IX. Using prepositions – Revision

to

by

into

within

in

with

for

Fill the gaps in these sentences with suitable preposition from the list above.

1. Sometimes the time terms for the entry …….force of legal acts may be shortened or may have a retroactive effect.

2. The Federal Customs Authority …….the limits of its competence shell issue normative legal acts pertaining…….the customs system.

3. Commencement and termination of the events stipulated ……this Customs Code shall be calculated ……accordance ……the order laid down by this Customs Code.

4. Any information obtained by the customs authorities shall be used exclusively ……the customs purposes.

X. Complete the sentences using your words:

1. The customs authorities shall furnish……

2. Loss of the documents containing state secrets…..

3. The clauses of the legal acts of the Federal Customs Authority…..

4. No person may be prosecuted for……

5. The state shall be obliged to……

XI. Topics for discussion:

1. What are the main principles of working with information obtained by the customs authorities?

2. What should customs officer do in the case of losses caused by inaccurate information?

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Article 11. Definitions of Basic Terms Used in the Customs Code

1. The basic terms used in this Customs Code shall have the following definitions:

1) goods / commodities / merchandise: any movable property conveyed across the customs border, as well as the motor vehicles denoted as immovable articles. The means of transport specified in Item 5) herein shall not be qualified as goods or merchandise;

2) Russian goods: any merchandise which, for customs clearance purposes, enjoys the status of free circulation in the customs territory of the Russian Federation, i.e., the merchandise completely manufactured in the Russian Federation which has not been exported from the customs territory of the Russian Federation; the merchandise manufactured for free circulation in the customs territory of the Russian Federation; and the merchandise manufactured In the Russian Federation from the goods manufactured completely or released for free circulation in the customs territory of the Russian Federation;

3) foreign goods: any merchandise which does not qualify as Russian goods as per Item 2) herein;

4) goods under customs control: foreign goods delivered to the customs territory of the Russian Federation prior to their release for free circulation, their de facto crossing of the customs border in the process of their exportation, or up to the moment of their destruction, as well as Russian goods during their exportation from the customs territory of the Russian Federation up to their de facto crossing of the customs border;

5) means of transport: any seagoing vessel (riverboat) (including self-propelled and towed lighters, barges, and hydrofoils), hovercraft, aircraft~ motor vehicle (including trailers, semi-trailers, and combination transport vehicles), or a single unit of railway rolling stock which is used for the international paid haulage of passengers or for the paid or free industrial or commercial haulage of goods, as well as their authorised spare parts, repair tools and equipment thereto, fuel and lubricants contained in their standard tanks if they are transported together with the means of transport;

6) status of goods and means of transport: absence of or pending prohibitions and restrictions with regard to use and disposal of the goods and means of transport as defined by this Customs Code;

7) conveyance of goods and/or means of transport across the customs border: the activities undertaken to import to or to export from the customs territory of the Russian Federation goods and means of transport regardless of the method of conveyance;

8) importation of goods and means of transport to the customs territory of the Russian Federation: de facto crossing by goods and/or means of transport of the customs border and all subsequent procedures with goods and/or means of transport stipulated by this Customs Code prior to their clearance by the customs authorities;

9) exportation of goods and means of transport from the customs territory of the Russian Federation: submission of a customs declaration or performance of the activities specified in the next paragraph herein which are directly intended to export goods and/or means of transport, as well as all the subsequent procedures with goods and/or means of transport stipulated by this Customs Code prior to their de facto crossing of the customs border.

10) The actions undertaken with a direct intent to export goods and/or means of transport from the customs territory of the Russian Federation shall involve, entry of a natural person who is departing from the Russian Federation into the customs control zone; entry of a motor vehicle to a customs border gate at the State Border of the Russian Federation for the purpose of exiting the customs territory of the Russian Federation; submission of merchandise to shipment organisations, of mail to international post offices for their dispatch from the customs territory of the Russian Federation; actions undertaken by a person with an intent to effect de facto conveyance across the customs border of goods and/or means of transport circumventing the customs border gates set up in accordance with applicable statutes of the Russian Federation;

11) illegal conveyance of goods and/or means of transport across the customs border: perpetration of actions involving importation to and exportation from the customs territory of the Russian Federation of goods and/or means of transport in violation of the procedures set forth by this Customs Code;

12) customs authorities / customs offices: the Federal Customs Authority and all the customs authorities, offices and their officers of the Russian Federation subordinated to it, except the cases when this Customs Code makes reference to customs authorities of foreign countries;

13) person: any juridical and natural person unless this Customs Code contains a different provision thereto;

14) Russian person: any juridical person set up in accordance with Russian legislation and located in the Russian Federation, as well as any natural person who is a permanent resident in the Russian Federation including those residents who are registered as individual entrepreneurs;

15) foreign person: any person other than those specified in Sub-Item 13) herein;

16) declarant: any person declaring goods or the person in whose name said goods are declared;

17) carrier: a person who conveys merchandise across the customs border, a person who conveys

merchandise subject to customs control inside the perimeter of the customs territory of the Russian Federation, and/or a person responsible for the use of means or transportation;

18) customs broker (agent): an intermediary [juridical] person fulfilling customs clearance formalities on behalf of or as instructed by a declarant or another person who is designated or authorised to perform customs operations in accordance with this Customs Code;

19) interested person: any person whose interests are affected directly and individually by the decisions, actions (inaction) of the customs authorities with regards to merchandise and/or means of transport unless this Customs Code contains other provisions thereto;

20) customs control: all measures undertaken by customs authorities for the purpose of ensuring the observance of the customs regulations of the Russian Federation;

21) customs control: the activities performed by persons and customs officers with regards to merchandise and means of transport subject to customs control in the process of their customs

clearance as is stipulated by the provisions of this Customs Code;

22) customs procedure: all clauses and provisions of this Customs Code stipulating the sequence of

customs operations for determining the status of merchandise and/or means of transport for customs clearance purposes;

23) customs treatment: the customs procedures-establishing the terms and conditions including the procedures of subjecting merchandise and/or means of transport to customs duties, taxes, prohibitions and restrictions stipulated by the Federal Law of the Russian Federation on the State Regulation of Foreign Trade Activities, as well as the status of merchandise and/or means of transport for customs clearance purposes depending on the intent of their conveyance across the customs border and their use in the customs territory of the Russian Federation or beyond;

24) clearance: actions performed by customs authorities sanctioning the interested persons to use and/or dispose of merchandise in accordance with the customs procedure applicable to said merchandise;

25) free circulation: circulation of goods in the customs territory of the Russian Federation without any prohibitions or restrictions stipulated by the customs of the Russian Federation;

26) taxes: value-added and excise taxes levied by customs authorities on merchandise due to its conveyance across the customs border of the Russian Federation in accordance with the Tax Code of the Russian Federation and this Customs Code;

27) domestic taxes: value-added and excise taxes levied on merchandise during its circulation in the territory of the Russian Federation;

28) customs declaration: an authorised documentary form for declaring goods and information thereto which is submitted to customs authorities in accordance with this Customs Code;

29) transportation (shipment) documents: bills of lading, waybills, packing lists or other shipment documents confirming the availability and- contents of goods shipment contracts, as well as the documents accompanying merchandise and means of transport during international transit;

30) commercial documents: invoices, shipping and packing lists, and other documents used in conformity with international trade agreements of the Russian Federation, applicable laws of the Russian Federation or accepted trade turnover practices pertaining to foreign economic and other activities which, owing to law, agreement of the parties or accepted trade turnover practices, are used for confirming the validity of transactions predicated on conveyance of goods across the customs border unless this Customs Code contains other provisions thereto;

31) customs documents: any documents made or compiled exclusively for customs clearance purposes.

3. All the other terms and notions contained in this Customs Code are used in the meanings defined, respectively, by the Russian legislation on taxes and duties, "the-Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the Law of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offences, and other Russian laws.

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