The Operations and Investigation Department of the Southern Territorial Main Customs Office of Azerbaijan has seized 281 kilograms and 435 grams of heroin smuggled from Iran and bound to Europe, the Customs Committee said on 2 June.

A Georgian citizen suspected of being infected with coronavirus crossed Azerbaijan’s Astara customs checkpoint at 06:50 (GMT+4) on February 25 and was checked with portable thermometers, Trend reports on Feb. 27 referring to the Azerbaijani State Customs Committee.

The State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan (SCC) will introduce an electronic queue system at customs checkpoints, Deputy Chairman of SCC Ismayil Huseynov said at 9th International Caspian Energy Forum Baku – 2019 exhibition in Baku, Trend reports.

The great achievements made in the field of customs in Azerbaijan are a result of the reforms carried out in the country.

The reforms carried out by President Ilham Aliyev in the customs sphere serve to simplify the foreign trade process, chairman of Azerbaijan’s State Customs Committee Safar Mehdiyev said at the “Foreign Trade Participants Forum: Application of Green Corridor Pass System” on December 24.

Duty-free products and services worth $3.9 billion were imported by Azerbaijan in 2017, First Deputy Chairman of the State Customs Committee Safar Mehdiyev said.

Azerbaijan’s State Customs Committee transferred about 2.38 billion manats to the state budget in January- November 2017 that is by 15.5 percent more than in the same period of 2016, reads the Committee’s report.

The State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan has completely fulfilled the forecast on revenues to the state budget of Azerbaijan for 2017.