Despite the decline in imports, customs fees increased

Baku/16.04.14/Turan : Within three months of this year, the volume of foreign trade turnover amounted to $ 7,141.6 million, which is 16.5 % less than in the comparable period of 2013. However, it does not put the customs increase customs revenues to the state budget by 14.1 %.

In the first quarter of this year, provided the customs transfer to the state budget of 330.3 million manat. This 40.8 million manat more than in the same period last year. The volume of imports of goods ( $ 1,764.2 million) decreased by 20.2%.

The economist Gubad Ibadoglu believes that this trend can be explained by changes in the structure of imports of goods as goods subject to import duty at different rates - from 0 to 15 % rate. However, there are subjective reason : customs officers have to collect this year at 127 million manat more than in 2013 ( 1 383 mln) .

Foreign economic activity participants argue that the State Customs Committee (SCC) periodically changes the customs value of imported goods , which leads to an increase in both official fees and taxes.

According to the SCC, the volume of exports from the country ($ 377.4 million 5 ) decreased by 15.2%. crude oil exports ( $ 4,563 million ) decreased by 13.6% , petroleum products ( $ 279.4 million ) - 12.6% , natural gas ( $ 145.9 million ) - 49 %.

Despite this, the share of hydrocarbon resources and their products in the portfolio of the country's exports are still predominant, and was three months of this year, 92.7 %.

The countries of the European Union this year accounted for about $ 721.8 million 2 (50.6 %) of exports and $ 553 million (31.3%) of imports.

The foreign trade surplus amounted to $ 3613 million. - 08D-