Customs and logistics activities in ensuring financial and economic security

Russian Customs Academy, Komsomolsky Prospekt, 4, Lyubertsy, Moscow region, 140015, Russia

^* Corresponding author: l.kachanova@customs-academy.ru

Abstract

Geopolitical and geo-economic factors of influence on the country’s economy impose new requirements in ensuring the financial and economic security of the state. A significant place in ensuring the economic security of the state is assigned to the customs authorities. Along with the functions of budget revenue administration, customs control, in importance, is customs and logistics activities. The purpose of customs logistics is to ensure the financial and economic security of the country, taking into account possible external and internal threats, during the movement of cargo across customs borders. The methodology of the research includes the substantiation of the conceptual apparatus, the purpose and the main tasks of the logistics there. The positions of the EAEU member states on the Logistics Efficiency Index are analysed, common difficulties of the customs and logistics systems of the EAEU member states are identified; it is concluded that the countries for the period under study have not reached the optimal level of logistics infrastructure formation. A strategy for managing threats and risks of the customs and logistics sphere, logistics innovations is proposed. Based on the proposals, a forecast of the trade turnover of the Russian Federation for 2023 and a forecast for exports and imports of the EAEU member states with China and India has been compiled. The innovative component of improving customs and logistics activities is associated with the use of Cargo tracking technology, electronic declaration, and the introduction of a logistics process automation system that allows forecasting sales, purchases, and inventory balances. Strategic management of the development of customs and logistics activities is associated with the formation and implementation of ideas, the choice of technologies, tools and mechanisms for planning, forecasting, motivation, stimulation and controlling, integrating operations and functions into a single complex that guarantees the financial and economic security of the state.