Direct customs trade between Armenia and Turkey without re-declaration becomes possible: Rubinyan Good news for businesses. Ruben Rubinyan, Vice Speaker of the National Assembly, wrote about this on his Facebook page.

“As part of the Armenia-Turkey normalization process, thanks to a new regulation introduced in Turkey, it will now be possible to designate ‘Armenia/Turkey’ as the final destination or point of origin for goods shipped from Armenia to any third country and then to Turkey, or from Turkey to Armenia via the same route.
 
This means that direct trade between Armenia and Turkey in customs terms, without re-declaration, has become possible. We continue working toward the opening of the border, including the Gyumri-Kars railway,” he wrote.
 
It should be recalled that yesterday, during a campaign event in Yerevan’s Shengavit administrative district, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan approached Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during a live broadcast and whispered something in his ear. Later, Pashinyan clarified that the issue concerned changes in the documentation procedures for exports of goods from Turkey to Armenia.
 
According to him, under Turkish legislative regulations, Armenia had not been included in the list of countries, which resulted in goods first being documented as exports to a third country and only then re-exported to Armenia.
 
“There are many Turkish-made goods in Armenia, meaning they were taken to another country, documented there, and only then brought here. Now they are changing the procedure so that Armenia can be indicated directly as the destination country, not physically, but in terms of shipping documentation,” Pashinyan explained.