Customs Clearance and Internal Customs Transit

Cargo Service Centre provides customs clearance services (including the processing of the ICT) for all potential clients at the Baltic, Pulkovo and Saint Petersburg customs points.  Our company’s specialists with consult with you on all questions regarding the processing of cargo documentation, as well as instructing you on how to correctly complete the customs declaration and calculate the customs duties and the value of the cargo.  In addition, during the processing of the cargo documentation, the Cargo Service Centre team will give you all the necessary information about the procedure for submitting the documents to the customs authorities, about processing the ICT, and also about the procedure for the import and export of goods to Kazakhstan and Belarus (the other countries in the Customs Union).

Cargo Service Centre has been providing customs clearance services since 1993. We will do everything we can to make the preparation of the documentation for your cargo as easy as it can possibly be.

The following customs clearance services are provided by our company:

• Processing the Cargo Customs Declaration (CCD) with verification by broker or client
• Processing of the ATA Carnet for temporary import/export
• Fully integrated and complete cargo customs clearance service, using our own procedures
• Processing of the ICT (internal customs transit)
• Preparation of documents for customs clearance
• Consultation on the issues involved with cargo customs clearance, including pets and personal property
• Determination of product codes as corresponding to the Russian Commodities Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity
• Calculation of customs value and size of customs duties
• The optimisation of customs duties in accordance with Russian Federation legislation
• Customs clearance of imported goods

The processing of the ICT (internal customs transit) is necessary in order to transport foreign goods from the place where they arrived in the Russian Federation to the customs point (the place where they have actually been declared).  Processing of the ICT does not demand the payment of import customs duties, taxes, or the presentation of any licences. The processing of the ICT is done by the customs authorities of the region in which the transportation of the cargo begins.