The Customs Service and Moldova’s Post Office have launched the digitalized and automated export through international parcel post. The digitization will benefit the Government of the Republic of Moldova, which will earn more from electronic trade, and also the buyers who will use swift and accessible postal services. The digitalization and automation of exports through international parcel post were ensured with financial support from the EBRD and USAID, IPN reports.
The mechanism provides a number of benefits to exporting business entities by simplification, de-bureaucratization and eradication of corruption through the exclusion of the human factor. This way, the business entities will submit a customs declaration without using the services of customs brokers. The detailed customs declaration on the export of goods worth less than €1,000 is excluded, while the interaction with all the players involved in the process – Business Entity, Moldova’s Post Office and Customs Service – will take place online.
By the digitalization and automaton of exports through international parcel post, the tax for customs procedures and the necessity of presenting the customs declaration for VAT refund are excluded.
In the process of implementing the given mechanism, the Customs Service was supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), while Moldova’s Post Office was assisted by the USAID Moldova Institutional and Structural Reforms Activity Program.
