RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT MULLS SOLUTION TO EXCISE DUTY STAMP SHORTAGE RISK TO IMPORTS
July 1st, 2016
THE RUSSIAN government is considering ways of preventing a potential halt to deliveries of foreign alcohol into Russia, caused by delays in providing sufficient quantities of new-style excise stamps to importers.
The new stamps took effect on July 1 and all alcoholic drinks imports should now carry them.
Delays in talks between the government and a key stamp supplying contractor are believed to be behind the delays.
Valery Filatov, chairman of the Russian Union of Importers of Alcoholic Beverages (SIAP) said: “Problems with obtaining of excise stamps have ...
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