Customs said on the telephone

Telecommunications Market uslug24-06-2009 Customs answered phones for the Federal Customs Service (FCS) of Russia, finally, said manufacturers and distributors of cellular phones, which have raised havoc because of the increased term of customs clearance. Recall, on the eve of the amendments to the procedure of customs clearance of cellular phones. New instruction requires customs officials to inspect the entire shipment, each carton with the product, testing it on all reported specifications. In addition, the models are checked batteries, built-in memory card, IMEI-number of tubes and so on. Until June 2009 the audit was selective. As a result, suppliers and recipient phones began complaining that the last two days of production did not leave the customs office, which has collected hundreds of thousands of devices, according to Russian media today. As reported in Bigness.ru FCS of Russia, the measure was intended to strengthen customs control of imported batches of mobile phones.