Sarpi, 10 pm. No HS codes on the invoice
A truck from Turkey to Russia, loaded with many different goods. Georgian customs at Sarpi will not let it through: the invoice has no HS codes.
It is 10 pm and the Turkish side has closed for the night, so a corrected document will not arrive before morning. The truck is sent back to the queue, which means at least 2 days lost.
The owner of the company personally went through the Turkish e-invoice (e-fatura) and identified the HS code for every item that same night. Customs accepted the documents.
The truck did not go back to the queue and crossed the border. The client saved at least 2 days.
That is why we check the documents on every trip twice: before loading in Turkey and again in Batumi, after Sarpi. Mistakes in Turkish paperwork are common, and it is better that we find them than customs.
