In early October, the first stage of the new electronic customs declaration system Astana-1 was launched in Kazakhstan. This was reported by Minister of Finance Bakhyt Sultanov during the meeting of the Government.

Bakhyt Sultanov reported that since October 1 a new information system with the conditional name ‘electronic border’, the first component of the Astana-1 system in the part of customs transit, has been launched across the country and now all transit in the country is formalized according to the new system. Over the past two days, the new system has issued 1157 declarations and the average clearance time was 16 minutes – this is four times faster than before.

"In addition, the business has already begun to feel real savings from the new system because preliminary information has been transformed into a transit declaration and now there is no need to spend time and money on registration twice," B. Sultanov noted.

He also noted that the system operates in a regular mode, there is a complete exchange of information with the EAEU countries on issued and closed transit declarations. In addition, by the end of December, a phased launch of all other systems is planned and from January 1, 2018, the Astana-1 system will operate in full mode throughout the country.

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The introduction of the information system Astana-1 is aimed at optimizing customs policies and procedures in accordance with WTO standards, international standards and best practices, the introduction of electronic declaration system, reducing the number of documents for export and import and processing time, introducing advanced risk management techniques and post-audit.

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