03.09.2026 Regulation #EAEU #Russia #Import #Duties

Russia's customs service and EEC update declaration and duty-exemption rules

Russia's Federal Customs Service (FCS) and the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) have rolled out three separate but related changes to customs administration, effective between September 2026 and April 2027. Together they touch importers of industrial equipment, companies claiming narrow duty exemptions, and providers of electronic passenger-declaration services.

More time to complete multi-stage equipment imports

FCS Order No. 610 of July 6, 2026 extends the maximum period for filing a customs declaration for the last component of a complete or finished good — from six to ten years from the date the declaration for the first component was registered (alta.ru). The change matters for companies importing large equipment in stages, where separate shipments of parts and units are only declared as a single item once the final component arrives. Long industrial projects — building production lines, for instance — previously risked missing the six-year window; the extra four years gives declarants and customs brokers more room to absorb delivery or engineering delays. The rule takes effect on September 14, 2026.

Fewer administrative steps for certain duty exemptions

EEC Council Decision No. 80 of July 9, 2026 amends paragraph 15 of the Procedure for applying customs duty exemptions, approved by Customs Union Commission Decision No. 728 of July 15, 2011. It concerns goods not named in that Procedure but exempted from import duty under paragraph 7 of Customs Union Commission Decision No. 130 of November 27, 2009: for these goods, businesses will no longer need to have a separate additional procedure for applying the exemption defined before they can use it (alta.ru). In effect, the Commission removed an intermediate administrative step, so traders claiming such exemptions no longer have to wait for a bespoke mechanism to be drafted for their goods category. The decision applies from September 9, 2026.

Revised format for electronic passenger declarations

EEC Collegium Decision No. 101 of August 11, 2026 changes the structure and format of the electronic passenger customs declaration, amending Collegium Decision No. 63 of May 12, 2020. The update covers the declaration's data-field composition and three tables: No. 7 ("General simple data types"), No. 9 ("Applied simple data types of the 'Customs administration' subject area") and No. 10 ("Description of filling in individual fields") (alta.ru). This is a technical update for operators of electronic declaration systems and express-cargo services through which individuals file passenger declarations — they will need to adapt their software interfaces to the new field composition. It comes into force later than the other two changes — on April 1, 2027.

Three dates to put on the calendar

September 14, 2026 — the new ten-year deadline for declaring the last component of multi-part goods (FCS Order No. 610).
September 9, 2026 — the simplified duty-exemption procedure under paragraph 15 (EEC Council Decision No. 80).
April 1, 2027 — the revised structure and format of the electronic passenger declaration (EEC Collegium Decision No. 101).

Companies running long-term deliveries of multi-component equipment should already check their declaration timelines against the new limit, while developers of electronic declaration software have until April 2027 to update their formats.

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