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12. The Cost of Import-Exporting and the transit of goods |
Export
• The number of export firms here is small – 22.3%
• Number of reported export operations (45) was smaller
then import ops (51)
• total value of export (1,859,260 DM) was greater then
import (approx. 600,000 DM)
• average value of export business is larger then import by
approx. one third
Duration of some phases of the export process:
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days |
worker-days |
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Exporter's services |
7.8 |
5 |
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Transport services |
1.7 |
1.9 |
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Customs duty collection |
2.3 |
4.9 |
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Storage in customs terminals |
9.9 |
3.6 |
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Obligatory insurance |
1.2 |
0 |
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Traffic police check-ups |
1.2 |
1.4 |
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The rest |
0 |
0 |
‘Associated costs and charges’
Costs during export: The average cost of customs duties is approximately
50 DM
The following costs have not been enumerated but, companies
are vociferously complaining about them:
Customs warehouse services – 12.2% of exporters were
required to purchase these services – at times when not required
Inspection services and their performance
• over 80% of companies have been ‘visited’ by financial and
revenue (tax) inspection teams
• average number of inspectors on inspection teams is 1-2
• greatest The greatest single-item costs incurred by companies
were costs directly related to inspections of the financial
and revenue police, the institution responsible for issuing
permits (medicines) and market inspections
• financial and revenue police, police, fire inspection, sanitary
inspection, inspection of Federal Institute for standards and
foreign currencies control inspection incurred the highest costs
in the category of "declaration of misuses or mistakes during
the inspection process”
• incomes gained through penalties during the confiscation of
goods are to be submitted to the financial and revenue police,
sanitary and market inspection
• These inspection organs are quite prone and open to bribery.
More than 12.4% of respondents openly admitted having made some
kind of "treatment, desert, snack" (bribe) for the financial
police inspectors
• Severity of penalties and the settlement thereof is directly
correlated with the willingness of ‘targeted’ firms to offer
a bribe
Trading and correspondence with specific regions
• about 40% of respondents encounter significant problems while
doing business with partners from Kosovo and Metohija
• a bit more than 40% have problems while doing business with
partners from Montenegro
• possible causes for problems in business between these three
regions are listed below, prioritized by their significance:
 payment
to the partners from other regions
transportation
problems caused by traffic police or other institutions of power
state
institutions and partners’ state institutions
criminal
activity connected with transport
problems
caused by inter-regional contracts
the group
of other problems [this group should be self-explanatory]
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