On March 17, 2014 with the assistance of Asia and Pacific collaboration Center the meeting in the North-West Customs Administration with the delegation of representatives of Customs departments of Zhejiang province (Hangzhou, Ningbo), People's Republic of China, headed by  the chief of the Secretariat of the People's government of Zhejiang province,

Mr. Sun Houjun was held. During negotiations Ms. Anna Vladimirovna Korosteleva, the deputy head of the North-West operational customs, had acquainted the Chinese colleagues with the structure of customs authorities of Russia and Saint-Petersburg, as well as with the legal support of customs activity in Russia. In turn, the head of the Chinese delegation spoke about the structure of the People’s Republic of China customs, the customs legislation of the People’s Republic of China, policy of full transition to the system of electronic customs declaring. The parties paid much attention to discussion of the issue of identification and suppression of smuggling, and interaction of Russia and China in the field of prevention of smuggling import of goods from the sea ports of Zhejiang province to Russia / Saint-Petersburg.

The major suppliers of goods to Russia are such Chinese provinces as Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong, Beijing city. According to Mr. S.A. Naryshkin, the deputy head of Department for combating with economic customs offenses NWCA, by 2013, about 18%  of imported goods through the Baltic customs were the goods indicated as "made in China", that made more than 2 million tons (net weight) with the total cost more than 10 billion U.S. dollars. At the same time NWCA recorded the facts of administrative offenses in shipments from the People's Republic of China (about 450 cases), generally connected with unreliable provision of information on the qualitative and quantitative composition of the goods. The Chinese side spoke about the system of random inspection and examination of the goods exported to Russia (about 10% of goods are inspected), on the basis of a control system of risks, analytics, «trust to the company on a scale ABCD».

At the result of the meeting the sides agreed on continuation of cooperation, exchange of information and further cooperation, including exchange of information within the framework of the Working Group, established by the Federal Customs Service of Russia and the State Customs Committee of the Chinese People's Republic.