Legal principles of public administration activity in foreign economic relations in Ukraine

Abstract

The scientific article reveals the concept of public administration of foreign economic activity in Ukraine. This is the activity of authorized administrative bodies (public administration) regulated by administrative and legal norms in foreign economic relations to ensure the balance of the economy and the equilibrium of the domestic market of Ukraine, stimulation of progressive structural changes in the economy, foreign economic relations of subjects, creation of the most favorable conditions for attracting the economy of Ukraine into the system of the global division of labor and its approximation to the market economy of developed foreign countries.
All subjects have the right to carry out foreign economic activity (FEА), regardless of the form of ownership and other characteristics. Types of foreign economic activity in Ukraine are foreign trade, economic, scientific and technical cooperation, specialization and cooperation in the field of production, science and technology, economic relations in the field of transport, construction, insurance, forwarding, credit, settlement operations and provisions of various services.
The principles of FEA are the basic guiding ideas that underlie this activity. The principles of foreign economic activity include: the sovereignty of the people of Ukraine in the implementation of foreign economic activity, freedom of foreign economic entrepreneurship, legal equality and non-discrimination, the rule of law, protection of the interests of subjects of foreign economic activity, equivalence of exchange and others.
Regulation of foreign economic activity is carried out in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine and provides for:
- Acts of tariff and non-tariff regulation implemented by state bodies of Ukraine within their competence.
- Economic measures of operational regulation (currency and financial, credit, licensing (including quotas) of foreign economic operations, price control).
- Decisions of non-state economic management bodies, which are adopted according to their statutory documents.
- Transactions concluded between subjects of foreign economic activity are adopted in accordance with the laws of Ukraine.
The subjects of foreign economic activity in Ukraine are: natural persons, legal entities (registered in Ukraine, including those with foreign capital, joint ventures), their associations, branches, and representative offices of legal entities of foreign states in Ukraine; state customers in the field of defense, and other.