Customs Office lowers import limits for inhabitants of border regions

The Central Customs Office (GUC) announced yesterday that, as of the beginning of 2002, new limitations will be introduced on the transfer of goods for residents of border areas. Persons residing near Poland's borders will be able to import personal goods with a value of no more than euro 80 when returning from neighboring countries. The limit for other travelers is euro 175. However, Jolanta Sokolowska, deputy director of the Tax Assignment Department of the GUC, said that if residents of border areas travel farther than the cross-border area of the neighboring country, then like other travelers they will be able to import one liter of spirits, two liters of wine, five liters of beer and ten packs of cigarettes, as is the current law. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 7) P.W.