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Abbreviations used by the government in the field of foreign trade and customs clearance
The number of entries in this glossary is 210.
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Glossaries

Term Definition
Crash
An accident of a technical, technological or other nature, harmful in its consequences, that occurred with vehicles and (or) other goods under customs control, which entailed not provided for by international regulations
Automated risk profile

Risk profiles, brought to the customs authorities in electronic form,risk areawhich are partially defined in the software, and applied by the decision of an official after he checks individual risk indicators.

Synonyms- Risk profiles detected in automated mode
Automatic risk profile
Risk profiles that are brought to the customs authorities in electronic form, the risks for which are identified without the participation of an official by software.
Synonyms- Risk profiles detected automatically
Ad Valorem

Comes from Lat. ad valorem which means - from the cost. Are determined as a percentage of the customs value of the goods. For example, 10% of the customs value.

They are more profitable for taxing more expensive goods and less profitable for homogeneous goods. 

Customs valueit is declared by the declarant, and the information formally submitted by him must be based on reliable, quantifiable information. In reality, there may be a minus, there may be some underestimation of the customs value under the contract and, as a result, a decrease in the amount of taxes received.

Synonyms- Ad Valorem duties,Ad Valorem rate
Administrative offenses
Administrative offenses for which, in accordance with the legislation of the member Statescustoms authoritiesconduct an administrative process (carry out production).
Updating the risk profile
Changing the risk area of the current risk profiles, the list of measures to minimize risks, as well as extending the duration of the risk profiles.
EXCISE DUTY
Additional Fees.
Risk analysis
The use of information available to customs authorities to determine the area and indicators of risk.
AS CDT
Automated Control System For The Delivery Of Goods.
ASMAP
Association of International Road Carriers.
BNA FOSP
Bulletin Of Normative Acts Of Federal Executive Authorities.
GROSS
The total mass of the goods, including all types of its packaging, necessary to ensure the immutability of their condition before entering circulation, but excluding containers and other transport equipment
Import of goods into the customs territory of the Union
The commission of actions related to crossing the customs border of the Union and as a result of which goods arrived at the customs territory of the Union in any way, including shipment in international mail, the use of pipeline transport
VGTD
Temporary CargoCustoms Declaration.
Water vessels
Sea vessels, vessels of mixed (river - sea) navigation, as well as vessels subject to state registration in accordance with the legislation of the member States of inland waterway transport (navigation).
Military-technical cooperation

Activities in the field of international relations related to the export and import, including the supply or purchase, of military products, as well as the development and production of military products

Temporary import (export)

Customs regime in which the use of goods is allowed with full or partial exemption from customs duties and taxes and without the application of economic policy measures. Are subject to return in an unchanged condition.Temporary import (export)goods are allowed only when providing an obligation to re-export (import) and ensuring the payment of customs duties. The terms of temporary importation are established by the customs authority of the Russian Federation and cannot be more than 2 years.

VTT
Internal CustomsTransit.
Export of goods from the customs territory of the Union
Performing actions aimed atexport of goods from the customs territory of the Unionby any means, including forwarding by international mail, using pipeline transport and power transmission lines, including crossing customs
Release of goods
The action of the customs authority, after which the interested persons have the right to use the goods in accordance with the declared customs procedure or in the manner and under the conditions that are established in respect of certain categories of goods, is not subject to
Foreign economic activity
Foreign Economic Activity.
VEK OF RUSSIA
Federal Service Of The Russian Federation For Currency And Export Control.
Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding system

Standardized product coding and description system. Goods are classified both by purpose (clothing, weapons, etc.) and by economic sectors (textile products, animals and livestock products, etc.).

The selected categories are assigned codes of 6 digits, while some countries detail the nomenclature to codes consisting of 8 or 10 digits. The system was developed by the Customs Cooperation Council in 1988 and signed in the city of Brussels (Belgium).

In Russia, the Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity developed on its basis is used (TNVED).

Synonyms- HS code, Harmonized System
GGO
General Warranty Obligations.
Random Number Generator
An algorithm that determines a sequence of random numbers, the elements of which are almost independent of each other and obey a given distribution, a mathematical software method for implementing the random sampling method in the implementation of customs control of goods and vehicles of international transportation.
GCS
State Statistics Committee (Goskomstat).
GNIVC
The Main Scientific And Information Computing Center.
go
Warranty Obligations.
SCC
State Customs Committee.
SPONGE

The Main Directorate for Combating Smuggling

Code of the structural subdivision of the Federal Customs Service of Russia 0700

Areas of activity of the Department:

  • protection of economic sovereignty and economic security of the Russian Federation;
  • obtaining information about events or actions that pose a threat to the economic security of the Russian Federation;
  • organization and implementation of operational investigative activities in order to combat smuggling and other crimes within the competence of customs authorities, as well as identification and identification of persons preparing, committing or committing them;
  • identification and suppression of administrative offenses attributed to the competence of customs authorities;
  • carrying out the search for persons hiding from the bodies of inquiry, investigation and court, evading criminal punishment;
  • implementation of preventive measures aimed at preventing violations of the customs legislation of the Customs Union, the legislation of the Russian Federation on customs affairs by participants in foreign economic activity and persons engaged in activities in the field of customs;
  • implementation of the management of operational search units and units to combat drug smuggling of operational customs, customs and customs posts, units to combat particularly dangerous types of smuggling, operational and analytical units of operational customs and customs, organizational and inspection units, operational accounting units, units of organization and control over the activities of law enforcement units, units to combat with customs offenses in maritime transport, units to combat economic customs offenses, units of cooperation with law enforcement agencies of foreign countries of operational customs, special purpose units (special rapid response units of customs and operational customs, units of organization and control over the activities of special rapid response units of operational customs) (hereinafter – operational units of customs);
  • implementation of reception and verification of reports of crimes, registration of protocols for the acceptance of an oral statement of a crime and surrender, as well as the preparation of reports on the detection of signscrimesand the production by authorized officials of urgent investigative actions in criminal cases referred to the competence of customs authorities;
  • organizing and conducting operational support of criminal cases referred to the competence of customs authorities;
  • organization of interaction of operational units of customs authorities with other law enforcement and regulatory authorities of the Russian Federation, as well as with international law enforcement organizations on issues within the competence of the Main Directorate;
  • organization of interaction of operational units of customs authorities with structural units of customs authorities in the fight against smuggling and other crimes within the competence of the customs authorities of the Russian Federation, suppression of economic damage to the interests of the country, elimination of causes and conditions that prevent the maximum replenishment of the revenue part of the state budget;
  • preparation of proposals for the development and improvement of legislative and other regulatory legal acts in the field of customs affairs on issues related to the competence of the General Directorate;
  • organization of interaction of operational units of customs authorities with customs and other competent law enforcement agencies of foreign states, international organizations on issues related to the competence of the Main Directorate;
  • coordination of international activities of operational units of customs authorities with other law enforcement and regulatory authorities of the Russian Federation, as well as international law enforcement organizations on issues within the competence of the Main Directorate;
  • coordination of the activities of representative offices (representatives) of the Customs Service of the Russian Federation in foreign countries in terms of law enforcement cooperation.
GUIT

The Main Department of Information Technology

Code of the structural subdivision of the Federal Customs Service of Russia 0800

The Department carries out its activities in the following areas:

  • development of information customs technologies;
  • ensuring information security;
  • planning of equipping customs authorities with informatization tools;
  • scientific and technical;
    development and equipment of telecommunication networks;
  • ensuring confidential communications and radio communications;
  • coordination of the activities of the information technology service;
  • equipment of operational and technical means of customs control and security;
  • organization of customs control over fissile and radioactive materials;
  • organization of metrological support.
GUOTOiTK

The Main Directorate of the Organization of Customs Clearance and Customs Control

The code of the structural subdivision of the Federal Customs Service of Russia is 0100

The Department participates in the development of draft federal laws, acts of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation in the areas of activity of the Main Customs Administration.

GUTRD

Main Directorate of Customs Investigations and Inquiries

The code of the structural subdivision of the Federal Customs Service of Russia is 0400

GUFTDiTR

Main Directorate of Federal Customs Revenue and Tariff Regulation

The code of the structural subdivision of the Federal Customs Service of Russia is 0300

The Department exercises the powers of the administrator of federal budget revenues from receipts of customs and other payments from foreign economic activity in the field of customs affairs, coordinates and controls the work of customs authorities in this area of activity, organizes, coordinates and controls the collection by customs authorities of customs duties, taxes, anti-dumping, special and countervailing duties, customs duties and other payments, the correctness of the calculation of payments by customs authorities and persons responsible for their payment, and the timeliness of payment of these customs payments by these persons and their transfer by customs authorities to the federal budget in full.

Organizes and ensures the effective functioning of centralized and operational accounting and control systems for the receipt of customs and other payments to the federal budget.
Generates certificates and reports on the revenue side of the federal budget in the context of types of customs and other payments, customs authorities and the customs system as a whole for the management of the Federal Customs Service of Russia and interested executive authorities.

DVTU
Far Eastern Customs Administration.
Declarant
The person who declares the goods or on whose behalf the goods are declared.
Monetary instruments
Traveller's cheques, bills of exchange, cheques (bank cheques), as well as securities in documentary form that certify the issuer's (debtor's) obligation to pay money and in which the person to whom such payment is made is not specified.
Monetary instruments

Traveller's cheques, bills of exchange, cheques (bank cheques), as well as securities in documentary form that certify the issuer's (debtor's) obligation to pay money, which does not specify the person to whom such payment is made.

DKD
Delivery Control Document.
Long-term risk profile
Risk profilewith a set duration of 3 to 6 months.
DRVED MVES
Department Of Regulation Of Foreign Economic ActivityMves.
DT
Customs Declaration.
DTPO
Supplementary Sheet To The Customs Receipt Order.
DTS
Declaration Of Customs Value.
DTU
Dagestan Customs Administration.
The EAEU

An international organization of regional economic integration with international legal personality and established by the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union].

InThe EAEUfreedom of movement of goods, as well as services, capital and labor is ensured, and the implementation of a coordinated, coordinated or unified policy in the sectors of the economy.

The EAEU was created in order to comprehensively modernize, cooperate and increase the competitiveness of national economies and create conditions for stable development in the interests of improving the living standards of the population of the member states.

Synonyms- Eurasian Economic Union
EU ATM
Unified Air Traffic Management System.
ECE

Eurasian Economic Commission

The permanent supranational regulatory body of the Eurasian Economic Union - the EAEU (formerly the Customs Union (CU) and the Common Economic Space (CES)).

The main task of the Eurasian Economic Commission is to ensure the conditions for the functioning and development of the Eurasian Economic Union, the Customs Union and the Single Economic Space, to develop proposals in the field of integration within these associations.

Synonyms- Eurasian Economic Commission
Interested person
A person whose interests in relation to goods are affected by decisions, actions (inaction) of customs authorities or their officials.
Prohibitions and restrictions
Non-tariff regulation measures applied to goods transported across the customs border of the Union, including those introduced unilaterally in accordance with the treaty on the Union, technical regulation measures, sanitary, veterinary and sanitary
Zonal risk profile

A risk profile operating in the region of one customs office.

The decision to classify the risk profile as a zonal one is made by the Federal Customs Service of Russia.

The legal act of the Federal Customs Service of Russia regarding the risk profile is signed by the Deputy Chairman of the Federal Customs Service of Russia, who oversees the Risk and Operational Control Department of the Federal Customs Service of Russia or supervises the structural unit in the direction of which the risk has been identified.

Risk profile code -13

Risk identification
Actions aimed at detecting, recognizing and describing the risk.
IMPORT40 (IM40)
Release of GoodsFor Domestic Consumption.
INVOICE
Invoice.
Risk indicator

Certain criteria with pre-set parameters, deviation from which allows the selection of the object of control.

In relation to goods , such indicators can be:

  • quantity of goods
  • customs value
  • country of origin
  • the country of departure differs from the country of origin
  • the manufacturer is not a seller
  • commodity classification
  • excellent TN codeForeign economic activitythe product is used by other participants of foreign economic activity. with a frequency of more than 30%
  • the seller is a resident of a country included in the lists of offshore countries from the list of 108n
  • the method of customs value is not equal to different from the first
  • other indicators.

In relation to foreign trade participants, the following situations can serve as an indicator of risk:

  • the foreign trade participant has not moved goods before
  • previously, the foreign trade participant was adjusted in value due to desk inspections after the issue in the amount of more than 500,000 rubles.
  • previously, the participant of foreign economic activity was corrected by the codeHSas a result of desk inspections after the issue in the amount of more than 500,000 rubles.
  • there is information about previously committed offenses
  • when moving goods, there is an inadequate behavior of the carrier of the goods
  • there is a change in the design of the vehicle, allowing you to create and equip caches.
Foreign person
A person who is not a person of the EAEU member state
Foreign subjects of military-technical cooperation

Technical cooperation - foreign legal entities and individuals who have the right to carry out military-technical cooperation in accordance with the legislation of their states

Foreign goods
Goods that are not Union goods, including those that have lost the status of Union goods in accordance with this Code, as well as goods that have acquired the status of foreign goods (recognized as foreign goods) in accordance with this Code.
Intuitive risk profile
A risk profile appointed by a customs official based on his intuition and experience. The risk area is the presence of information from a customs official about a possible offense and (or) reasonable assumptions or relevant conclusions that the declared information about exported goods and vehicles of international transportation is unreliable. Provides for a risk minimization measure - 109 "customs inspectiongoods".
Synonyms- YPRES
Information resources of customs authorities
An ordered set of documented information (databases, other arrays of information) contained in the information systems of customs authorities.
Artificial islands
Fixed in accordance with the design documentation for their creation at the location of objects having alluvial, bulk, pile and other non-floating protruding above the water surface at maximum tide support base, used for the purpose of
ETC
Identification Customs Inspection.
UNECE ITC
Inland Transport Committee Of The United Nations Economic Commission For Europe.
KVTP MO
Committee On Military-Technical Assistance Of The Ministry Of Defense
CDP
Control And Dispatch Points
CMS
Coordinating Interdepartmental Council For Military-Technical Cooperation
HS CODE

The code of the classifier of the commodity nomenclature of foreign economic activity.

The commodity nomenclature of foreign economic activity was originally developed and introduced in 1988 after joining the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System. The HS of the USSR was first published in 1990.

After the collapse of the USSR, the Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity of the Commonwealth of Independent States was developed and adopted.

On 3.11.1995, an Agreement on the Unified Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity of the Commonwealth of Independent States was signed in Moscow. The Governments of the 12 CIS member States, striving to unify the forms of customs statistics and simplify customs procedures, have agreed to adopt a single CIS Customs Code based on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System of the World Customs Organization. On 1.01.1997, the CIS HS was put into effect.

With the creation of the EurAsEC Customs Union, a Unified Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity of the Customs Union was developed. Approved by the Decision of the Interstate Council of the Eurasian Economic Community (the supreme body of the Customs Union) No. 18 of 27.11.2009, as well as by the Decision of the Customs Union Commission No. 130 of 27.11.2009. Entered into force on 1.01.2010.

Synonyms- TN VED, TNVED
Quantitative risk assessment
The process of assigning a risk probability value.
Commercial documents
Documents used in the implementation of foreign trade and other activities, as well as to confirm transactions related to the movement of goods across the customs border of the Union (invoices (invoices), specifications, shipping (packaging) documents
BILL OF LADING
Document ForCargo, Sea Shipping Document.
the contract

International commercial agreement, international commercialthe contract, a foreign economic transaction, a transaction (agreement) between two or more parties located in different countries for the purchase and sale or delivery of goods, the performance of works or the provision of services or other types of economic activity in accordance with the terms agreed by the parties.

The contract is the basis of the foreign economic activity of economic entities. A contract will be considered international if it is concluded between parties that are under the jurisdiction of different states. In accordance with the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, a prerequisite for such a contract is the location of the commercial enterprises of the parties to the contract in different States.

For example, a contract will be considered international if it is concluded between firms of the same nationality, whose commercial enterprises are located in different states. Conversely, a contract concluded between firms of different nationalities located on the territory of the same State, in accordance with the terms of the Vienna Convention, will not be considered international.

Synonyms- International contract
Indirect measures to minimize risks

A set of measures aimed at carrying out customs operations with goods by developing and (or) modernizing customs and (or) information technologies, carrying out organizational and staff measures, applying tariff and non-tariff regulation, etc.

Short-term risk profile

Risk profile with a fixed validity period from 1 business day to 1 month.

CCC
Adjustment Of The Customs Value.
Person of the Member State
A legal entity, an organization that is not a legal entity established in accordance with the legislation of the member States, as well as an individual who has permanent residence in a member state, including an individual entrepreneur,
LNP
Personal Numbered Seals.
MVES
Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations.
International agreements of Member States with a third party
An international agreement of one of the Member States with a third party or an international agreement with a third party to which several or all Member States are parties.
International mailings
Parcels and shipments of written correspondence, which are objects of postal exchange in accordance with the acts of the Universal postal Union, are accompanied by documents provided for by the acts of the universal postal Union, are sent outside the customs
International customs transit

The customs regime under whichforeign goodsthey move through the customs territory of the Russian Federation under customs control between the place of their arrival in the customs territory of the Russian Federation and the place of their departure from this territory (if this is part of their journey that begins and ends outside the customs territory of the Russian Federation) without payment of customs duties and taxes, as well as without the application to goods of prohibitions and restrictions of an economic nature established in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on state regulation of foreign trade activities.

Measures to protect the domestic market
Special protective, anti-dumping, countervailing measures and othermeasures to protect the domestic market established in accordance with the treaty on the union, imposed on goods originating from third countries and imported into the customs territory of the union.
Measures to minimize risks

A set of measures consisting in the commission by authorized officials of the customs authority of certain actions in order to identify and suppress violations of customs legislation.Measures to minimize risksthey are applied by authorized customs officials during customs control both in accordance with the instructions in the risk profiles and by their own decision in accordance with the powers of the customs authority.

Synonyms- MMR
Measures of customs and tariff regulation
Measures applied in accordance with the Treaty on the Union in respect of goods imported (imported) into the customs territory of the Union and including the application of rates of import customs duties, tariff quotas, tariff preferences, tariff benefits.
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
Ministry of Justice.
IRU
International Road Transport Union.
MTU
Moscow Customs Administration.
Designated postal operator
A person officially appointed by a member country of the Universal Postal Union and providing postal services in accordance with the legislation of the member States and acts of the Universal Postal Union.
Cash on hand
Banknotes in the form of banknotes and treasury notes, coins, with the exception of coins made of precious metals, in circulation and being legal tender in member States or states (group of states) that are not members
Cash on hand

Banknotes in the form of banknotes and treasury notes, coins, with the exception of coins made of precious metals, which are in circulation and are legal tender in the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union or states (a group of foreign states) that are not members of the Eurasian Economic Union, including those withdrawn or withdrawn from circulation, but subject to exchange for banknotes are in circulation.

Taxes
Value added tax, excise taxes (excise tax or excise duty) levied in connection with the import of goods into the customs territory of the Union.
NATB
National Association of Customs Brokers.
VAT
Value Added Tax.
Illegal movement of goods across the customs border of the Union
Movement of goods across the customs border of the Unionoutside the places through which, in accordance with Article 10 of this Code, the movement of goods across the customs border of the Union must or can be carried out, or outside the working hours of the customs authorities, there is
Non-tariff regulation
A method of state regulation of foreign trade in goods carried out by introducing quantitative restrictions and other prohibitions and restrictions of an economic nature.
NET
The mass of the goods, taking into account only the primary packaging or without taking into account any packaging.
Informal risk profile

Risk profiles brought to the customs authorities on paper, the risks of which are identified by an official independently, based on the risk area.

NTP
Violation Of Customs Regulations.
OBK
Department For Combating Smuggling And Customs Violations.
Risk area

Separate grouped risk objects, in respect of which the application of separate forms of customs control or their combination is required, as well as improving the efficiency of the quality of customs administration.

About the accident
Department For Combating Customs Offenses.
All-Russian risk profile

A risk profile operating on the entire customs territory of the Russian Federation or in separate customs authorities located in the region of activity of differentMOUTH.

The decision to assign the risk profile to the all-Russian one is made by the Federal Customs Service of Russia.

The legal act of the FCS of Russia regarding the risk profile is signed by the Chairman of the FCS of Russia or a person authorized by him.

Risk profile code -11

Mandatory risk profile

Risk certainly applicable in all cases, including when moving goods by a person included in the list of persons moving goods, in respect of which the risk minimization measures contained in the risk profiles are not applied.

Risk profile code -55

Synonyms- mandatory risk profile
OGTD
Final Cargo Customs Declaration.
The United States of America
Department of Inquiry.
ODTO
Department Of Documentary Customs Clearance.
OKDT
Department Of Goods Delivery Control.
ONEC
Department Of Non-Tariff And Expert Control.
OOD
Department Of Inquiry Organization.
Orientation

Information about the medium degree of risk, to minimize which it is impractical to develop a risk profile due to the inaccuracy (wide scope) of such information.Orientationit does not contain instructions (recommendations) on the application of customs control forms and measures to minimize risks. Orientations are brought to the customs authorities as information used in the customs control of goods and vehicles.

Orientation is advisable, as a rule, in the following cases:

  • if, as a result of the analysis of information by customs officials, a medium-level risk is identified;
  • if, according to the results of the analysis of the effectiveness of the risk profile, its low effectiveness is recognized, however, informing customs officials about the potential risk remains appropriate;
  • if it is necessary to inform the customs authorities about the medium-level risk on the basis of information received from other state bodies of the Russian Federation, as well as foreign customs services.

The orientation contains the following basic information:

  • the validity period of the orientation (no more than three months);
  • the scope of the orientation (including risk indicators and customs authorities in which it is advisable to use the orientation);
  • descriptive part (description of the information that is brought to the customs authorities);
  • contact official of the Federal Customs Service of Russia authorized to give advice on the content of the orientation (surname, initials, phone number, email address).

The information contained in the guidelines is taken into account when choosing and applying risk minimization measures by customs officials in accordance with their existing powers

ORTHOPHS
Department For Work With Goods Converted To Federal Property.
OTO
Customs Clearance Department.
OTP
Department Of Customs Payments.
OTR
Department of Customs Investigations.
OTIA
Department Of Customs Statistics And Analysis.
OFTK
Department Of Actual Customs Control.
Risk assessment
Actions to identify, analyze risk and determine the level of risk.
SEZ
Special Economic Zone.
TRANSACTION PASSPORT

The basic document of currency control issued by the exporter of goods by a resident of the Russian Federation in a bank and containing information on a foreign economic transaction set out in a standardized form, necessary for the implementation of this control.

Synonyms- PS
PGTD
Preliminary Cargo Customs Declaration.
Carrier
A person who transports (transports) goods and (or) passengers across the customs border of the Union and (or) transports (transports) goods under customs control through the customs territory of the Union. when moving goods.