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How delays at the Lviv customs turn imported food into trash, and price tags into records
While prices for vegetables and fruit are rapidly soaring on the shelves of Ukrainian supermarkets, the Lviv Customs under the leadership of Ivan #Керезвас appears to have embarked on a destructive course to destroy trade relations with our western neighbors.
📌A striking example of this is the systematic and arbitrary prolongation of customs clearance for perishable goods of the Polish company #OLVAR SP. Z O.O. at the #Городок customs post in WMO zone number two. Instead of following the clear directives of the Customs Code to complete procedures as quickly as possible, Lviv customs officers are subjecting shipments to multi-day detentions.
Thus, in May of this year the company’s shipments were held for four to five days even after successfully passing phytosanitary control, although the law allows only a few hours for that. Moreover, officials resort to outright absurdity by ordering repeat sample collections of the same goods under the state food control, causing new collapses and a collaboration of bureaucratic red tape.
🤷♂️The consequences of such mockery of logistics proved disastrous for a batch of fresh mandarins from OLVAR. After several days of idling, the temperature inside the boxes rose to twenty degrees, the boxes became soaked with moisture, and the fruits themselves rotted en masse, even though temperature regimes during international transport were perfectly observed. As a result, almost ninety percent of the batch turned out to be completely spoiled and failed to meet quality standards, causing the foreign supplier colossal losses, including storage costs and surveyor fees.
Since the Polish side operates under DAP terms, such delays directly breach foreign economic contracts and undermine trust in our state. ❗️In response to numerous complaints and information requests, our team receives only form letters, since Lviv Customs shifts all the blame onto the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, which limits itself to dry quotations of laws without any substantive reaction.
✅We are already preparing appeals to national and international institutions, because such bureaucratic games not only deprive the Ukrainian market of quality products, but also demonstratively destroy the strategic bridge of trust between Ukraine and Poland.
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