Customs

In this part of the CEFTA Web Portal you will find the most important customs import/export procedures separately for each CEFTA Economy. Procedures include but are not limited to: 1.The location of customs clearance offices; 2.The working hours in each office; 3.The procedures to follow based on the destination of your goods; 4.The documents to present to customs authorities for obtaining approval for the relevant destination; 5.The officially approved documents given to you by customs authorities in each case; 6.The procedures followed by customs authorities for calculating the customs value of your goods; 7.The definition of rules of origins determining customs preferential or non preferential tariffs; 8.The Free Trade Agreements signed by each CEFTA Economy with the other signatories. In cases where the final destination of goods is one of the CEFTA Economies, please refer to the import procedures section of this Economy on this portal. In cases where goods transit through different economies before arriving to their final destination, please refer to the transit procedures of these economies. If goods exit one of the CEFTA Economies included in this site, please refer to the export procedures for the relevant Economy.



Albania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
North Macedonia
Moldova
Montenegro
Serbia
Kosovo*


Laws and regulations

 

The main regulatory documents on outward processing are the Customs Code and the Government Decision nr. 1140 on Regulations for Customs Destinations.

Subject

Outward processing is the customs regime when Moldovan goods are temporarily exported from Moldova in order to be processed in another economy and then imported back to Moldova in the form of compensatory products. In outward processing, domestic goods are processed or transformed outside Moldova without the application of measures of economic policy, while the resulting products are imported with full or partial exemption from customs duties with the application of measures of economic policy.

Procedure

Outward processing implies the following operations:
1. Manufacturing of goods, including assembling, fitting or matching of products;
2. Processing of goods;
3. Reparation of goods, including mending and adjusting.

Authorization

 

The authorization for outward processing is issued at request by the Customs Service only to legal entities from the Republic of  Moldova, and should include the quantities and the timeframe for the compensatory products to be imported back to Moldova or to be given another customs destination.

Period for re-import of compensating goods

 

When establishing the timeframe, the Customs Service takes into account the time needed for processing operations and import of the compensatory products. The timeframe shall commence from the date when the goods are placed under the outward processing regime and can be extended on the basis of a well grounded request from the owner of the authorization. Businesses failing to comply with the regime requirements are subject to penalties, liabilities and procedures of customs debt recovery.

Contact

Relevant institutions

Customs Service of the Republic of Moldova
Address: 30, Columna str., Chisinau, MD-2001, Republic of Moldova
Press Service: + 373 22/ 574-120
Anteroom: + 373 22/ 574-201
Secretariat: + 373 22/ 574-182
E-mail: vama@customs.gov.md
Website: www.customs.gov.md