Customs officers prevent import of equipment that destroys ozone layer into Tashkent

According to the capital’s customs department, the “Toshkent Tovar” foreign trade customs post controls the import of environmentally hazardous, ozone-depleting hazardous substances and equipment.

According to the current regulations, the import of refrigeration and air conditioning equipment manufactured using ozone-depleting or related substances is prohibited.

Recently, the post discovered attempts to circumvent this restriction during customs inspection of imported equipment.

In particular, it was revealed that imported high-pressure air drying equipment and refrigeration equipment for the beverage bottling line operate on R-22 freon, which is included in the list of ozone-depleting substances.

For this reason, equipment worth a total of 143.5 million soums is currently taken into temporary storage. It is expected that in the future they will be removed from the republic.

On the above fact, a customs inquiry is being carried out.