New Customs Service to be launched on Dec 8

"From December 8, we will begin to work at full throttle! Today, December 4, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decided to launch the new State Customs Service. This enables the newly created customs service and its regional bodies to begin full-fledged work," the Customs Service reports on Facebook.

Starting from December 8, the State Customs Service will receive the authority of the State Fiscal Service to implement the state customs policy, state policy in the field of combating offenses when applying legislation on state customs affairs.

As of November 15, 2019, all regional departments of the new State Customs Service of Ukraine were registered.

As Ukrinform reported, the Cabinet of Ministers on December 18, 2018 decided to create the State Tax Service and the State Customs Service by reorganizing the State Fiscal Service. On March 6, 2019, the government approved regulations on these two services. First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Maxim Nefyodov won the competition for the post of head of the State Customs Service. On July 5, 2019, the Cabinet of Ministers appointed Nefyodov as head of the State Customs Service.

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