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The South Korean government will need to allocate quotas among its steel producers; and US customs officials will have to check all steel imports from South Korea to ensure that they are within the 70% limit and were not transshipped.
US customs officials will also have to inspect all other shipments from other countries to determine which are exempt and which are subject to the 25% tariff.
The European Union should now propose a three-point plan for the Balkans:$ a customs union with preferential access to EU markets within one year.
The existing EU-Turkey customs union should be used as a model.
$ a regional VAT to replace the lost customs revenues should be established within two years.
Regional VAT rates might be increased slightly if expenditure restraint is not sufficient to offset the loss of tariff revenues due to the customs union.
It would remove two major sources of corruption and inefficiency: the customs service and the misuse of public funds in general.
Land registration systems introduced in Africa conflicted with local customs, ignored soil conditions, and rarely led to the emergence of viable real estate markets.
Deeply buried within our daily customs, it is all but invisible among the educated classes--invisible, but ever present.
It isn’t surprising that May would choose a Brexit variant whereby Britain leaves both the EU’s single market and its customs union: she knows little, and cares even less, about economics.
May was less honest about the implications of leaving the customs union.
But this will entail customs controls on trade between Britain and the EU, including goods and services crossing the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
A new border bureaucracy will have to check customs compliance, calculate import duties depending on where goods are deemed to have originated, ensure payments, verify that goods comply with EU standards, and so forth.
Rather than come clean about this, May is seeking “frictionless” trade through “associate membership” in the customs union, even though this directly contradicts her assertion that Britain does not want to be “half-in, half-out” of the EU.
Tenure arrangements may be based both on official laws and policies, and on informal customs.
Even if the UK faced some additional barriers – such as new customs requirements and certificates of origin – their impact would most likely be relatively small.
The case of Switzerland – which is even more integrated into EU production chains than the UK – shows that efficient customs administrations on both sides are enough to keep such barriers to a minimum.
We need to tailor our approach in each market to fit local customs and health priorities.
But this rather innocuous meeting did not go off without problems as, until the very last moment, the customs office at Moscow's international airport refused to approve the import of electronic equipment for the televised transmission.
Palestinian officials argue that acceptance of the Paris Protocol, which formalized the de facto customs union with Israel that has existed since 1967, was conditioned on free access of Palestinian workers to Israel.
But the Palestinian/Israeli customs union is extremely costly because it impedes expanding Palestinian trade links with the rest of the world.
If the allegations that Khobragade systematically underpaid her domestic worker are true, this shows how fully she has adopted the customs of the class to which she has risen.
While the US has, on average, less tariff protection than Europe, the difference is minor (Europe's unweighted customs duty averages 5.2%, versus 3.5% for the US).
No wonder, then, that there are so many lawyers in the US, and why Americans are more litigious than, say, the Japanese, who rely more on customs and traditions.
Then, after Hamas won, the US and Israel immediately orchestrated a cutoff of finances to the newly elected government, including even Israel’s transfer of Palestine’s own customs revenues, which Israel collects as the occupying authority in control of the borders.
The Indian idea is that a nation may contain different castes, creeds, colors, convictions, cuisines, costumes, and customs, yet still rally around a consensus.
In fact, India has no access to the enclaves within Bangladesh that it supposedly rules; there are no customs posts, border markings, post offices, or police to reflect India’s control.
For starters, they could arouse suspicion that the Commission is motivated at least partly by a desire to reap more customs revenues for itself, as a hedge against a Brexit-triggered financial crisis.
Trade is among the reasons: reduced demand from China, unprecedented uncertainty about US trade policy, and the looming prospect of a “hard” Brexit in which the United Kingdom leaves the European single market and customs union.
Rather, they hope to establish a form of electoral rule that can function within a political order based on traditional Thai institutions and customs.
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