Article 253. Location of declaration

A customs declaration can be filed with any customs authority competent to accept a customs declaration.

To enforce control over compliance with customs legislation, the State customs committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall determine that certain categories of goods and (or) vehicles should be declared only in certain customs authorities depending on:

need to use specialized equipment and (or) special knowledge for customs clearance of cultural objects, weapons, military equipment and ammunition, radioactive materials;

type of transport used for international transport of goods (road, air, rail, river, pipelines and power lines);

certain types of goods that have a record of repeated cases of violation of customs legislation or are subject to measures of economic policy;

goods that contain objects of intellectual property.

Vehicles carrying goods shall be declared simultaneously with the goods.

Empty vehicles and vehicles carrying passengers shall be declared when crossing the customs border.

Rivercrafts and aircrafts shall be declared at a river port or airport of arrival at the customs territory or a river port or airport of departure from the customs territory.