Customs Tools to Ensure Food Security in Russia

Abstract

Ensuring food security as an integral part of the economic security of the state is one of the Central problems of the state economic policy of most post-Soviet countries. In recent decades, the vector of implementing food security policy has changed. If at the beginning of market reforms the key task of the national governments of the former Soviet Union was to fill the market of food products regardless of the import component, it is now important to ensure food independence, provided the availability and quality of food. Russia, which has significant potential in the agricultural and food industries, by the beginning of the 21st century has become an import-dependent country by major groups of food. The article systematizes the peculiarities and contradictions of the application of the customs tariff regulation instruments in the food sphere of Russia, analyzes the impact of the customs policy on the food security of the country. The scientific significance of the work is determined by a complex system approach to the factor analysis of food security from the perspective of Russia’s membership in the world trade organization and the consequences of bilateral economic sanctions in relations between Russia and Western countries.