International Customs Law as a Branch of International Law

Abstract

Over the last decades the role of customs regulation, namely its unification for the sake of simplifying mutual trade between the states, has considerably increased. An essential role in it plays an international legislative consolidation of the principle of non-discrimination at trade in goods. Conventions and contracts on special, customs issues aim to codify and unify already existing arrangements on a wide spectrum of international relations in terms of moving goods, broadening this way the circle of sources of the international customs law. The authors analyze various scientific statements about the place of the international customs law in the modem legal system, noting a topical and highly debatable nature of the matter.

Keywords

• международное таможенное право
• международное экономическое право
• отрасль международного права
• источники права
• international customs law
• international economic law
• branch of international law
• sources of law