Economic sciences  / 2. Foreign trade activities

Student Grishchenko Andrii Oleksiiovych

National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev polytechnical institute"

Creation and functioning of free economic zones in Ukraine

Territorial formations are one of qualitatively new forms of nationalisation of manufacture in which its progressive direction of development by concentration is shown, specialisations, a manufacture combination. Such character of their development provides considerable economic benefit thanks to the integrated approach factor. Placing of industrial objects on one or in joint territory allows to use effectively not only uniform power sources, water, mineral, natural resources, but also capacities of industrial and non-productive infrastructures.

Territorial formations act in various forms of complexes: 1) industrial-territorial; 2) agrarian-industrial; 3) the building; 4) transport and their branch versions. Industrially-territorial complexes can include machine-building, chemical, timber industry and it is a lot of others. As agrarian and industrial complexes consist from grain, flax-growing that other

Free economic zones (FEZ) - the limited territories, cities, sea and aviation ports where for national and foreign businessmen special preferential economic conditions which assist performance foreign trade operate, общеэкономических, social, scientific and technical and scientifically-technological problems.

Principles of formation FEZ: 1) following on achievement of an effective mode of managing of separate subjects at positive effect as a whole; 2) flexibility and dynamism of management FEZ; 3) multi-variant approach of approaches, forms and models FEZ; 4) perspectivity of development; 5) conformity of priority directions of development FEZ to priority directions of development of regions and the state; 6) the account of requirements of national safety.

Political and economic stability, invariance of legislative base, cheapness of a labour, presence of natural resources and extremely capacious commodity market, and also other initial preconditions of China assisted creation here special zones of different types. Through them in the country 18 % of the foreign trade turnover are carried out almost, and volumes of production made in their territory represent in its national a product about 15 %.

Special (free) economic zones share on separate types depending on geography of an arrangement, character of object of zoning, scales and the importance of solved problems, a functional orientation.

So, depending on a site concerning frontiers, CARRIED are distributed on internal (the countries located in internal areas) and external.

According to character of interaction with economy of the accepting state it is necessary to distinguish zones integration (in the zone mechanism the principle of close interaction with subjects of business outside the limits of a zone is put in pawn) and the zone functions in spacious, that is locked concerning economic system and opened for external relations. Zones of such type is an antipode integration, are created mainly for maximisation external inflow commodity and financial resources, are localised in small territory after the size and in the course of activity is minimum co-operate with delivery of economic space of the accepting state, their mechanism is most approached to conditions and world market laws, allows to reduce dependence degree FEZ from позазонального economic space and an inertial control system It is provided both administrative and economic measures the Last should prevail, as have internal stimulus of self-development and improvement and can be extended further for zone borders

In territory of Ukraine special (free) economic zones of different functional types can be created: free customs areas and ports, export, transit zones, customs warehouses, technological parks, technopolises, complex industrial zones, tourist - recreational, to fear, bank etc.

The status and territory of a special (free) economic zone, and also term on which it is created, defined by the Supreme Rada of Ukraine by acceptance of the separate law for each special (free) economic zone.

By the law it is defined concepts of "a special (free) economic zone" as parts of territory of Ukraine on which it is established and the special legal regime of economic activities, and an order of application of the corresponding current legislation of Ukraine operates. The generalised concept "FEZ" is added by the list of zones of different types: customs, complex industrial, insurance, bank. Was legislative organizational questions, and including - concerning quantity and character of promotional documents, a control system, the state guarantees to investors and other norms which are applied at creation and functioning FEZ are solved. The law puts the purpose of attraction of foreign investments, activization of the general with foreign investors of enterprise activity, introduction of new technologies and market methods of managing, improvement of use of all kinds of resources.

Optimum to connect supervising and stimulating role of the state in economy it is possible through introduction of industrial parks which will be organised not for territorial, and by a functional principle and regarding realisation of investment projects will operate similarly to technoparks. The activity purpose should become modernisation existing and creation of new manufactures. Grantings of privileges not to territories, and under realisation of concrete projects are stimulating mechanism within the limits of industrial parks. It will make activity industry park at the same time effective and transparent and accessible to the state control and independent to audit at any stage.

If to analyse all theses set forth above concerning existence FEZ, it is possible to tell, that FEZ in their present kind have serious system lacks. But it means, that these zones should to be forbidden, and to improve as the approved world practice the tool of selective stimulation of business and economic activity.

The literature:

1.     The law of Ukraine "About special economic zones and a special mode of investment activity: the Law of Ukraine from 24.12 1998//the Voice of Ukraine, 1999, on January, 19th.

2.     Free economic zones / For trans. I.U. Sivachenko. - К: Dakor; the Aleut., 2001. - 312-327 p.

3.     Lisova O.V. Law of a basis of creation and functioning of free economic zones in Ukraine // Business, an economy, the law. - 2002, № 6.-.16-19.