Moldova proposes Russia to open second customs office for exporting Moldovan produce

Moldova proposes Russia to open the second customs office for exporting the Moldovan agricultural products. The proposal was set in a protocol signed in Moscow, at the end of the 10th sitting of the joint Moldo-Russian Commission for economic cooperation, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the Ministry of Economy and Trade, now all agricultural products from Moldova are being imported by Russia in the preferential customs regime of the one-stop shop, through a single customs office. Another point of the protocol stipulates Russia’s examination of Moldova’s proposal to permit the import of Moldovan pork on the Russian market. As to the transport, the Russian part will study the opportunity to increase the number of licenses for the freight transport for 2009. In 2008 the transporters benefited from 760 licenses, 590 of them having certain restrictions. The parts have also studied the situation of Moldova-Gaz's debts to Gazprom. They proposed to restructure the debts for the natural gas through transferring the debt belonging to the left bank of the Nistru from the balance sheets of Moldova-Gaz to those of the Transnistrian administration. Another stipulation of the protocol is Russia’s considering the Moldovan proposal to increase the tariff for transporting the Russian gases to the Balkanic countries, made through the territory of Moldova. The 10th sitting of the joint Commission for economic cooperation was unfolding in November 6 – 8, in Moscow.