Prevention of the transport of prohibited goods across the State Border of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Prevention of the transport of prohibited goods across the State Border of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Employees of automobile checkpoints, within the framework of the activities of the Department of State Revenues in the North Kazakhstan region, control the movement of goods prohibited by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan for import and export.

         During April - June 2023, the following bans on the export of goods were put into effect, for example:

  • Order of the Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated June 07, 2023 No. 419 “On some issues of regulating the export of certain types of timber”, entered into force on June 10, 2023.  According to this order, a ban is introduced on the export from the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan for a period of six months of certain types of timber (commodity nomenclature code of the Foreign Economic Activity of the Eurasian Economic Union 4401, 4403, 4404, 4406 and 4407), regardless of the country of origin, with the exception of the CCFEA  EAEU code 4406910000  "Coniferous wood sleepers for railway or tram tracks, impregnated".
  • Order of the Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated May 24, 2023 No. 378 “On some issues of regulation of the export of ammophos and ammonium nitrate”.

         According to which, a ban was introduced on the export from the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan for a period of six months by road for ammophos (code of the commodity nomenclature of the Foreign Economic Activity of the Eurasian Economic Union 3105590000) and ammonium nitrate (commodity nomenclature code of the Foreign Economic Activity of the Eurasian Economic Union 3102309000).

  • Order of the Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated April 19, 2023 No. 265 “On Certain Issues of Transportation of Scrap and Waste of Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals”, according to which a ban is introduced for a period of six months on the export from the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan by all types of transport of goods according to the list with  the indicated codes of the commodity nomenclature of foreign economic activity of the Eurasian Economic Union.
  • Order of the Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan on May 03, 2023 No. 312 “On some issues of regulating the export of coal and lignite”, according to which a ban on the export of hard coal from the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan for a period of six months by road;  briquettes, pellets and similar types of solid fuels obtained from coal: hard coal, pulverized or non-pulverized, but not agglomerated (code of the commodity nomenclature of foreign economic activity of the Eurasian Economic Union (hereinafter - CCFEA  code of the EAEU) 2701);  lignite, or brown coal, agglomerated or non-agglomerated, except for jet (EAEU HS code 2702).
  • Order of the Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated April 10, 2023 No. 132 “On the introduction of a ban on the import of wheat into the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan by road”, namely a six-month ban on the import of wheat (commodity nomenclature code for foreign economic activity of the Eurasian Economic Union: 100119  ; 100199) to the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan by road from third countries and from the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union.
  • Order of the Acting Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated March 30, 2023 No. 106 “On the introduction of a ban on the export of certain types of unprocessed fish from the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, which introduced a ban on the export of certain types of frozen, freshly frozen or chilled fish (  catfish and pike perch) (codes of the unified commodity nomenclature of foreign economic activity of the Eurasian Economic Union from 0302891070, 0302720000, 0303240000, from 0303891070 according to the annex to the order, for a period of 6 months.
  • Joint Order of the Minister of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated June 20, 2022 No. 215 “On Certain Issues of Export of Petroleum Products from the Territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan” a six-month ban on the export of gasoline, diesel fuel and certain types of petroleum products from the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan by road (CCFEA  EAEU  2709 00, 2710, 2902, 3403, 3811, 3826 00), except for lubricating oils (CCFEA  EAEU 2710 19 820 0, 2710 19 840 0, 2710 19 860 0, 2710 19 880 0, 2710 19 920 0, 2710 19  940 0, 2710 19 980 0, 3403 19 900 0, 3403 91 000 0), except for export in gas tanks provided by the manufacturer of motor vehicles, as well as in separate containers with a volume of not more than 20 liters.

         For the period of the 1st half of 2023, employees of automobile points identified 5 attempts to export 830 liters of oil products, 1 attempt to export 200 kg of scrap and 5 facts of export of onions with a total weight of 97 tons.

         The ban on the export of onions from the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan Enter was introduced for a period of three months by Order of the Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated January 28, 2023 No. 39. At the moment, its effect has expired.

         These facts testify to the attempts CCFEA codes of taxpayers to violate the imposed bans on the transport of goods across the State Border of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which is suppressed by employees of the Department of State Revenues in the North Kazakhstan region.