D.Ganbold: “Chinese side have increased customs fees for three Mongolian and two Russian border checkpoint”

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ At a press conference on December 5, head of the Border Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs D.Ganbold stated that the Chinese side has not made any official notification about the increase in customs fees at the Gashuunsukhait, Bichigt and Shiveekhuren border checkpoints. “Designation of customs fees is entirely a country’s internal matter. Therefore, it is not necessary for the given country to officially notify thereon the other sides. The increase in customs fees does not applies only to the checkpoint on the China-Mongolia borders. According to the decision of the Chinese side from November 4, 2016 on increasing the customs fees were taken towards three border checkpoints from Mongolia and two checkpoints from Russia. The customs fees per ton of coal has been increased from CNY 5.2 to 8.0 and the fee for a ton of copper concentrate, value of which exceeds CNY 10,000, to 0.2 percent. Mongolian goods enter China through 46 checkpoints. Gashuusukhait has 12 corridors on Mongolian side of the border, one of which allows special courtesy to Oyu Tolgoi LLC. This corridor transmits all productions of Oyu Tolgoi’s name. Gashuunsukhait has eight corridors on Chinese side of the border. Huge congestions and long queue might be caused by this difference”, he said in the statement.