![]() In essence, GOST certificates, when they are of a mandatory type, are essential documents for customs clearance. We are going to focus, in general, on the GOST R certificate, but the truth is that the system is very similar in every country that has adopted it. When we simply talk about a GOST certificate in general, then we refer to GOST R, which is a series of standards that apply to Russia as a whole. After the events of the early 1990s, each of the former Soviet countries then defined their own standards, giving rise, for example, to GOST K for Kazakhstan and GOST B for Belarus. ![]() Since their introduction almost a century ago, GOST certificates have established the technical safety and quality requirements necessary to authorize a product for sale, first in the USSR, and then in Russia and most of the former Soviet countries. ![]() The acronym GOST comes from Государственный Стандарт (Gosudarstvenny Standart), which means “state standard”.
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