The Customs Service in the first half of this year brought 9.6 billion lei into the state budget, an increase of 270 million lei compared with the corresponding period last year. The data were presented in a meeting held to sum up the results achieved by the Service’s Revenues and Customs Control Department, IPN reports.

According to the presented data, exports in six months rose by 16% to 28 billion lei. The value of goods exported based on declarations of origin presented by the holders of the approved exporter status increased almost three times to 2.7 billion lei.

In the meeting, Customs Service director general Vitalie Vrabie requested to accelerate the development of electronic trade so that the national producers could easier access foreign markets and to simplify the transactions operated by small and medium-sized entrepreneurs who export moderate quantities of products by introducing a declaration method that would exclude the necessity of contracting a customs broker.

Vitalie Vrabie underlined the necessity of strengthening the institutional capacities of the Customs Laboratory by outfitting this with equipment and by diversifying the testing methods. Now the Laboratory can examine oil, food, textile and alcoholic products.