Bridgestone project in the Russian Federation (fresh news)

At the initiative of Bridgestone and within the framework of cooperation on realization of Bridgestone large investment project in Russia our company, VTN-Agency, has prepared and arranged a working meeting with leading officials of Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation (FCS).

An event has taken place on February 19, 2015 in the FCS office in Moscow. “Bridgestone Tire Manufacturing C.I.S. LLC”, “Nippon Express (Rus)” LLC and VTN-Agency have been represented by high-level executives.

At the meeting there have been discussed current issues of goods classification and optimization of customs procedures for goods imported to build “Bridgestone Tire Manufacturing C.I.S. LLC” factory in Ulyanovsk - the largest Japanese investment project on Russian soil at the moment. VTN-Agency proposed for consideration several different options for acceleration of customs clearance process.

Mr. Sergey Konovalenko, Head of Customs Cooperation Department of FCS emphasized that FCS is open for the international cooperation and ready to develop the modern customs technologies giving certain advantages to major and reliable partners like “Bridgestone Tire Manufacturing C.I.S. LLC” on basis of preliminary data interchange. He suggested and expressed support for development of “Green Corridor” procedure for this project as a trial customs technology.

Participants expressed content with results of the meeting and outlined further steps to be taken to promote these results.