Minister proposes MPs to present list for possible reduction of customs duties on goods imported from EAEU  

YEREVAN, MARCH 4, ARMENPRESS. Minister of economic development and investments of Armenia Tigran Khachatryan offered the MPs to present the list of priority goods in order to apply to the respective agencies of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) with the request of reducing their customs duties, reports Armenpress.

At the meeting in the parliamentary standing committee on regional and Eurasian integration affairs, the committee chair Mikayel Melkumyan said increase in customs duties of cars, as well as in several other products is expected in Armenia. He proposed the minister to raise these issues at the EAEU Commission and take actions for reducing the customs duties.

“During the transition period, Armenia has been granted with the privilege for cars, wheat and other goods in order to pass the membership path. And these talks lasted quite long. The given transition period is already privileged. The talk has already been held once, and what we have received as a privileged period, has deadlines in the document”, the minister said.

In his turn Mikayel Mekumyan stated that many issues have not been calculated right in the talks in terms of timeframe.

The minister responded stating that he doesn’t mean that everything is over for the talks. “We should be guided with a selective principle for the future actions. I ask you to jointly decide the types of goods which are of priority significance. We cannot re-negotiate for the whole list. We also have our notifications”, the minister said.

Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan