The Verkhovna Rada on Wednesday adopted law No. 7737 that brings the Customs Tariff of Ukraine in line with the requirements of the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System in the 2022 version.
According to information on the website of the parliament, 289 MPs voted “for” with the required minimum of 226 votes.
The head of the Rada committee on the fuel and energy complex, Andriy Herus, proposed exempting from customs duties the import of equipment by companies engaged in the transportation, production and distribution of gas and electricity as humanitarian aid, but was not supported.
Hanna Kolesnyk, who represented the position of the committee, pointed out that the list of goods proposed by Herus is too broad and needs to be revised, that exemption from import duties is provided by the Customs Code and does not relate to the regulation of the Customs Tariff, while the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economy are against supporting this proposal.
As the Ministry of Economy explained earlier, the current Customs Tariff of Ukraine is based on the international system of the 2017 version, while most countries of the world (China, the USA, the EU, Turkey, Switzerland) have already switched to the 2022 version. In this regard, there are a number of complications associated with differences in commodity codes in the customs clearance of imported products or when comparing the customs statistics of Ukraine and trading partners.
The ministry clarified that the law introduces more than 350 changes to commodity codes, mainly in relation to agricultural, chemical, forestry goods, textiles, non-ferrous metals, engineering, transport, etc.
It was emphasized that the new customs tariff does not provide for changes in the rates of import duty on goods.
