How to import tobacco products from a country outside EU to Romania?

Any company or entrepreneur who wants to import tobacco products from a country outside EU to Romania, raw tobacco or processed tobacco originating from its own import operations in Romania, from own intra-community acquisitions or from intern production, they must be authorized as an importer and have the quality of authorized importer of tobacco products in Romania who produce, convert, own, receive or dispatch freights in a tax warehouse. Romanian Law Firm Pavel Margarit and Associates recommends to contact a lawyer specialized in commercial and tax law in Romania in order to obtain the appropriate authorizations to proceed the activity of importing tobacco from a country outside EU to Romania.

The natural or legal person intending to import excise goods subject to marking by banners or stamps (such as tobacco and tobacco products) must be an authorized importer of tobacco products in Romania. The authorized importer of tobacco products in Romania may carry out this activity only on the basis of the valid import license of tobacco products in Romania issued by the authority provided by the specialized structures within the Romanian Customs Authority. In order to obtain the import license of tobacco products in Romania, a request in this regard has to be submitted at the territorial customs authority, together with the specific documentation: incorporation documents, criminal records of the administrators, the list of excisable products and the quantities estimated to be imported, the NC code of the products, agreements, which is why Romanian Law Firm Pavel Margarit and Associates recommends to contact a lawyer specialized in commercial law and tax law in Romania in order to obtain the appropriate authorizations to proceed the activity of importing tobacco from a country outside EU to Romania.

The raw tobacco or the processed tobacco can be sold to an economic operator in Romania only if it is an authorized importer of tobacco products. Any transport of raw tobacco or processed tobacco on the Romania’s territory carried out by economic operators in Romania must be accompanied by a commercial document containing the economic operator’s authorization number.

The authorized importer of tobacco products in Romania can be any company or entrepreneur, as well as any natural person who can produce, convert, own, receive or dispatch freights in a tax warehouse. If the requirements are not complied with, the penalty that occurs is the exigibility of excisable taxes.

Romanian Law Firm Pavel Margarit and Associates recommends to contact a lawyer specialized in commercial law and tax law in Romania in order to fulfill all the conditions required by Romanian Law for carrying out the activity of importing tobacco from a country outside EU to Romania.

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