Digital transformation of Russian customs authorities’ activities on the example of automatic release technology

Abstract

The article considers the main factors limiting the use of automatic release technology in electronic customs declarations. The directions of further development of the potential of the investigated technology in the conditions of digitalisation, automation and intellectualisation of customs administration in the Russian Federation have been proposed. In order to expand the coverage of the declaration array by automatic release technology, the main directions for improving the automation mechanism at the release of goods have been designated, trends of automation of customs operations and its influence on the development of foreign economic activity have been defined. The methodological basis of the study was fact-finding, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, system and process approaches, logical and statistical methods.

Keywords

• customs administration
• foreign trade activity
• e-declaration
• digitalisation
• automation
• customs control
• customs operations
• automatic release
• licensing procedure
• risk management system