Import-export basically involves a signed contract and having a
partner in Ukraine. Your goods are shipped to Ukraine and,
hopefully, you will eventually get paid for it, per terms of your
duly executed agreement. That is the simple legal essence of all
import-export transactions. From a timing standpoint, when setting
up your import-export transactions in Ukraine, you can either go
slowly or you can go fast.
Alex Frishberg: Thank you very much for attending. We are going
to try to be fairly comprehensive about import-export in Ukraine.
Here is how: I will very briefly provide you with a theory of
import-export in Ukraine under existing law. Next, Ms. Anastasia
Dokuka will tell you about how import-export actually works because
at one time she was a very serious customs broker. In that capacity
Ms. Dokuka faced all kinds of problems, which she resolved in a
very efficient manner. And after Ms. Dokuka, our senior lawyer, Mr.
Vladimir Lukovich, will describe specific
