The educational program “Foreign Trade, Customs and Currency Regulation" is aimed at training specialists in customs affairs with comprehensive knowledge and skills to work in customs authorities, foreign trade, and logistics companies.
The program focus meets international standards within Russia's economic cooperation with foreign countries and their associations, international economic and commodity organizations, as well as the high demand on the labor market for trained specialists who have relevant knowledge in the customs legislation of the Eurasian Economic Union, can represent the interests of foreign trade companies in customs operations.
The only FinU program with a long MANDATORY summer internship from 2 to 5 courses (two academic, industrial and pre-graduate practice). For practical training, students are sent to regional customs administrations, electronic customs offices, electronic declaration centers, ministries and departments, commercial organizations engaged in foreign economic activity, banks, tax authorities, etc.
A block of 6 disciplines where students learn foreign economic activity customs regulation and currency control implementation, developing their skills in supporting customs operations and customs procedures’ application, the use of customs institutions for intellectual property rights protection
Within the block of 5 workshops students will learn more about the taxation procedure of foreign trade organizations and customs payment calculation, determining the goods’ country of origin, the formation of the goods customs value and the mechanism of transfer pricing in foreign trade, as well as they get skills of goods and vehicles’ customs declaration
A block of 5 disciplines where students get skills in commodity science and expertise of food and non-food products, modern customs control technologies’ knowledge, customs administration methods and traceability systems, the ability to identify, prevent and suppress customs offenses and crimes
From the 2 to the 5 years, students learn to work with the most common IT solutions for customs and logistics business support, electronic declaration, remote release, preliminary information, electronic freight, as well as with software complexes of the Federal Customs Service of Russia for interaction with participants of foreign trade and document management in customs authorities
From the 1 to the 5 years, students carry out projects in foreign trade and customs, logistics business support, commodity science and expertise, control and analytical customs field. The project work is completed by mandatory summer internship in customs authorities and foreign economic partner companies of the FinU
A block of control and analytical disciplines aimed at developing audit and internal control skills, risk analysis and assessment, risk management in customs, as well as post-customs audit and control
A block of practice-oriented disciplines where students develop their skills in customs cargo tracking and registration of foreign trade documentation, customs business support and supply chain management (partly in English)
In 4-5 years, students can choose to study advanced business translation technologies in English (with a possibility to obtain a second diploma “Translator/Interpreter in International Economic Relations”), or improve a professional second foreign language and prepare for a relevant international exam
A block of 6 disciplines where students study economic geography and world regionalism, economic potential of the customs territories of Russia and the basics of foreign trade, international trade law and WTO law (in English)
Alumni of the program are in demand as specialists in foreign economic activity, in customs operations, customs managers, customs representatives (customs brokers), customs carriers, logistics specialists, forwarding and declaration of goods, authorized economic operators, e-customs officers, customs analysts, etc.
The only educational program in the FinU with mandatory internship after 2, 3, 4 and 5 years in customs authorities, foreign trade, and logistics companies.
Implementation of projects in foreign trade and customs, commodity science and expertise, customs, and logistics support of business during the entire training period.
Development of skills in customs and logistics support of business, analysis, assessment, and risk management in customs, post-customs audit, and control.
In-depth study from the 1 year of English and a second foreign language to choose from (Chinese, German, Spanish, French).
Some disciplines are taught in English (“Law of the World Trade Organization”, the workshop “International Trade Negotiations”, “Practice of Using Information and Trading Systems in International Entrepreneurship”, etc.).
The opportunity to get a second diploma “Translator/Interpreter in Professional Communication” with studied disciplines and additional study of several modules accounted.
