Goods import strategy and customs procedures during the Covid-19 pandemic

The article discusses the importance of customs and the impact it has on EU trade in goods in developing countries. Customs are actually duties, which have to be paid for the goods we import from the third world countries. Through customs and customs procedures Slovenia and the entire European Community protect the internal market and guarantee the transition of the goods, people and capital in economic and commercial activities.
Slovenia has introduced independent customs territory on the 8th of October 1991, when the customs supervision started on the southern border. In fact, it all started a few months earlier, in the night of June 25/26 1991, when »Temeljna ustavna listina« and »Ustavni zakon za izvedbo temeljne ustavne listine o samostojnosti in neodvisnosti Republike Slovenije« has come into force.
Slovenian's entrance into the European Union in 2004 meant also the entrance in customs union.  Besides that, its members do not have to pay any import duties, they use the same customs tariffs and customs rules.  Its main goals are different from those in the past, when the only purpose of Customs was to »earn« as much money as possible to fill country's treasury. Today in 21th century their meaning is a bit different. They want to make the production as competitive as possible, to increase the export and to protect the intellectual property, environment, population's health and public interest.
Customs jobs such as collecting import duties, control of import and export in the country - from the perspective of safety, control of excise duties, collecting excise duties, collecting statistics information etc., are in the Republic of Slovenia done by »Carinska uprava RS«, which is a part of »FURS – Finančna uprava Republike Slovenije«.
Through the basics of the commercial law in logistics it is necessary to study also the systems of customs procedures, because they protect market of the European Union, but what binds Slovenia to it, is an EU membership and the same common interest of stable economy and stable European market. (Murtič, Jankovič, 2018).