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RA Customs State Administration started its customs supervisions. According to the press service of the administration the supervisions already gave the necessary results. Elmen Carukyan, the head of the second department of the Customs administration said that 40 cases were recorded within those several days.

The cases were found not only in frontier customs agencies, but also in the capital, in trade field during customs supervision. So, customs supervisions were organized in “Petak”, “Surmalu”, and “Haycop” trade houses.
In the result a big amount of food stuff, especially caviar, legumes, sweets: particularly chocolate, as well as oil were found. According to the head of the department some part of the goods were from Turkey without any certificates, some stuff was without any proper documents, and the others did not have Armenian marks.

But according to the laws - “Customer Right Protection” and “About Product Security”, which, by the way, were applied from July; the merchandise imported into Armenia for sale must have marks with Armenian language.

According to Elmen Carukyan, the customs administration will continue carrying out the supervision and warns all the importers to escape falsifications.