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The State Customs Service of 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:
- 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.
Contacts:
Dehtiarivska Str., 11-g,
04119
Kievska oblast
38(044) 247-28-36, 489-02-24, 481-18-81
38(044) 481-18-89
Also listed in:
 Government
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