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February 22, 2014 Saturday 05:02 AM GMT+4
Armenia to solve problem of customs tariffs to join Customs Union - Armenian PM
YEREVAN February 22
- Customs tariffs is the key issue to be settled for Armenia to join
the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Armenian Prime
Minister Tigran Sarkisyan told Itar-Tass on Saturday.
"We have no problems, we have some issues we have revealed and
discussed with our colleague and outlined ways to settle them," he
stressed. In his words, there were "three groups of issues to be
considered." "The key task we are now facing is the problem of customs
tariffs," he noted. "The matter is that there are a range of goods, on
which customs duties are higher in Customs Union than they are in
Armenia. We must conduct talks to specify the list of goods we are
very sensitive to and which we need exemptions on."
According to Sarkisya, the Armenia side had informed the Eurasian
Economic Commission about such a list. "So, we will have a dialogue
within the next week," he noted, adding that the key goal of this
dialogue was to agree the list of goods subject to exemptions, the
terms of such exemptions, as well as to see where Armenia could make
concessions.
"Another range of issues we are yet to agree concerns the protection
of intellectual property and parallel imports," the Armenian head of
state went on to say. "We must discuss it, since the regimes used in
Armenia and the Customs Union are conflicting: parallel imports is
allowed in Armenia, whereas it is banned in the Customs Union."
Yet another package of issues to settle concerns technical
regulations. The Armenian prime minister noted that his country had
some goods that were outside technical regulations, while such
products were subject to technical regulation in the Customs Union.
"It means that we must reach agreement on whether it would be
expedient to apply technical regulations to these commodity groups or
an exclusion on some of them may be made for Armenia," he said.
"There are reforms we have made considerable progress on, we must go
forward together and there is no sense in changing our laws,"
Sarkisyan said, adding that the Customs Union was guided by this very
principle: "if this or that member country outstrips the rest in
certain reforms, we must go along together." Admitted that there were
reforms Armenia was lagging behind in. "It means that we must catch up
with our colleagues. "That is why we have singled out those spheres
where we must harmonize our progressive movement," he said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
February 22, 2014 Saturday 05:02 AM GMT+4
Armenia to solve problem of customs tariffs to join Customs Union - Armenian PM
YEREVAN February 22
- Customs tariffs is the key issue to be settled for Armenia to join
the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Armenian Prime
Minister Tigran Sarkisyan told Itar-Tass on Saturday.
"We have no problems, we have some issues we have revealed and
discussed with our colleague and outlined ways to settle them," he
stressed. In his words, there were "three groups of issues to be
considered." "The key task we are now facing is the problem of customs
tariffs," he noted. "The matter is that there are a range of goods, on
which customs duties are higher in Customs Union than they are in
Armenia. We must conduct talks to specify the list of goods we are
very sensitive to and which we need exemptions on."
According to Sarkisya, the Armenia side had informed the Eurasian
Economic Commission about such a list. "So, we will have a dialogue
within the next week," he noted, adding that the key goal of this
dialogue was to agree the list of goods subject to exemptions, the
terms of such exemptions, as well as to see where Armenia could make
concessions.
"Another range of issues we are yet to agree concerns the protection
of intellectual property and parallel imports," the Armenian head of
state went on to say. "We must discuss it, since the regimes used in
Armenia and the Customs Union are conflicting: parallel imports is
allowed in Armenia, whereas it is banned in the Customs Union."
Yet another package of issues to settle concerns technical
regulations. The Armenian prime minister noted that his country had
some goods that were outside technical regulations, while such
products were subject to technical regulation in the Customs Union.
"It means that we must reach agreement on whether it would be
expedient to apply technical regulations to these commodity groups or
an exclusion on some of them may be made for Armenia," he said.
"There are reforms we have made considerable progress on, we must go
forward together and there is no sense in changing our laws,"
Sarkisyan said, adding that the Customs Union was guided by this very
principle: "if this or that member country outstrips the rest in
certain reforms, we must go along together." Admitted that there were
reforms Armenia was lagging behind in. "It means that we must catch up
with our colleagues. "That is why we have singled out those spheres
where we must harmonize our progressive movement," he said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress