The State Customs Service and Russia’s Federal Customs Service have reached agreement on exchange of preliminary information about goods and means of transport crossing the Ukrainian-Russian customs border.

The press service of the State Customs Service announced this in a statement.

The State Customs Service’s Chairman Valerii Khoroshkovskyi and the Federal Customs Service’s head Andrei Belyaninov signed the relevant protocol on November 11.

The protocol provides for real-time exchange of information that will enable the two customs services to compare data about consignments of crossing the Ukrainian-Russian border.

In particular, the two customs services will exchange information about quantities of goods, their classification codes, and registration of the actual movement of goods and transport means outside the customs borders of the two countries.

Moreover, the two agencies will exchange information about arrival of goods and transport means as well as about the start of procedures for delivery of goods and transport means.

Exchange of such information will enable the customs services to monitor goods and transport means and prevent substitution of documents about manufacturers of goods, use of forged documents for customs registration, and provision of false information about the quantities, weights, and prices of goods at customs checkpoints.

Khoroshkovskyi said that implementation of the agreement on exchange of preliminary information would facilitate a systematic approach to preventing violation of the customs legislations of the two countries because Russia is one of Ukraine’s largest trading partners.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the State Customs Service and Russia’s Federal Customs Service recently called for development of their cooperation in combating the smuggling of narcotics across the Ukrainian-Russian customs border.