures.
The International Road Transport ...
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An IRU delegation led by secretary general, Umberto de Pretto, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Deputy Minister of Finance and President of the Iranian Customs Administration, Mr Masoud Karbasian to further secure the functioning of the TIR System in Iran and facilitate trade with neighbouring countries.
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The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has accused Russian Customs of spreading confusion over TIR. While the Customs service had officially announced a stay of execution until 1 July 2014, immediately afterwards it “once again disregarded the TIR Convention by unilaterally issuing, on 2 December 2013, a list of offices ...
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Russian Customs says it plans to work with other Russian authorities, Belarus and Kazakhstan towards a single transit system in Euraasia, reports Finnish logistics specialist, Nurminen. The Russian customs service also plans to open negotiations with the International Road Transport Union (IRU) on updating the TIR Convention.
On 29 November ...
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Finnish-Russian logistics specialist Nurminen is reminding shippers that the Russian TIR agreement is formally due to expire on Sunday 1 December. From that date goods may only be placed under the TIR transit procedure by taking a separate additional insurance. However, Russian customs has already progressively been withdrawing the TIR ...
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