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Press releases of the press service of the Customs Service. Notices on the hours and closures of the crossings are published on the home page. Materials may be reproduced in full with reference to the Service.
2026
On 27 October 31 newly recruited inspectors completed a six-week course at the central office. The course covered the Customs Code, the duty bands and regimes, the electronic declaration system, the inspection of vehicles and the…
Since 1 October fuel tankers are cleared at the posts and at the Terminal only on showing their entry in the Gendarmerie's register of tankers. In the first two weeks officers declined to clear 23 tankers that could not show the…
On 16 May at the Suzak post inspectors stopped a livestock lorry carrying nine horses towards Jalal-Abad without veterinary certificates. The driver, citizen T.A., born 1981, resident of Tash-Kömür, stated that he was…
In 2025 the Customs Service transferred 4.31 billion som to the budget of the Zone in customs duties, transit charges and the export duty on antimony concentrate, 6% more than in 2024.
2025
On the public holidays the central office in Talas does not receive visitors. The Terminal, Chu Gate, Talas North Terminal, Nurzhan rail border station and Suzak work round the clock as usual; Kyzyl-Tuu and Dostuk keep the hours…
On 19 October inspectors at the exit gate of the Talas Customs Clearance Terminal checked a lorry leaving the Talas Free Economic Trade Zone for the Zone's market with a declared load of furniture. Behind the furniture they found…
On 12 August officers at the Talas North Terminal crossing stopped two lorries carrying 46 tonnes of ore declared as fluorite and bound for China.
In 2015 X-ray scanners and electronic declarations were introduced at the Talas Customs Clearance Terminal. In ten years more than 350,000 declarations have been lodged there in electronic form.
Representatives of the Customs Service took part in the first meeting of the joint working group on livestock and cotton shipments, held in Tash-Kömür under the memorandum with Uzbekistan. The Uzbek side was represented by…
Under the memorandum on trade and border coordination with Uzbekistan, signed this month at the offices of the Lieutenant Governor in Talas, from 3 March the customs posts at Kyzyl-Tuu and Dostuk open and close at the same hours…
From 1 February every load of ore, concentrate or other mineral leaving the Zone by the northern crossings or the Terminal is weighed and sampled, whatever is written in the declaration. Until now samples were taken selectively.
2024
The Customs Service informs carriers that since the beginning of January the Kazakh posts opposite Chu Gate and Talas North Terminal have been processing lorries more slowly. The Iradi posts are working as normal.
2023
On 23 May deputy director A. Sultanbekov met representatives of freight carriers and customs brokers at the Terminal to discuss the queues at Chu Gate and Talas North Terminal.
2022
Anvar Sultanbekov has been appointed deputy director of the Customs Service responsible for the frontier posts and the Talas Customs Clearance Terminal.
2021
From 17 to 21 May 24 inspectors of the northern posts and the Terminal took a course on recognising ores and mineral concentrates. Classes were held at the central office and in the laboratory of the Sary-Bulak Antimony Works.
2020
In accordance with the decisions of the commission on the quarantine regime headed by the Lieutenant Governor, from 23 March passenger traffic through the crossings is restricted. Freight, fuel and goods for hospitals and…
2019
From 10 June a vehicle X-ray scanner is in service at the Talas North Terminal crossing on the Kazakh frontier. Until now lorries at this crossing were inspected by hand where there was cause.
2018
For the cotton harvest, from 17 September to 30 November inspectors of the central office are sent to reinforce the customs posts at Kyzyl-Tuu and Dostuk.
2017
The Customs Service has summed up its work for 2016. It was the first full year in which every container at the Talas Customs Clearance Terminal passed through the X-ray scanners.
2016
On 14 March the heads of departments and customs posts were introduced to Uson Yakupov, appointed Director of the Customs Service by the Governor.