Improving Customs Transit Systems
In the Islamic Countries
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The Association of International Road Transport Operators of the Kyrgyz Republic (AIRTO)
associates 83 road transport operators (with 2,056 vehicles – 2018 data). AIRTO KR is
authorized to issue TIR Carnets to all TIR Carnet holders on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic,
which fully satisfy all the necessary conditions for the TIR Convention, the rules and regulations
of the IRU.
In 2013, real-time SafeTIR was implemented in the Kyrgyz Republic, which automates the
customs operations on TIR and allows to receive the status and validity of each TIR Carnet in
real-time. The SafeTIR was integrated with the Unified Automated Information System (UAIS),
but currently, due to the use of the common Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) IT Transit System,
the SafeTIR data is available only online. The real-time SafeTIR is also used for termination of
TIR operations.
The KCS Unified Automated Information System (UAIS), integrates the preliminary information
from the TIR-EPD the as of August 2014.
Since 2018, China joined the TIR Convention, and the first pilot transport with TIR Carnet was
completed on the route Dalian - Harbin - Manchuria (PRC) - Zabaikalsk - Chita - Ulan-Ude -
Irkutsk - Krasnoyarsk - Kemerovo – Novosibirsk. The Republic of Kyrgyzstan recognizes the
application of TIR in China as an opportunity for goods exported from China to transit through
Kyrgyzstan to Iran, Turkey, and Europe.
In connection with the accession to the TIR Convention, China has intensified work on the
development of cooperation with the EAEU MS in the field of road transport and transit.
4.1.7 Risk management
Risk Management is not applied for CTR. The UAIS has integrated selectivity module that only
assesses the risk for import and export procedure. There are no risk profiles developed for
individual BCP and on a regional level. OGAs are not participating in the creation of risk profiles.
A short-term plan is to establish a risk management system in the EAEU common transit IT
System and UAIS (or new CDPS), to become a backbone of Kyrgyzstan’s integrated risk
management system.
4.1.8 CTR Guarantee Management and Monitoring System
Managing guarantees is an essential part of CTR. A guarantee system ensures that Customs
duties and taxes suspended during Customs procedure are covered in cases where they have to
be paid. The regulation related to customs transit guarantees is in line with the EAEU Agreement