Customs
administration of Ukraine

Mission
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:
- implement
and control over compliance with the legislation of Ukraine on customs;
- protect Ukraine's
economic interests;
- secure implementation of obligations prescribed by
international agreements on customs practice to which Ukraine is a
party;
- assist
the defense of intellectual property rights of people
involved in foreign economic activity, and other legal entities and natural
persons;
- apply, in
accordance with the law, tariff and non-tariff regulatory measures upon
movement of goods through the customs border of Ukraine;
- implement
customs control and customs clearance of goods and vehicles crossing the
customs border of Ukraine,
and improve the means and forms of such implementation;
- control
compliance with the rules of movement of currency values through the customs
border of Ukraine;
-
implement, in cooperation with other authorized state power bodies, the
measures aimed at securing the interest of goods consumers, and at ensuring
that participants in foreign economic relations adhere to the state interests
on the external market;
- create favorable conditions for speeding up the goods turnover and
flow of passengers through the customs border of Ukraine;
- fight
against contraband and violations of customs rules;
- develop
international cooperation in the area of customs practice;
- compile
customs statistics;
- maintain
the Ukrainian Classification of Commodities of Foreign Economic Activity;
- verify
(ascertain the authenticity of) certificates of origin of goods from Ukraine.
Goals
To comply
with its mission the customs administration of Ukraine
has been working towards the following important goals, among others:
-
the simplification and harmonisation of customs procedures,
-
trade supply chain security,
-
the facilitation of international
trade,
-
the enhancement of customs
enforcement and compliance activities,
-
anti-counterfeiting and piracy
initiatives,
-
public-private
partnerships.
Contact
Chairman Mr. Anatoliy Makarenko
appointed on 28 January 2009
Official adress The
State Customs Service of Ukraine
11-g,
Dehtiarivska Str., Kyiv, Ukraine, 04119
Tel:
(044) 247-28-36, 489-02-24, 481-18-81; Fax: (044)
481-18-89, 481-18-38
E-mail: dmsu@customs.gov.ua
inter@customs.gov.ua
Date
of establishment: 1991
General contact point:
Mr. Oleh Ovchinnikov
Director, International Activities
Department
Tel: +380 44 247 2606/247-2706
Fax: +380 44 2472851/489 0212
E-mail: dmsu@customs.gov.ua
inter@customs.gov.ua
............. www.customs.gov.ua
Member
of the following international/regional organizations
WCO, WTO, BSEC, GUAM,
CIS
International
Conventions signed by Ukraine
relating to customs matters
WCO Conventions
- Convention establishing a Customs Co-operation
Council
- Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description
and Coding System
- Convention on Temporary Admission (Istanbul
Convention)
- International Convention on the simplification and
harmonization of Customs procedures (Kyoto Convention) as amended
- International Convention on mutual administrative
assistance for the prevention, investigation and repression of Customs offences
(Nairobi Convention)
- Customs Convention on Containers
UNECE Transport
Agreements and Conventions
- Customs Convention on the International Transport of
Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention)
- International Convention on the Harmonization of
Frontier Controls of Goods
- Agreement on the International Carriage of
Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be used for such Carriage
(ATP)
General information
Official
name
Ukraine
Capital Kyiv
Official
language
Ukrainian
Area 603.700 sq km
Population 46.263.079
Currency Hryvnia
National
Day 24
August