Customs duties slow down assistance to refugees from Ukraine
Kyiv, August 11 (Navigator, Yuri Kovalchuk) – Residents of Germany, Spain and Italy have collected tons of humanitarian aid for internally displaced persons, but Russian laws on customs duties are slowing down the arrival of humanitarian aid from European countries. This problem was reported by its chairman, Senator Nikolai Ryzhkov, at a meeting of the Federation Council of the Committee for Public Support of Residents of South-Eastern Ukraine, reports Parliamentary Gazette.
According to the law, large consignments of cargo from abroad are subject to import customs duties.
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“But why do people who want to help from the bottom of their hearts, collected this humanitarian cargo, should also pay out of their own pockets so that it is transferred to refugees?” - Nikolai Ryzhkov was perplexed.
According to him, he contacted many authorities, but the problem remained.
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