Carrieris obliged to notify the customs authority of the arrival of goods into the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union by submitting documents and information provided for in Article 89The EAEU TC, depending on the type of transport by which the goods are transported (transported), or by submitting a document containing information about the registration number of preliminary information submitted in the form of an electronic document, within the time limits established by Article 88 of the Labor CodeThe EAEU.

The legislation of the Eurasian Economic Union on customs affairs establishes the obligation to provide the customs authority with preliminary information on goods imported into the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union by road, aviation and rail.

Preliminary information can be submitted independently via “Personal account of a foreign trade participant” or usewith the help of our company.

Preliminary informationit is submitted to the customs authority of the member state of the Eurasian Economic Union, on the territory of which the place of importation of goods is located, no later than 2 hours before the arrival of goods and vehicles at the checkpoint

After performing all operations with goods established by the customs legislation of the Eurasian Economic Union at the place of arrival, such goods can be placed under the chosen customs procedure.

In the case of placing goods under the customs procedure of customs transit, the transit declaration and the documents to it are submitted by the declarant of the procedure to the customs authority in electronic form. It is also allowed to submit a transit declaration in paper form in cases determined by the law of the Eurasian Economic Union and the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Since March 2017, it has been possible to apply a preliminary declaration of the transit procedure before the arrival of goods at checkpoints across the state border of the Russian Federation.

When releasing goods in accordance with the customs procedure of customs transit, the customs authority of departure establishes the period of customs transit, the place of delivery of goods, and in some cases the route of transportation.

After arriving at the designated place of delivery (customs control zone) to complete the customs procedure of customs transit, the carrier submits tocustoms authority of destinationtransit declaration and its documents:

- in respect of goods transported by road - within 3 hours from the moment of their arrival at the place of delivery of goods, and in the case of arrival of goods outside the working hours of the customs authority - within 3 hours from the time of the beginning of the work of this customs authority;

- in respect of goods transported using water, air or rail transport - during the time established by the technological process (schedule) of the port, airport or railway station during international transportation, or other period established by the legislation of the Russian Federation on customs regulation.

After the registration of the mentioned documents by the customs authority:

1. the customs body of destination completes the transit procedure as soon as possible, but no later than 4 hours of the customs body's working time from the moment of registration of the submission of the transit declaration and its documents.
2. declarant(the carrier of goods) commitscustoms operations related to the placement of goods in temporary storage or theircustoms declaration:

•  in respect of goods transported by road - no later than 8 hours of the customs body's working time after registration of the submission of documents by the customs body of destination;
• in respect of goods transported using water, aircraft or rail transport - during the time established by the technological process (schedule) of the port, airport or railway station during international transportation, or other period established by the legislation of the Russian Federation on customs regulation.

If the declarant fails to perform the above-mentioned operations, the carrier is obliged to perform customs operations for placing the delivered goods in temporary storage no later than 1 business day following the day of registration by the customs authority of the destination of the submission of documents.

Goods in respect of which the above operations are not performed within the prescribed time are detained by customs authorities.

The specifics of the application of the customs procedure of customs transit are regulated by the provisions of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation No. 311-FZ of 29.07.2017 “On Customs regulation in the Russian Federation”, which are in force in the part that does not contradict the Customs Code of the Eurasian Economic Union.

Upon arrival of goods, the carrier or another person specified in Article 83 of the EAEU Customs Code performs customs operations related to the placement of goods for temporary storage within the time limits established by Article 88 of the EAEU Customs Code.

Goods are not placed in temporary storage:

• specified in paragraph 6 of Article 88 of the EAEU Customs Code;
• placed under one of the customs procedures provided for in subparagraphs 2-5 of paragraph 5 of Article 88 of the EAEU Customs Code;
• in respect of which a preliminary customs declaration has been carried out.
• Goods are not placed in temporary storage:
• in respect of which the preliminary customs declaration has been carried out;
• the goods of the EAEU that have arrived at the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union (hereinafter referred to as the EAEU) and specified in paragraph 4 of Article 302 of the EAEU Customs Codeforeign goods placed under the customs procedure of customs transit for transportation (transportation) through the territory of a state that is not a member of the EAEU;
• international mailings;
• exported from the customs territory of the EAEU, in respect of which the customs procedure of customs transit has been completed at the place of departure;
• delivered to the customs control zone established in structures, premises (parts of premises) and (or) on open areas (parts of open areas) of an authorized economic operator with certificates of the second or third type, upon completion of the customs procedure of customs transit. If, within three hours after the completion of the customs procedure of customs transit, the carrier (or otherinterested person) has not performed customs operations for the customs declaration of goods, then the goods must be placed in temporary storage.

The period of temporary storage of goods is 4 months. The extension of this period is not provided for by the EAEU TC.