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Customs Regulations of Kaesong Industrial Zone Adopted

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- The customs regulations of the Kaesong Industrial Zone were adopted according to a decision of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The decision dated December 11, Juche 92 (2003) consists of five chapters and 43 articles.
    The regulations will contribute to promoting convenience in taking into and out goods, persons' coming and going and transport service by establishing a strict system and order in the customs service in the zone.
    These regulations are applicable to enterprises (developer included), branches, business offices and offices in the zone carrying goods and mail matters into and out and transport means coming to and going from the zone for the development, management and operation of the zone and production and administration.
    The regulations shall be also applied to south Koreans and overseas compatriots and foreigners coming to the zone from areas of the south side.
    Clarified in the regulations are the principle of customs registration, the principles of customs exemption and payment, presentation of applications for the permit to carry goods into and out, declaration of mail matters and personal belongings, customs inspection and supervisory institutions, inspection method of the goods to be carried into and out, standard customs price and calculation, etc.
    An appendix attached to the regulations specifies the goods not allowed either to bring into the zone or to take them out of it.
    The goods prohibited to carry into the zone include weapons, bullets, explosives and other materials for military use, narcotics, radioactive materials, toxic chemical agents, printed materials that may badly affect public order and good manners and customs of the nation and the listed goods coming from contagious disease-afflicted areas.
    Those goods banned to take out of the zone include weapons, bullets, explosives, materials for military use, lethal weapons, wireless apparatuses and their accessories, poisonous substance, powerful medicines, narcotics, radioactive materials, toxic chemical agents, historical relics, secret documents, printed materials (copies included) and their manuscripts, films, photos, cassettes and video tapes, records, compact disks and other goods which are banned from carrying out under an agreement.