About the Organization of the Customs Service at the Mesolevel

The article defines the role and significance of customs services in foreign economic activities. The actuality of the problem of customs services development is stipulated by the necessity to develop foreign economic activity of any country. The existing system of customs services in foreign economic activities in the Russian Federation is estimated in the work and the problems of its functioning are revealed. The goal of the research is to define the directions of the customs services system development. On the basis of multi-level approach we can single out macro-, micro- and mezolevels of the organization of customs services and give the characteristics of the activities of subjects of different customs space levels. We focus on the necessity to develop the customs infrastructure on mezolevel, the main elements of which are professional customs mediators providing effective interaction between the participants of foreign economic activities and the customs bodies. As the result of the research we can substantiate the expediency of formation of a complex mezosystem of customs services which will unite customs bodies and organizations dealing with export-import operations and professional customs mediators. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s3p30