YEREVAN, DECEMBER 18, NOYAN TAPAN. Since 2001, 1,689 TIR booklets have been given to Armenian cargo carriers. NT correspondent was informed by the office of Armenia's Association of International Carriers that in 2001, only 42 TIR booklets were provided, in 2006 - 437 booklets, while in 2007 - 369 TIR booklets. Booklets are given for one trip, thanks to which vehicles pass by simplified order the territories of about 80 countries - members of the TIR Convention. The vehicle of the cargo carrier with a TIR booklet undergoes customs examination only in the arrival and departure countries. A TIR booklet costs 55 thousand drams (about 180 USD). Over 80 countries are members of the TIR Convention which was signed in 1975. Armenia joined the TIR Convention in 1994.

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