No single scanner at Ukrainian customs, all damaged by customs officers – Groysman

"You know, we have no single scanner [an x-ray device allowing to inspect goods without opening parcels, vehicles etc.) at customs. All of them are mechanically damaged. That is, customs officers damaged them so that no one could see what goods were transported in containers, cars... Therefore, our task today is to technically "rearm" and modernize them. We will do it together with our American partners. I think we will be able to restore order within a year. But there are two parts to this work. First, there are local anti-crisis things that can be dealt with by administrative orders. Secondly, there are other problems - systemic, strategic changes," he said.

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"We have now launched the "customs hundred", set up a "single window", introduced a completely different tariff calculation for customs clearance. Now we already see the result. In May-July, those who were involved in shady schemes were sitting there and waiting whether Groysman would let go of the issue or not. Then they realized that he wouldn't. It is not good for them not to transport any goods at all: it is better to transport it in a transparent way than to delay shipments further. So in August we received UAH 21.300 billion instead of the planned UAH 19 billion. In September, we also exceeded our plan. It all brings results," he said.