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A major problem is brewing at customs.
I am receiving messages from importers and customs officers about long lines at domestic customs posts across the country and a multiple slowdown in cargo clearance.
At some customs posts we now have kilometer-long queues, which is unacceptable in wartime realities and when the delivery of goods literally depends on speed. And this is not at the border, where you can blame slow work by counterparts — this is inside the country.
The main reason given for the slowdown is the continued practice of thorough inspections of trucks and unloading of goods due to mass triggering of ASAUR, which is further complicated by frequent air-raid alerts, during which inspections are not conducted. In other words, a truck is not processed and released; instead it is held, unloaded, counted, and weighed. And this goes on for days.
At the same time, the customs officers on site complain that their appeals to the Central Authority about resolving this issue are met with silence. Kyiv does not dare to cancel such an intensity of inspections, so customs continue the pointless procedures that are driving us into some kind of collapse.
And here’s the question of the effectiveness of these inspections. Recently Max Nefyodov published statistics showing that 96% of such checks after ASAUR is triggered do not find violations.
So this is a banal delay tactic, a classic pressure on the importer with proposals for a “commercial solution” to the ASAUR trigger. An artificial and ineffective obstacle. In the majority of cases. Yet it is not being canceled.
The situation already needs publicity and an immediate solution.
Orest Mandziy’s renewed team must finally take responsibility and find a way out. The accumulation of hundreds of trucks at customs could lead to a tragedy.
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