The scheme returns: old methods in new realities
Odesa customs is again recording the mass import of goods disguised as cheap and unwanted items: plastic jars, threads, glass bottles, shovels and artificial flowers. According to investigations, such goods are cleared for import in huge volumes — by the tonne. At the same time, some foreign companies do not even know that their products are entering Ukraine under such names. Meanwhile, experts doubt that 'unwanted goods' are actually behind these items.
Form is not substance: what is actually being imported
As in previous years, high-liquidity goods are imported under the guise of 'cheap plastic fittings', 'toothbrushes' or 'mops for washing floors': branded clothing, smartphones, electronics, leather bags and expensive fabrics. These schemes appear to have remained unchanged in recent years, despite increased control and investigations by the NABU and SAP.
Одеська митниця тоннами оформлює на імпорт: нитки, пластикові банки, пластикові квіти, лопати, скляні пляшки — загалом всякий непотріб (деякі іноземні фірми навіть не в курсі, що вони таке взагалі виробляють, а насправді, небезпідставно підозрюємо, що там йде зовсім інше. І ніхто нічого не помічає, у всіх все добре.
(Odesa customs clears for import by the tonne: threads, plastic jars, plastic flowers, shovels, glass bottles — generally all sorts of unwanted stuff (some foreign firms are not even aware that they produce such things, and in reality, we groundlessly suspect that something entirely different is going on. And nobody notices anything, everything is fine with everyone.)
History repeats: from 'toilet paper' to 'unwanted goods'
In 2020–2023, similar schemes already attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies. At that time, elite electronics, clothing and accessories were imported under the guise of 'toilet paper' or 'inexpensive parts'. Now — the same logic, but with a modified nomenclature. The method of minimising customs payments by substituting the commodity group remains unchanged.
10 October 2026, 11:08 | Views: 1413
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