The Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Government of Japan signed an agreement on mutual administrative assistance and cooperation in the customs sector. The document envisions the exchange of information for implementing the customs legislation and preventing customs fraud, for ensuring economic security. As a result, clearance will take place much faster, Igor Talmazan, director of the Customs Service of the Republic of Moldova, said after the signing of the agreement, IPN reports.
Igor Talmazan noted that the document will create conditions for facilitating international trade by simplifying and harmonizing customs procedures. Under the agreement, the customs authorities of Moldova and Japan will provide mutual administrative assistance in correctly implementing the customs legislation, in preventing, investigating and combating customs fraud, in exactly determining customs payments and in ensuring the security of the international commercial supply chain.
Japan’s Ambassador to Moldova Yoshihiro Katayama noted that the agreement comes to extend the Moldovan-Japanese economic cooperation in the customs sector as well. The document offers the Moldovan customs authorities the legal frameworks for exchanging relevant information and knowledge for correspondingly implementing the customs legislation, ensuring security and protecting the economic interests.
The ambassador noted the Government of Japan has supported the Republic of Moldova since the first years of the proclamation of its independence, offering the Moldovan partners, for the first time in 1993, a consignment of vaccine doses and medicines to the value of over US$2 million. “Since then, the Japanese development assistance programs expanded to cover different areas, such as modernization of agriculture, strengthening of the health system, sustainable production of energy, promotion of national heritage, promotion of culture and arts, support for the local initiatives, through the well-known grants program “Kusanone”. We, the Government of Japan and the people of Japan, have always been near our friends from the Republic of Moldova,” stated the Japanese diplomat.
This year it will be 30 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and the Republic of Moldova. “Such fundamental values as democracy, the rule of law, observance of human rights and principles of market economic represent the basis of our bilateral relations,” said Yoshihiro Katayama.
The signing ceremony was preceded by a bilateral meeting in which the director of the Customs Service and the Ambassador of Japan in Chisinau discussed the current stage of the customs cooperation between the Republic of Moldova and Japan, expressing their readiness to further develop the bilateral dialogue in the customs sector.
