Customs head clarifies
Citizens and customs officials often get into disputes when receiving packages from abroad.
Head of the Customs Control Department of the State Income Committee Gevorg Saghoyan links that to citizens' lack of awareness.
"In many cases, citizens complain when they have to pay for a gift sent from abroad", Gevorg Saghoyan told "A1+".
He reminded that according to the RA Customs Code, there are privileges set for physical persons who can receive their packages for free twice a year, if the package doesn't weigh over 20 kg and it doesn't cost more than 150,000 drams.
"If the weight of the package is a little over a kilogram, such disputes end in favor of the citizen," says the Head of the Customs Control Department.
If a package weighs over 20 kg and costs over 150,000 drams, according to Saghoyan, the package is transferred through the set procedures for customs clearance.
Let us remind that before, citizens didn't have to pay for customs clearance, if the package cost 50,000 drams.
For customs clearance, it doesn't matter how many items of a given product there are in the package. The important thing is that the weight of that package doesn't exceed 20 kg and that it doesn't cost more than 150,000 drams.
Touching upon the issue of importing drugs to Armenia in packages, Saghoyan mentioned that that was a complicated process because in addition to permission, the drug must also be registered in Armenia.
As for substances that aren't considered drugs, the customs department head says they can be easily imported.
