YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The International Road Transportation's Regional Custom-House is the only customs body in Armenia to have completely passed to the self-declaring system, as a result of which the number of those engaged in foreign economic activities through the custom-house has increased. In the words of the head of the Customs Tariffs and Registration Unit of the Regional Custom-House Gevorg Saghoyan, the number of those engaged in foreign economic activities through the custom-house has increased by about 75% in the past two years. The number of deals concluded by them has also grown: in the first 10 months of 2005, about 3,000 deals were registered, in 2006, this index made about 3,600, while in the same period of 2007 - about 5,100. G. Saghoyan said that a growth in customs revenues collected by the customs-house has been registered. Particularly, in 10 months of 2005, customs revenues of 5 billion 482 million drams were collected, in the same period of 2006 - revenues of 6 billion 217 million drams, and in the first ten months of this year, customs revenues made 10 billion 454 million drams. According to him, commodity turnover with European countries is mainly done through the custom-house, and statistical data of the past two years shows that previously old conveyers were mostly imported into Armenia with the aim of establishing local production, where new ones are imported now, and their imports have considerably grown.

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