Ukraine and the United States will sign a mutual assistance agreement between their customs authorities, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said.

"Today I will have a meeting with Commissioner of U.S. Customs [and Border Protection Robert Gil Kerlikowske] and we will sign an agreement on interaction between the United States and Ukraine. Hopefully, we can conduct technical modernization of customs together – we need a lot of new equipment to prevent contraband and violations, to upgrade our software and, eventually, to refresh our human resources potential," Groysman said in a video address posted on Facebook on Monday morning.

He also said that the government would adopt normative acts "aimed at resolving customs problems; we will create a single window at customs."