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