Moldovan PM chairs meeting on facilitating export procedure

Chisinau, 17 January /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Ion Chicu today chaired a meeting to consider possibilities of facilitating the export activities for the native producers and stimulating the development of the online trade. Attending the meeting were decision-makers from the Economics and Infrastructure Ministry (MEI), Moldova’s Post, Customs Service, National Bank, the Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises Sector Development (ODIMM), as well as native producers of textiles Hermina and Bombonici, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

The participants in the meeting informed the PM about the distance covered by the native producers in the process of carrying out the export of goods to the final recipient, described the current drawbacks in the couriers’ activity, difficulties faced in carrying out customs procedures and the issue of online payments.   

The decision-maker from the Customs Service said that a simplified procedure for export operations had been launched in 2019. It gives producers possibility to submit an application to the nearby customs checkpoint, to get the right of supplying goods worth 1,000 euros per one invoice. The decision-maker noted that work was presently carried out to improve the customs information system (ASYCUDA World), meant to essentially simplify the goods export.    

Prime Minister Chicu described the current procedures of sending parcels as difficult, which can compromise the intention to make business in Moldova. In the context, Ion Chicu asked decision-makers to intensely communicate with the native producers and work out together a maximally comfortable scenario for the export-oriented business.