Customs duties

An update in Turkey's Customs Union deal with the EU and the signing of new free trade deals with other countries will help Ankara overcome its economic slowdown in 2017, Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci has said. 

Speaking at parliament during annual budget debates, Zeybekci cited both external and domestic causes of the recent decline in the value of the Turkish Lira. 

Bulgarian customs are to become fully electronic by 2020 and customs officials are to become a digital administration.

This is envisaged in the strategy E-Customs 2016-2020, proposed by Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov. The document contains a road map of stages and deadlines.

A work of art by Pablo Picasso worth 25 million euros and considered a cultural treasure by Spanish authorities who had barred its exportation was seized from a boat docked at Corsica, French authorities said Aug. 4.

BELGRADE - All customs offices in Serbia have been integrated in a New Computerised Transit System (NCTS) and Serbia should join the system of joint EU transit as of October this year, the Customs Administration authorities released.

BELGRADE - The Customs Administration stated on Wednesday that the customs offices will work regularly during the New Year and Christmas holidays, and branch offices in the interior that collect customs duties on goods will have an on call status.

Regional customs administrations pledge to cooperate

BELGRADE -- Customs administrations of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro will continue "with unabated vigour" the implementation of an information exchange project.

It is aimed at protecting the security of citizens in the region.

Turkey wants to renew its customs union agreement with the European Union to boost the country’s economy, EU Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said July 9.

Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci has warned Turkey may pull out of a customs agreement with the European Union if the bloc finalizes Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks without Ankara.

Bulgaria's three mobile operators will change the mobile phone calls tariffs as of mid-April.

The new tariffs, which come into effect after a decision of Bulgaria's  Communications Regulation Commission (CRC), might lower the prices of some  phone calls. 

Turkey will bring up the customs union deal for re-negotiation with the European Union by June, Turkey's Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said.

“By June, we’re going to re-open for negotiation the Customs Union Agreement, to which no sovereign independent state should agree,” Zeybekci said at a meeting with Turkish businesspeople, quoted by Hurryiet Daily News.