Text Customs Control and Modern Technologies

Task I. Read the text to find its main idea.

In 2003 during the meeting in Canada the leaders of the G8 countries suggested the International organizations to develop the measures on ensuring the maximum security of trade interchange.

In this connection, in June, 2005 at the session of the World Customs Organization (WCO) the Frame standards on safety and facilitation of global trade have been adopted. It was a new mechanism combining the trade assistance measures with the safety ensuring measures.

These standards give wide interpretation of safety - it means not only the safety of the enterprise logistics' chains, but also economic safety of the trade participants and of the states, in the territory of which these operations are carried out. The mechanism will be based on preliminary informing and electronic declaring.

The mentioned framework document determines 4 principles:

- preliminary exchange of data in respect of commodity deliveries in an automatic mode (the experts of the World Customs Organization think that this principle allows not only to refuse the traditional paper documents, but also to carry out certain preparatory customs operations beforehand, this will essentially reduce the time of customs clearance of goods at their arrival to the necessary place in the country of import);

- creation of a risk analysis and management system, which will allow examining only the deliveries constituting real threat;

- creation on the border of conditions for efficient control of vehicles and containers (this principle assumes equipping the passing points with special devices - inspection and examination complexes for controlling bulky cargoes);

- creation of partnership relations between business community and the State represented by its supervising bodies.

Task II. Find the English equivalents to the following:

главы стран ‘большой восьмерки’; безопасность и упрощение мировой торговли; предварительное информирование; таможенная очистка по прибытии; система анализа и управления рисками; электронное декларирование; контроль транспортных средств и контейнеров; пункты пропуска.

Task III. Answer the questions.

1. What did the leaders of the G8 countries suggest the International organizations at the meeting in Canada?

2. What was adopted at the session of the World Customs Organization?

3. What principles does the mentioned framework document determine? Be ready to describe them.

Task IV. Complete the following sentences using the text.

1. In 2003 during the meeting in Canada the leaders of the G8 countries suggested______.

2. The Frame standards on safety and facilitation were a new mechanism that______.

3. The new mechanism will be based on ______.

4. The mentioned framework document determines _______.

5. Carrying out certain preparatory customs operations beforehand will essentially reduce _______.

6. A risk analysis and management system will allow _____.

7. Inspection and examination complexes for controlling bulky cargoes are usually called ______.

Task V. Read the text below to answer the question:

What are the basic principles of the customs control?

World trade globalization requires introduction of new approaches into the Customs Services activities having been set by the International Convention on Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures, the new reduction of which was adopted on June 26, 1999 by the World Customs Organization. This convention has declared the basic principles of the customs control which facilitate the international trade:

• control on the basis of risk management;

• use of audit methods;

• practical use of information technologies to the maximum extent.

Модуль 3: «Основные принципы организации таможенного контроля товаров и транспортных средств, перемещаемых через таможенную границу России»

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Customs Control of Means of Conveyance

Task I. Read the text and speak on the main procedure of Customs control of a vessel / an aircraft.

All means of conveyance, entering or leaving the country are legally liable to customs clearance and control. The person in charge of a vessel or aircraft must answer the Customs officer’s questions and produce the necessary documents in authorized form in respect of the means of conveyance, its cargo and crew.

The Customs officer on duty will check the inward documents. If they are in order, the necessary papers are signed and the date is stamped.

All means of conveyance are subject to customs control for the duration of their stay in the port or airfield.

The Customs officer on duty must inspect the means of conveyance and seal up those premises on board a vessel or aircraft that contain those goods or articles which may not be landed or taken ashore.

Not a person, except the customs authority, can break or erase the seals.

Personal effects of the crew and passengers are examined because any ship or aircraft is liable to rummage for contraband. Undeclared things are liable to confiscation, so they may be seized.

Prior to departure the person in charge must produce the outward documents and to state in them the changes which took place during the stay.

The Customs officer must inspect the means of conveyance, check the places under seal and remove the seals, examine the crew’s personal effects and the passengers’ if any.

Upon payment of all duties and clearing all the formalities the Customs officer grants a permit to depart.

Task II. Read these Russian phrases and match them with their English equivalents below:

1. Капитан корабля; командир экипажа самолета; экипаж; транспортное средство;

2. предъявлять необходимые документы; по установленной форме; выполнение всех формальностей;

3. товары, ввозимые в страну; товары, вывозимые за границу; личные вещи; предметы, которые запрещено сносить на берег;

4. подлежать досмотру; опечатать помещения на борту; взломать или стереть пломбу; удалить пломбы;

5. представить документы для оформления отбытия; указать изменения; дать разрешение на выход в рейс;

6. зависеть от маршрута; судно досматривается; у таможенников есть основания подозревать;

7. перед выходом в рейс; во время стоянки; после уплаты всех пошлин.

Task III. Translate a scrap of dialogue below about Customs Control of a vessel / an aircraft into Russian, sentence by sentence:

What formalities must a person in charge of a vessel or aircraft go through on arrival in the country?	The person in charge of a vessel or aircraft must answer the Customs officer's questions and produce the necessary documents in authorized form as to means of conveyance, its cargo and crew.
What information must be reported to the Customs Officer?	Information about any type of articles and goods brought in or taken out must be reported to the Customs officer.
What are the responsibilities of the Customs officer on duty when a ship (or an aircraft) arrives?	The Customs officer must inspect the means of conveyance and seal up those premises on board a vessel (or aircraft) that contain those goods or articles which may not be landed (or taken ashore).
Can the seals be removed by the master or the crew?	No person, except the customs authority, can break or erase the seals.
Why are personal effects of the crew and passengers examined?	Personal effects of the crew and passengers are examined because any ship or aircraft is liable to rummage for contraband.
What are the Customs regulations in respect of undeclared things?	Undeclared things are liable to forfeiture, so they may be seized.
In what cases is a ship (or an aircraft) rummaged?	It depends on its route, type of cargo and intelligence data. It's rummaged if there are any grounds for the Customs to suspect that the ship may carry some contraband.
What documents must the master (the captain) produce to the Customs authorities prior to departure?	The person in charge must produce the outward documents and state in them the changes which took place during the stay in the country.
When will the Customs officer grant a permit for the ship (or the aircraft) to depart?	The Customs officer must inspect the means of conveyance, check the places under seal and remove the seals, examine the crew’s personal effects and see to it that formalities are cleared. Upon payment of all duties and clearing all the formalities the Customs officer grants a permit to depart.

Task IV. Translate the sentences below into English:

1. Капитан корабля или командир экипажа самолета обязаны отвечать на вопросы таможенного инспектора и предъявить необходимые документы (по утвержденной форме), касающиеся транспортного средства, груза и экипажа.

2. Таможенному инспектору необходимо сообщить информацию относительно любых вещей и товаров, ввозимых в страну.

3. Таможенный инспектор должен досмотреть транспортное средство и опечатать те помещения на борту корабля (или самолета), которые содержат вещи или товары, запрещенные к ввозу.

4. Никто не имеет права взломать или стереть пломбу.

5. Личные вещи пассажиров и экипажа досматриваются, так как любой корабль или самолет подлежит досмотру на наличие контрабанды.

6. Необходимость тщательного досмотра самолета или корабля определяется его маршрутом, типом груза и данными разведки.

7. Судно (или самолет) досматривается, если у таможенников есть основания подозревать, что на корабле (на нем) может провозиться контрабанда.

8. Перед выходом в рейс командир экипажа должен представить документы для оформления отбытия и указать в них изменения, которые произошли за время стоянки.

9. Таможенник досматривает транспортное средство, проверяет опломбированные помещения и удаляет пломбы, досматривает багаж экипажа и пассажиров.

10. После уплаты всех пошлин и выполнения всех формальностей, таможенник дает разрешение на выход в рейс.