Azerbaijan has no intentions to join the Customs Union
Azerbaijan has no intentions to join the Customs Union,” head of the Azeri State Customs Committee told Customs Cooperation Minister of the Eurasian Economic Commission Vladimir Goshin at the meeting held within the 119/120thsessions of the Customs Cooperation Council in Brussels on 30 June 2012.
Goshin informed the Azeri delegation of the Customs Union and corresponding legislation. The Azeri side made public its decision not to join this organization and application of the new Customs Code in the country, the press release of the Azeri State Customs Committee reads.
The Customs Union between Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia came into existence on January 1, 2010. Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia removed all customs borders between each other after July 2011.
