Экономические науки/15.Государственное регулирование экономики

Yerysh L. A., Matviychuk A. V.

Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named after M. Tugan-Baranovsky

Peculiarities of customs rules in Ukraine

The State Customs Service of Ukraine (SCSU) is a specially authorized central body of executive power in the area of customs practice that was created in 1991 with the mission to direct, co-ordinate, and control the activities of customs authorities, specialized customs institutions and organizations in implementing the laws of Ukraine on customs practice.

Ukrainian Customs is oriented towards the efficient fulfilment of the following basic tasks (table 1).

Table 1. Basik tasks of Ukrainian Customs

The passing of persons, vehicles, cargoes and other property through the frontier of Ukraine is carried out after realization of the boundary, customs control, and in the appropriate cases also sanitary, ecological, veterinary, fitosanitary control, the control of export from territory of Ukraine of cultural values, the others state kinds of the control. Customs registration may be completed only after the termination (ending) of the specified kinds of the control. The control of persons, vehicles, cargoes and other property, which go through frontier, at the entrance to Ukraine, begins with the boundary control and comes to an end the customs control, at departure Ukraine begins the customs control and comes to an end with the boundary control.

Prohibited to import into Ukraine:

a) Means of transportation that are 5 or more years old for permanent use on the territory of Ukraine, for selling or breaking into parts, except for cases mentioned above;

b) Strong, poisonous, radioactive, explosive substances, other objects that can harm the population and animals or contaminate the environment;

c) Printed materials, cliche, films, negatives, photos, movies, videos, computer disks, scripts, records and other audio recordings, drawings, and other printed materials that contain propaganda of war, racism, genocide etc;

d) Objects (goods) that are prohibited to import by the Ukrainian legislature;

e) Objects (goods) that are imported against the rules of industrial or intellectual property;

f) Food products without the relevant certificate.

Prohibited to export from Ukraine:

a) Objects (goods) which require state warrant, except for personal belongings;

b) Precious metals, stones and their produce, cultural valuables with a purpose of sale;

c) Strong, poisonous, radioactive, explosive substances, other objects that can harm the population and animals or contaminate the environment;

d) Objects (goods) that require veterinary, ecological, sanitary or phitosanitary testing are allowed only after passing such testing at the correspondent station.

Objects prohibited to transit through the customs territory of Ukraine:

a) Arms and ammunition of all types, military equipment;

b) Flying devices, their parts and equipment;

c) Machines and presses used to produce arms and ammunition of all types, flying devices and their parts;

d) Narcotic substances;

e) Radioactive objects and substances;

f) Strong, poisonous, radioactive, explosive substances, other objects that can harm the population and animals or contaminate the environment;

g) Objects (goods) that are prohibited to import into Ukraine by the Ukrainian legislature.