Customs Rules in Ukraine
Prohibited import
Prohibited export
Prohibited to transit
Audio and video materials
Luggage
Animals
Veterinary Control
Transportation of animals and birds
Plants Quarantine
Transportation of plants
Export and import of Ukrainian and foreign currency
Import (Ukrainian/Foreign currency, payment cards,
bank documents)
Export (Ukrainian/Foreign currency, payment cards,
bank documents)
Prohibited to import into Ukraine:
Means of transportation that are 5 or more years old for permanent
use on the territory of Ukraine, for selling or breaking into parts,
except for cases mentioned above;
Strong, poisonous, radioactive, explosive substances, other objects
that can harm the population and animals or contaminate the environment;
Printed materials, cliche, films, negatives, photos, movies, videos,
computer disks, scripts, records and other audio recordings, drawings,
and other printed materials that contain propaganda of war, racism,
genocide etc;
Objects (goods) that are prohibited to import by the Ukrainian legislature;
Objects (goods) that are imported against the rules of industrial
or intellectual property;
Food products without the relevant certificate.
Prohibited to export from Ukraine:
Objects (goods) which require state warrant, except for personal
belongings;
Precious metals, stones and their produce, cultural valuables with
a purpose of sale;
Strong, poisonous, radioactive, explosive substances, other objects
that can harm the population and animals or contaminate the environment;
Objects (goods) that require veterinary, ecological, sanitary or
phitosanitary testing are allowed only after passing such testing
at the correspondent station.
Objects prohibited to transit through the customs
territory of Ukraine:
Arms and ammunition of all types, military equipment;
Flying devices, their parts and equipment;
Machines and presses used to produce arms and ammunition of all
types, flying devices and their parts;
Narcotic substances;
Radioactive objects and substances;
Strong, poisonous, radioactive, explosive substances, other objects
that can harm the population and animals or contaminate the environment;
Objects (goods) that are prohibited to import into Ukraine by the
Ukrainian legislature.
Audio and video materials.
The transportation of data carriers is regulated by the Instruction
Sheet "For transportation of the printed, audio and audiovisual
materials over the Ukrainian border", issued on August 22,
1994 by the State Customs Committee of Ukraine. The Instruction
Sheet is the main document regulating the transportation of printed
editions, scripts, scientific products, originals and copies of
personal documents, and audiovisual materials by state departments,
groups of people, organizations, as well as citizens of Ukraine
and foreign states.
Preview of all the data is required to avoid transportation across
the border of the following:
a) data protected by Ukrainian laws "On the state secret",
"On the data", as well as other data considered as state
secret;
b) materials that provoke revolution, violation of territorial unity,
state sovereignty and security, war, rape and violence, racism,
religious discrimination, crime;
c) materials that contain recipes for drugs and poisonous substances;
d) pornographic and vulgar materials.
Additional permission is required for the data not intended for
public distribution.
All data carriers must be presented for checking in advance. The
owner should fill out two copies of the MD-4 customs declaration,
indicating the number and type of data carriers, nameplate data,
country of destination, and claiming the absence of prohibited data.
The duration of checking will depend on the number and type of the
data carriers. Therefore, we emphasize the importance of their checking
in advance. After checking the inspector will put a stamp and indicate
the results on the declaration.
One copy of the completed declaration and the checked data remains
with the owner of the data carriers. The declaration is valid for
one year.
Luggage
Luggage Customs registration of unaccompanied luggage moving through
the customs border of Ukraine:
1. This document outlines customs registration of the unaccompanied
luggage belonging to Ukrainian citizens, foreigners and persons
without citizenship.
The unaccompanied luggage (later - UL) includes objects shipped
by their owner or on behalf of their owner that cross the Ukrainian
customs border separately from their owner.
2. Customs registration of UL imported into Ukraine:
2.1. The shipment of UL is recorded in the passenger customs declaration
on entering Ukraine.
One copy of this declaration, stamped by the customs inspector,
remains with the owner of UL, and the other - with the customs inspector.
2.2. When receiving the UL, the owner should present the passenger
declaration to the customs indicating presence of UL, currency and
valuables brought into Ukraine.
2.3. The person receiving UL on behalf of its owner should present
the owner's declaration and the notarized order.
2.4. Calculation of import taxes on the contents of UL accounts
for the value of declared goods imported into Ukraine personally
by their owner.
3. Customs registration of UL exported from Ukraine:
3.1. Customs registration of UL takes place in the customs of the
owner's residence.
3.2. When exporting UL from Ukraine its owner must fill out three
copies of the passenger customs declaration, indicating the UL contents.
3.3. After the UL registration, one copy of the declaration remains
with the UL owner, second - with the customs officer, and the third
is added to the UL documentation file.
Animals
Animals Objects (goods) that require special permission to be imported
into Ukraine:
Dogs - veterinary certificate and international cynelogic certificate
(passport) issued by the Ukrainian cynelogicSociety;
Live animals - veterinary certificate of the Ukrainian State Committee
on standardization, metrology and certification;
Objects (goods) that require veterinary, ecological, sanitary or
phytosanitary control are allowed only after passing such control.
The veterinary control on border
With the purpose of protecting the territory of Ukraine from animal
and bird diseases that could be brought from the territories of
other states or quarantine zones, and with the purpose of protecting
the population against the diseases common for animals and people,
the import/export transportation of the following items is liable
to veterinary control: animals and birds of all species, products
and raw materials produced by animals, fish, bee, a silkworm, fodders,
fodder additives, biologicals, veterinary medical agents, microbes,
viruses and funguses, toxins and so forth.
These cargoes must be accompanied by veterinary documents of the
standard pattern. The export veterinary certificates are issued
by the establishments of the state medicine in the region of cargo
origin, and import veterinary certificates are issued by the veterinary
bodies of the exporting countries).
At exporting cargoes liable to the inspection of veterinary service
the national veterinary certificates are exchanged for international
veterinary certificates on frontier points of the state veterinary
control.
At importing the cargoes liable to the inspection of veterinary
service the international veterinary certificates are exchanged
for national veterinary certificates on frontier points of the state
veterinary control after passing cargo inspection in the state veterinary
laboratory.
The state veterinary supervision and official registration of documents
for import, export and transit of cargoes liable to veterinary control
is chargeable service according to the applicable rates.
The owners exporting or importing cargoes liable to veterinary control
should clarify and take into account the episodic situation in the
importing and the exporting countries.
Transportation of animals and birds
Transportation of animals and birds in the interior of the plane
is forbidden, except for the guide dogs with all required certificates
and booking in advance. The guide dogs are transported without charge
on the last chairs. They have to wear the dog muzzle, dog leash
and have to be tied to the chair of the owner.
The cage is necessary for transportation of animals and birds. The
flour of the cage must be covered with adsorbent and the door must
be locked. The carriage must be with handles, and covered by light
proof cloth. The transportation of animals and birds is not free
and is charged by each kg.
They can be transported only in the baggage compartment. On the
international flights you also have to show the permission to transport
your animal.
Plants Quarantine
According to Ukrainian regulations on plants quarantine, all tourists
and passengers, both Ukrainian and foreign, who arrive to Ukraine
from other states are forbidden to import the following materials
liable to quarantine:
seeds of cultivated and wild-growing plants;
alive plants and their parts (tubers, roots, rhizomes, bulbuses
etc.);
soil and plants with soil ( sprouts, saplings, flowers in pots,
etc.);
aive hexapods, acarines nematodes and other harmful organisms;
cultures of alive funguses, bacteria, viruses - plant pathogenic
organisms;
collections of insects, seeds and herbariums of various plants.
Import of fresh vegetables and fruits (except for potatoes) for
persons is permitted up to 10 kgs for each kind.
In case of presence of above mentioned materials liable to quarantine
in their luggage all tourists and passengers of the international
transport lines must present these materials for check to the agriculturist
supervisor of Public Service on Quarantine of Plants on frontier
point, and irrespective of the term and the purposes of the arrival
strictly execute the orders of the supervisor.
Transportation of plants
In case you have quarantine materials in your luggage you must presents
these materials for State quarantine inspection, regardless of the
term and purpose of your visit.
The passengers may consult beforehand on ph.: (380 44) 296-73-92.
Export and import of Ukrainian and foreign
currency
Import of Ukrainian currency is allowed:
for natural persons - residents on conditions that they declare
orally to customs house the sums of money not exceeding 1000 hryvnas
per one person (irrespective of the age), including anniversary
and memorable coins made of not precious metals the nominal value
of which is expressed in hryvnas, as well as anniversary and memorable
coins made of not precious metals the nominal value of which is
expressed in Ukrainian karbovanets (one hryvna amounts to 100000
karbovanets).
on conditions that natural persons - residents and non-residents
(irrespective of age) provide the customs declaration on the sums
of money previously exported from Ukraine on legal ground (in presence
of the customs declaration on their exportation).
The import of Ukrainian currency by natural persons - residents
and non-residents in the sums exceeding the above mentioned norms
and also in the cases which have been not stipulated above is allowed
on the basis of the individual license of the National Bank of Ukraine.
Import of a foreign currency is allowed:
on conditions that natural persons - residents and non-residents
declare to the customs house the following:
the sums of money not exceeding 10,000 US dollars or the equivalent
of this sum in other foreign currency according to the official
exchange rate of hryvna to the foreign currencies established by
the National Bank of Ukraine on the date of crossing the customs
border per one person (irrespective of the age);
The checks emitted by foreign banks not exceeding 10,000 US dollars
or the equivalent of this sum in other foreign currency according
to the official exchange rate established by the National Bank of
Ukraine on the date of the customs declaration registration;
on conditions that natural persons - residents and non-residents
indicate the following points in the customs declaration:
sums of money previously exported earlier from the territory of
Ukraine on legal grounds (in presence of the customs declarations
for those exportations);
sums of money not exceeding 10000 US dollars or the equivalent of
this sum in other foreign currency according to the official exchange
rate established by the National Bank of Ukraine on the date of
customs declaration registration;
the checks emitted by foreign banks and banking establishments not
exceeding the sum of 50000 US dollars or the equivalent of this
sum in other foreign currency according to the official exchange
rate established by the National Bank of Ukraine on the date of
customs declaration registration;
bank metals in the shape of bars weighting up to 100 g per one person
irrespective of the age.
bank metals in the shape of bars weighting up to 100 g per one person
irrespective of the age. The cash foreign currency imported by the
natural person the resident exceeding 10000 US dollars, or the equivalent
of this sum in other foreign currency according to the official
exchange rate established by the National Bank of Ukraine on the
date of the customs declaration registration is accepted by the
customs house for storage.
The declared currency is transferred by the customs house to the
current foreign currency account open in the name of the natural
person the resident (bank services payment is realized at the expense
of the natural person), on conditions that this person presents
documents which certify the availability of the account in an authorized
bank (copy of these documents remains in the customs). Otherwise
the currency is returned to the holder for importation to Ukraine
on conditions that he presents special sanction of the National
Bank under the form 05.
The cash foreign currency imported by the natural person non-resident
exceeding 10000 US dollars is accepted by customs house for storage
and returned to the holder for importation to Ukraine on conditions
that he presents special sanction of the National Bank under the
form 05. Otherwise the currency is returned to the holder when he/she
departs from Ukraine.
On conditions that they present the special sanction of the National
Bank under the form 05 the natural persons residents and non-residents
may import to Ukraine checks for the sum exceeding 50000 US dollars
or the equivalent of this sum in other foreign currency according
to the official exchange rate established by the National Bank of
Ukraine on the date of the customs declaration registration and
the registration of bank metals in the shape of bars weighting more
than 100 g.
Importation of payment cards, bank documents to Ukraine is allowed:
on conditions that natural persons declare to the customs house
the following:
residents and non-residents - the payment cards emitted by the banks
of Ukraine (including international payment systems) and the payment
cards emitted by foreign banks and banking establishments (including
international payment systems);
residents - nominal savings books and other supplementary documents
which certify the availability of hryvna deposits in banks of Ukraine
provided that these documents are written out under the name of
the person who enters Ukraine;
residents and non-residents - nominal savings books and other supplementary
documents which certify the availability of foreign currency deposits
in authorized banks provided that these documents are written out
in the name of the person who enters Ukraine.
residents and non-residents - nominal (savings) books and other
supplementary documents which certify the availability of foreign
currency deposits in authorized banks provided that these documents
are written out in the name of the person who enters Ukraine.
The export of Ukrainian currency from
Ukraine is allowed:
On conditions that natural persons - residents orally declare to
the customs house the sum of money not exceeding 1000 hryvnas per
one person (irrespective of age) including anniversary and memorable
coins made of not precious metals the nominal value of which is
expressed in hryvnas, and anniversary and memorable coins made of
precious metals the nominal value of which is expressed in Ukrainian
karbovanets (one hryvna amounts to 100000 karbovanets);
On condition that natural persons residents and non-residents indicate
in their customs declaration the sum of money not exceeding 10000
hryvnas per person (irrespective of age) including:
the sums not exceeding 5000 hryvnas (by nominal value) including
anniversary and memorable coins made of not precious metals the
nominal value of which is expressed in hryvnas and in Ukrainian
karbovanets;
anniversary and memorable golden and silver coins the nominal value
of which is expressed in hryvnas, and anniversary and memorable
silver coins the nominal value of which is expressed in Ukrainian
karbovanets. The total nominal value must not exceed 5000 hryvnas.
Exportation of currency of Ukraine by natural persons residents
and non-residents in the sum which exceeds the above mentioned norms
and also in the cases which have been not stipulated above is allowed
on the basis of the individual license of the national Bank under
the form 03.
Exportation of a foreign currency from the territory of Ukraine
by natural persons who leave with the tourist purpose or in private
affairs:
for natural persons residents and non-residents on condition that
they orally declare to the customs house the sum in cash or traveler's
cheques not exceeding 1000 US dollars or the equivalent of this
sum in other foreign currency according to the official exchange
rate established by the National Bank of Ukraine on the date of
crossing the customs border.
on conditions that natural persons residents and non-residents indicate
the following points in their customs declaration:
the sum of foreign currency previously imported to Ukraine on legal
grounds (in the presence of customs declarations of the previous
importations);
funds not exceeding 5000 US dollars or the equivalent of this sum
in other foreign currency according to the official exchange rate
established by the National Bank of Ukraine on the date of the customs
declaration registration, including cash withdrawn from the personal
account in an authorized bank of Ukraine (further - an authorized
bank) or purchased in cash department of an authorized bank, and
the traveler's cheques purchased in cash department of an authorized
bank, according to the certificate of an authorized bank for exportation
of a foreign currency and checks expressed in a foreign currency,
under the form 01;
bank metals by the shape of bars weighting up to 100 g per one person
irrespective of age;
natural persons non-residents - the checks emitted by foreign banks
and banking establishments which were imported to Ukraine with observance
of Ukrainian laws.
Natural persons non-residents - serviceman and employees of Russian
army who are deployed on the territory of Ukraine and go to Russian
Federation on holiday or to the new duty station or place of work,
and also the servicemen transferred to the reserve of the Russian
army are allowed to import Russian currency received as salary on
the territory of Ukraine provided they have a certificate signed
by their commander and their chief accountant, which must be certified
by the seal of their military unit. This sum must not exceed the
sum indicated in the third paragraph of this item.
The foreign currency cash in the sum exceeding the above mentioned
norms must be transferred to a foreign bank through an authorized
Ukrainian bank or imported by natural persons residents and non-residents
on the basis of the individual license of the National Bank under
the form 03.
Exportation of a foreign currency from the territory of Ukraine
natural by persons who leave the country for business trip:
On conditions that natural persons - residents and non-residents
orally declare to the customs the sum of foreign currency in cash
and/or traveler's cheques not exceeding 1000 US or the equivalent
of this sum in other foreign currency according to the official
exchange rate established by the National Bank of Ukraine on the
date of crossing customs border.
on conditions that natural persons - residents and non-residents
indicate the following points in their customs declaration:
the sum of foreign currency previously imported to Ukraine on legal
grounds (in the presence of customs declarations of the previous
importations);
funds not exceeding 10000 US dollars or the equivalent of this sum
in other foreign currency according to the official exchange rate
established by the National Bank of Ukraine on the date of the customs
declaration registration, including cash and/or to traveler's cheques
in the presence of the certificate issued by an authorized bank
for the exportation of foreign currency and the checks expressed
in a foreign currency in business trip from the territory of Ukraine
under the form 01;
natural persons non-residents - the checks which imported to in
accordance with the Ukrainian legislation.
Exportation of payment cards and bank documents from the territory
of Ukraine:
On conditions that natural persons orally declare the following
points to the customs house:
residents and non-residents - the payment cards emitted by the banks
of Ukraine (including international payment systems);
non-residents - the payment cards emitted by foreign banks and banking
establishments (including international payment systems) imported
to Ukraine with the observance of the current legislation of Ukraine;
residents - nominal savings books and other supplementary documents
which certify the availability of deposits in hryvnas in authorized
banks provided that these documents are written out in name of the
person who leaves the territory of Ukraine;
residents and non-residents - nominal books and other supplementary
documents which certify the availability of foreign currency deposits
in authorized banks provided that these documents are written out
in name of the person who leaves the territory of Ukraine;
on conditions that natural persons - residents indicate in their
customs declaration:
the payment cards emitted by foreign banks on the basis of the individual
license of the national Bank for opening the account in a foreign
bank (it is presented the appropriate customs house).
Custom Regulation tend to change fast, so before your travel we recommend to contact Ukraine Embassy in your contry to double-check the current customs requirements.
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