ATA Carnets
Would you like to win new customers and markets abroad?
In that case, it is essential the samples of your products temporarily to take abroad, for presentation to your potential customers or exhibition at trade fairs and exhibitions. Here you need a quick and easy crossing of state borders without paying customs duties or giving special guarantees - which ATA Carnet enables.
What is ATA Carnet?
ATA Carnet is a simple international customs document that enables temporary import to the most important groups of commodities traded in the world. With the ATA Carnet the goods is circulating without customs clearance for a period of one year in case when at the customs territory of a country that has adopted the Convention on temporary import without completing the national customs documents, paying customs duty or deposit, which is a regular procedure for the temporary export or imports. In the world, ATA Carnet is a synonymous for the passport for the goods. ATA is an abbreviation. It is a combination of initial letters of the French words "Admission Temporaire" and the English words "Temporary Admission", which means temporary import.
What are the advantages of ATA Carnets?
- Simplification of customs procedures using a single document for all customs transactions (temporary export, transit, temporary import, re-export and re-import).
– Paying customs duties and other levies, taxes or deposit, usually for temporary imports in a country becomes unnecessary.
- The validity of ATA Carnets up to one year enables their multiple use for the temporary admission in one or more member states of the ATA system with the same goods.
- The ATA Carnet for the customs means less administration and security that import duties will be charged, if there is no re-export.
How to get ATA Carnet?
Carnets are issued exclusively by the Chamber of Economy of Montenegro, members of the ATA international guarantee chain. Web site (www.iccwbo.org ) is a window to the world of ATA Carnets. With the click on the icon ATA Carnet you will receive information about the organization issuing the ATA Carnet in each Member State of the ATA chain.
E-mail address, mail address, telephone and fax-all of these data can be found on the ICC web site, plus links to web pages for particular country. National chamber of each country provides information where and how one can get the ATA Carnet. With a moderate cost and a minimum of formalities, ATA Carnets are issued by the Chamber of Economy of Montenegro.
Novaka Miloševa 29/II
81 000 Podgorica
Tel /fax. 020 / 230-422 or 230-545.
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Contact person: Miljan Šestović
Srdja Vujošević
* Note: Rapidity with which the ATA Carnets are obtained depends solely on the applicant, so it is recommended that the procedure for obtaining ATA Carnets starts no later than 3 days prior to travel.





















