Customs spokesman speaks of implementing reciprocity: A 20-mune entry from Serbia on Friday

Three days after the Government of Kosovo has removed the tax on products of goods with origin from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Customs in Kosovo have started implementing Albin Kurti's decision on gradual implementation of reciprocity as a principle for relations with Serbia.

For these three days, numerous trucks from Serbia have passed through food products and chemical industries. On the third day without taxes from Serbia to Kosovo, 20 trucks have been spent, accounting for 150 thousand euros.

This has been made known for Online Economy, Kosovo Customs spokesman Adriatic Stavileci. According to Stevilec, compared to the first two days Friday on the third day, 4 imports from Bosnia, worth about 30,000 euros.

Today we have a slightly lower import than yesterday's, we have about 20 loads from Serbia that are worth about 150 thousand euros. While we have also seen from Bosnia the first imports that came from Bosnia after the safeguard clause was lifted, we have seen about 4 imports, which, at an estimated 30,000 euros,”, Stavileci told EO.

According to Stavileci only today, food products have come from Serbia, such as durum grae and not durum, mouse, wheat or sperm flour, as well as chemical washing or cleaning industry, oxygen etc.

While, from Bosnia and Herzegovina mainly are food products, milk, roasted potatoes (chips)

Serbia's “principally has had food industry, food products as well as chemical industries. Also from Serbia, there have been construction materials, while from Bosnia we have without the first import of food products, and it has been the first trucks to come in with milk”, Stavileci said.

According to Stavileci, the previous day there were about 90 mounas that came from Serbia with different products worth about 500 thousand euros.

Until yesterday that was the second day of implementation of the Government's decision to remove Serbia and Bosnia's debt measures, we have made imports from Serbia, specifically there have been about 90 Maunes that have come, until if we speak in monial values, some 500 thousand euros of various products”, he stressed.

While, he points out that a lower import has been observed on the first day, where there were only 16 trucks.

During these three days, Stavileci shows that only one manu has been out of order with documentation.

During the first day, we've had a low import, even though many people may seem to you very much, but for Customs it's a low import, we've only had 16 trucks where one of them hasn't been with a statement that started with translation procedures after.

During these three days in the return procedure, it is still the possibility that that the mauca will declare the Sanitary Certificate on the basis of the demands of the decision and the Constitution of Kosovo”, Stavileci told EO.

Stavileci further says there has been an increase in the number of raw imports. He says that applying the measure for a certain time has led merchants to navigate to other producers.

“Anyway, in the first subject, we have an increase in the number of first-grade imports and the first item has started to be imported again from Serbia, but we have still waited a little bit more, but it seems that the application of the measure for a certain time has guided traders to other producers and we have not without a very large stream of”, he added.

According to him, not the figure is more or less low and is below the monthly average, the daily average we have had import from Serbia.

Compared to the preliminary period when Serbia has had imports of around 450m euros within a year, Stavileci says that if Kosovo consumers have demand for Serbian products, then import will increase.

If we refer to preliminary data which shows that from Serbia we have had about 450m euros import of products within 1 year, then normality expected, but it all depends on the behaviour of Kosovo consumers. If Kosovo consumers have demand for this kind of product, it will normally increase. So it depends on consumption. ”

The incumbent government has voted the removal of a 100 per cent heel to Serbia's products and Bosnia and Herzegovina and its replacement with gradual reciprocity measures with Serbia.