The countries plan to increase turnover in goods

Ministry of revenue and duties of Ukraine and State Customs Committee of Belarus will create a unified system of information exchange. This was decided at the meeting of the working group on updating rules of information exchange between Ukraine and Belarus, which took place on February 5-6 in Minsk, the press service of Minrevenue says.

In the system the sides will exchange preliminary information about goods and vehicles crossing the Ukrainian-Belarusian border to facilitate further growth of trade turnover between Ukraine and Belarus.

According to the experts of Minrevenue, the introduction of a unified system of information exchange especially will reduce the number of illegal movements. The availability of timely information from the Belarusian colleagues will allow more efficient use of system risk analysis. This, in turn, shall not only simplify customs procedures and reduce the time for their implementation, but also strengthen the economic security of the country.

Such data exchanges are carried out by the customs authorities of Ukraine, Russia, Moldova and Poland.

Let’s recall that international technical assistance project "Support to the creation of an electronic system of prior exchange of information between customs services of Belarus and Ukraine (PRINEX) is implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) under funding from European Union. Implementation of this project will be provided by the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Belarus and the Ministry of revenue and duties of Ukraine under the Flagship Initiative "Integrated Border Management" of EU program «Eastern Partnership».