Diversification of strategic programs for the transformation of customs affairs in the ukraine: a key to implementation or a destructive perspective

Abstract

Customs activity is the object of social interest in the Ukraine. Stakeholders and those who are interested in discussing of ratings, the formation of the image of the customs support the level of these interests. In the article the conceptual questions of implementation and fulfilment of andestandings on customs affairsof the Association Agreement with the European Union, the state of their fulfilment, as well as the main emphasis of the presented strategies of reforming the state customs affairsare considered. The conclusions of the monitoring of the fulfilment of the Association Agreement, the expert examinations of public organizations, and data from international trade statistics provided the grounds come to the conclusions that the search for an optimal strategy is not a period of time, but only a professional approach, moderation of goals, synergy of desire and the participation of state institutions in satisfaction of public expectations. The paper concludes that an in-depth analysis of the causes and consequences of overcoming the accumulated uncertainties and inconsistencies in the development of the state customs affairs, which require immediate intervention, is possible if the persons who have experience and professional competence in customs affairs, professional competence and a high level of social and political culture will be involved in whole chain of stakeholders of national customs affairs. This will solve the problems faced by the world’s customs administrations and Ukraine respectively, propose the goals and identify the ways to achieve them in the shortest possible time with minimal resource capacities and costs, and effective means of providing them. Purposely well-founded presentation of materials in the article, dialectical, systematic, deductive methods of research were used, which gave a more complete understanding of the institutional processes taking place in the customs sphere.