“Many Mongolian citizens complained to the Border Protection Authority that the Chinese border points’ inspectors take many taxes from Mongolian nationals and they don’t give any receipts or documents for the taxes paid,” O. Ochirjav, Director of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Moninfo, Tuesday.

“In particular smaller border crossing inspectors take many taxes and don’t explain for what. For example every Mongolian passenger pays 5 Yuan, 1500 Yuan per jeep and 1200 Yuan per car to cross the border.”

“The Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the request of the Border Protection Authority put a proposal to examine this problem to Chinese Foreign Affairs in last week. The Chinese side has received our proposal and bilateral groups will examine the border points.”

Mongolia, which still relies on China for nearly 90 percent of its imports and a large amount of its exports, was found to have immense border problems relating to trade, a World Bank report said in September.

“The number of days required for imports and exports far outstripped the Asia region (average 25.9 days for imports and 23.9 for exports) and OECD countries (12.2 days for imports and 10.5 for exports). The cost to export, at US$3,007 per container, also far exceeded the regional average (US$808) and the OECD average (US$811),” the report said.

Yet the actual start date for inspections has yet to be decided upon by the two nations. Officials at the Chinese Embassy in Ulaanbaatar were not immediately available for comment.