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A working seminar on the implementation of the international eTIR procedure was held in Dushanbe within the framework of the second meeting of the high-level working group on the development of the multimodal transport corridor "Tajikistan – Uzbekistan – Turkmenistan – Iran – Turkey" (TUTIT) with possible expansion to China. This was reported on Wednesday by the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Tajikistan.
The seminar was held with the participation of representatives of the Ministry of Transport and the Customs Service under the Government of Tajikistan, the International Road Transport Union (IRU), the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), the European Commission, as well as relevant agencies of the Central Asian countries.
As specified by the Ministry, the main goal of the event was to promote the implementation of a single digital customs transit system based on the decisions of the UN Economic Commission for Europe. In particular, issues of digitalization of customs procedures, coordination of lists of necessary data for eTIR declarations, as well as the current status of the application of transit procedures in the participating countries were discussed.
“This format allows us to identify similar problems in existing approaches, as well as formulate practical proposals for their harmonization,” the Deputy Minister of Transport of the Republic of Tajikistan noted during his speech.
The seminar participants stressed the importance of coordinating efforts to implement digital solutions in international transportation, noting that the development of the TUTIT corridor in combination with the use of the eTIR and eCMR systems can significantly increase the efficiency of transit, reduce costs and minimize administrative barriers.
Let us recall that the Republic of Tajikistan is a party to the Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR), and has also joined the eCMR electronic consignment note system developed within the framework of the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR).
