Customs posted 23m euros less in the first three months of 2020

Kosovo Customs until March 2019 managed to collect 295m euros, while the same period in 2020, Dogana issued 23m euros less. The reason for this, it's coming out to be the COVID-19 pandemic. Customs spokesman Adriatic Stavileci, in an interview for Online Economy, has said this decline is [...]
Customs spokesman Adriatic Stavileci, in an interview for Online Economy, has said this decline is immediate, saying that with the normalisation of the situation, the economy will also function.
Inflows not only in terms of the impact of pandemic, which is normally one of the factors, but also due to the reduction of the price of oil in international stock exchanges has directly affected inflows. I want to tell you that if last year we have 319 million euros, as of today we have 295 million, so there's a drop of about 20 million less and if it translates into percentages, that's 5-7 percent”.
So this decline should only be immediate because we expect the normalisation of the situation and the economy to work, and when the economy works, we believe we will return to normal income parameters”, he says.
“I believe that one or two months can be returned and exceeded last year in terms of a collection. But this remains to be seen because this is just a prediction.
Low from the pandemic had online orders. In the first two weeks, the Pandemia Stevilec had a 30 - percent decline, while this decline went up to 50 percent.
The Internet orders, except that there's a lower order due to the pandemic that started in China, and that's automatically reflected in lowering orders. In the first two weeks, I reflect 30 percent on the decline, while during the continuation of the pandemic, this increased to 50 percent the number of orders”.
Not only in Kosovo that online orders are being delayed because they are working at shorter hours and without people, and therefore we come to different delays”, he says.
Stavileci has said that all those who complete all the documentation can withdraw their purchases.












