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The shipments caught by customs authorities mostly originate from free industrial zones, also called export-processing zones, in China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Egypt.
In most parts of the world, customs agencies are not especially focused on CFC’s, and the compounds are not easy to distinguish from HFC’s without sophisticated analytical equipment.
Customs officials all over the world and fighters of organized crime have a new battle – this time for the environment – on their already busy hands.
By joining a new Alliance for Torture-Free Trade, governments will agree to establish national export bans on products used for torture or executions, while further empowering their customs authorities to enforce the prohibitions.
Second, they will help to create a platform for exchanging information across borders, so that customs officials can monitor international trade flows and identify new products that should be interdicted.
Israel is also considering a suspension of transfers of Palestinian tax and customs revenues, and has threatened to annex parts of the West Bank.
People of different nationalities and ethnicities have been living in this region side by side for centuries, sharing customs, traditions, bread and wine, and mutual respect for each another’s cultures and languages.
And the best way to guard against that is to establish an EU-Ukraine customs union.
The prospect of a customs union is the strongest incentive to implement the agreed free-trade deal and continue Ukraine’s long-term economic integration with Europe.
Since Turkey forged a customs union with the EU in 1996, bilateral trade in goods has increased more than fourfold.
I do not view an EU-Ukraine customs union through rose-tinted glasses; there are some downsides.
Joining the customs union would limit Ukraine’s ability to negotiate its own trade agreements.
Old social structures were destroyed, socialist customs and habits vanished overnight, former norms and unwritten rules were abandoned.
Abolishing such customs is a moral obligation, but in other instances, the international community often needs to decide which institutions to change and how.
His main proposal so far has been a “Eurasian Union” – an expanded version of the current customs union among Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
True, new forms of poverty and unemployment are rising, but they remain well hidden behind family solidarity or corporate customs.
The junta certainly has no intention of abandoning its vast economic empire (with its tax-free benefits, land ownership and confiscation rights, preferential customs and exchange rates, and other prerogatives).
Instead, he chose to have Ukraine enter a customs union with Russia, in exchange for a pile of cash and cheap oil and natural gas.
To be sure, immigrants must agree to adapt to the cultures and customs of the countries in which they settle.
As Vietnam’s Youth Newspaper reported in 2010, there is an underground market for diplomatic license plates: for about $20,000, the purchaser can avoid tens, even hundreds, of thousands of dollars in customs duties.
Anti-corruption efforts – whether directed at political bosses, officials who turn a blind eye to customs violations, or local traffic cops accepting a few dollars for an infraction – should figure centrally in the region’s strategy for mitigating inequality.
None has even publicly pointed out that the referendum gave Prime Minister Theresa May no mandate to rule out membership of the European single market and customs union after Britain leaves the EU.
Whatever the merits – and they are considerable – of her arguments against the bigotry of Islamic or African customs, especially those concerning the treatment of women, she lent respectability to bigotry of a different kind: the native resentment of foreigners, and Muslims in particular.
The language of the Brexit referendum did not include any mention of the EU customs union and single market, or of the European Court of Justice.
As long as each is still in the EU customs union and single market, this poses no problem.
But if either were to leave, customs checkpoints would have to be established at all major border crossings, with potentially dangerous implications for the Good Friday Agreement, which restored peace in Northern Ireland a generation ago.
After March 29, 2019, the UK will enter a transition phase in which it will remain a member of the single market and customs union.
It would involve membership of the single market and customs union, with acceptance of the rulebooks for both, but freedom to go it alone elsewhere.
They are also more likely to challenge laws and customs that relegate them to second-class status in the public sphere or mandate their subordination within the family.
The dramatic decrease in laws and customs perpetuating female subordination over the past 40 years has been closely connected to women’s expanded participation in paid employment.
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