Record indicators of the “mandarin season”: about 37 thousand tons of citrus were exported from Abkhazia to Russia

Since mid-December last year customs officers have processed up to 1000 tons of tangerines per day.

Sukhum. January 18. Apsnypress. About 37 thousand tons of citrus fruits were imported into Russia from the Republic of Abkhazia, the official website of the Southern Customs Administration reported.
 As noted in the message, the harvest of Christmas fruits in Abkhazia has exceeded the performance of the last few years. Since mid-December last year customs officers have processed up to 1000 tons of tangerines per day. Every day, up to 200 trucks with agricultural products from Abkhazia passed through the Abkhaz-Russian border.
 
 "Summing up the culminating citrus season, one can say that its indicators are many times higher than the figures of previous years," - acting Head of the customs post MAPP Adler Vladimir Bondarenko noted. - So, since the beginning of October 2018, officials of the customs office MAPP Adler of the Sochi customs have issued 36 853 tons of citrus fruits. For comparison, in 2017, according to the results of the “tangerine season” (for October-February), about 6 thousand tons of tangerines were issued, in 2016, about 12 thousand tons ”.
 
 Sochi customs reminds that since January 1, 2019, cost and weight norms have changed, within which individuals can import into the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union without paying customs duties and taxes for personal use (except for ethyl alcohol, alcoholic beverages, beer, indivisible goods for personal use) in accompanied and unaccompanied baggage by means of transport other than air transport, or on foot. From January 1, 2019, the cost of such goods should not exceed the amount equivalent to 500 euros, the weight should not exceed 25 kg. At the same time, for goods transported by air, the norms remained unchanged - up to 10,000 euros and up to 50 kg.
 
 The need to pay customs duties at a flat rate of 30% of the value of the goods, but not less than 4 euros per kilogram of weight in terms of exceeding the value/weight norm will arise in case of exceeding the established values.