OREANDA-NEWS. On August 14, 2009 This decision was taken by the government at its sitting. The Customs Service’s Director General Viorel Melnic said the system would be introduced to facilitate commodity turnover and optimize introduction of clauses of the legislation regarding export and import.

It will represent a database containing all tariff and non-tariff measures applied to goods imported to Moldova or exported from the country. It will contain subsections of Moldova’s Commodity Nomenclature, rates of customs duties and other customs payments, information about tariff privileges, additional codes and explanations about the use of information contained in the TARIM and others.

The system will enable users to familiarize with all provisions regarding export and import of these or those goods, rates of customs duties and other customs payments applied to them, information on tariff privileges, preferences, restrictions, documents necessary for its customs registration. TARIM will be applied all over the customs territory of Moldova by customs officials and interested economic subjects allowing excluding the human factor when taking decisions on the necessity of provision of these or those certificates or permissions. It will accelerate customs operations, reduce customs registration costs, the risk of mistakes in customs operations and the number of complaints from economic subjects.

Thanks to the TARIM, economic subjects will know what documents have to be presented at the customs as well as rates of customs fees for each kind of goods with the respective code. The Customs Service of Moldova has been appointed the authorized structure to develop and administer the system. The TARIM database is planned to be placed on the website of the Customs Service of Moldova starting from January 1, 2010. Its usage by customs officials and economic subjects is supposed to reduce the corruption level at the customs considerably.