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11. The Cost of Import-Exporting and the transit of goods
Import

The number of companies who deal with import and transit of the goods:

YES 119 25.0%
NO 326 68.5%
NO ANSWER 31 6.5%
Total 476 100.0%

Giving a total of all respondents 476.

• JUS - Out of 119 respondent importers, 69.7% claim that they were asked for certification documents (certification in accordance with JUS standards), during the importation process
63% of importers were required to disclose their certificates
85,3% of those who were compliant with JUS [Yugoslavian Standards] filed for certificates approximately 20 times per year

Time needed for compliance with domestic standards:
• from 1 to 60 days
• average is 6 days per company
• average time lost when an employee assists in this process 7 worker/days

Costs of concordance with domestic standards:

Costs of official fees
10 DM minimum costs
10,000 DM maximum costs
1,016 DM average costs

Bribe costs
50 DM minimum costs
3,000 DM maximum costs
663 DM average costs

Time needed for completion of the entire importation process (in phases)

  days worker-days
Importer's services 7 6
Transport services 2 2.9
Customs duty collection 2.9 3.8
Storage in customs terminals 0.5 0.5
Obligatory insurance 2.6 2.8
Traffic police check-ups 1.1 2.2
The rest 1.6 4.3
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 Table of contents
1 Overview
 Part 1/4
2 Registering a business
3 Real estate building and reconstruction
4 Construction of new buildings
5 Reconstruction / adaptation of real estate
6 Utilization of buildings for business purposes
 Part 2/4
7 Work Permits
8 Purchase of equipment in the past 3 years
 Part 3/4
9 Attaining a JUS certificates
10 Costs of obtaining certificates
 Part 4/4
11 Import
12 Export
 
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