Uzbekistan’s Customs Committee resumed mobile-phone clearance at Tashkent airport on 11 November after a suspension it blamed on a lack of specialist IMEI-verification capacity, drawing public criticism before the halt was lifted the same day.
Uzbekistan has agreed a zero customs tariff on mobile phone imports as part of WTO accession talks, a move that could cut handset prices by 5% but cost the state budget up to 400 billion soums a year.
