‘PayPal’ certainly wants to come to Serbia but for its business dealing in our country there are still numerous obstacles. One of the biggest is low limit for customs clearance of goods from abroad which is EUR 20 only. Due to that bought goods are significantly more expensive.
Serbia is also in the list of the countries. While some think that Serbia has been listed by mistake and others see in that serious intention by the company to work in Serbia, too, it seems that far serious problems are domestic regulations and administration.
‘The ‘PayPal’ certainly wants to come to Serbia, but when that is going to happen it is not possible to say.
We are making efforts to secure all conditions for the company to work here as well but there is a series of problems especially the low limit for customs clearance of imported goods of EUR 20 which we introduced for protection of domestic textile industry’, Jasna Matic, State Secretary for the Information Society says for ‘Blic’.
Matic says that eventual increasing of the limit is in the competence of the Ministry of Finance. Zoran Torbica of the Center for Internet development says that a meeting was held in June at the Ministry of Finance when a proposal for improvement of regulations crucial for e-trade was made.
He however says that the Government unfortunately does not have understanding for change of the regulations that would make trading via the Internet easier.
Source blic.rs
