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Trading firms need to bribe customs bureaucrats.
There would be much less corruption if say, local government officials did not have the right to approve the opening of shops, if customs officials could not keep imports at the border for months, and if joints ventures did not require numerous approvals.
Trade liberalization will undermine the power of trade and customs officials.
First, they would be able to sell solutions to law-enforcement bodies, such as customs agencies and the police, and to companies in the supply chain.
But a Eurasian customs union among post-Soviet and other countries is not the road to modernization for Russia; nor is an effort to make the defense industry the engine of industrialization.
There are no easy ways out of underdevelopment without challenging traditional lifestyles, customs, and social relations.
Bill Gates created a company with one of the largest market capitalizations in the world yet can move with ease through customs with "nothing to declare."
The condition for success in the American case was that the US raised its own revenue, with federally administered customs houses initially providing the bulk of its receipts.
The SCO promotes free trade, too, and aims to build essential infrastructure such as roads and railways to link its members and boost commerce between them while also harmonizing customs systems and tariffs.
Supposing that the South Koreans take on the task, US customs officials will either have to trust their numbers, or incur the costs of duplicating the monitoring efforts needed to enforce the quota.
The civil code was completed, a new customs code was enacted, and substantial judicial reform was implemented.
The customs duty on beef imports, for example, is currently 38.5%.
A clear structure of formal rules is the best antidote to these flaws, for they bolster the informal customs on which so much in society depends.
The initiative should also encourage free movement of goods and people within the region, by lifting the customs restrictions and complicated procedures that hinder bilateral and multilateral trade.
As things stand, we are in danger of making Europe politically irrelevant, a successful customs union with a Swissified foreign policy and a group of fractious, vision-free leaders.
Historically, the rich in each low caste emulated the customs and rituals of the upper castes, such as child marriage, the payment of dowries, and prevention of widows remarrying.
While the EAU is still only a customs union, the European Union’s experience suggests that a successful free-trade area leads over time to broader economic, monetary, and eventually political integration.
The plan has been clear: Start with a customs union – initially Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan – and add most of the other former Soviet republics.
Then, perhaps a couple of decades after the customs union is formed, its members consider creating a true monetary union with a common currency (the Eurasian ruble?) that can be used as a unit of account, means of payment, and store of value.
But the first step is a customs union, and, in the case of the Eurasian Union, it had to include Ukraine, Russia’s largest neighbor to the west.
Indictments have been issued against former and current cabinet ministers, members of parliament, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, police and customs officers, and other public officials, as well as directors of private companies.
EFTA’s aims were a straightforward customs union and a common market, and it was designed from the outset to compete with the EEC, particularly in northern Europe and among the neutral countries.
Are Britain’s parliamentary arithmetic and public opinion moving in favor of or against the “hard Brexit” – a drastic clampdown on immigration and withdrawal from the European Union’s customs union, single market, and legal jurisdiction – planned by May before the election?
The upshot is that a new relationship based on the EEA model, allowing Britain to keep most of the benefits of the EU customs union and single market alongside free movement of people, would not only be economically less painful than a hard Brexit; it would also be supported by a large majority of voters.
But he never stopped being that yehudi, that ordinary Jew, that survivor whose heart would pound as he passed through customs in New York or Paris.
The first is the Hamlet scenario, in which the chaos continues until the UK crashes out of the European single market and customs union.
When leaving Moscow, I was reminded that since October, the green channel in the customs has effectively been abolished.
Previously, you could take out $1,500 without a customs declaration.
To develop these markets, companies will need talented people, from ethnographers (to understand consumers’ customs and preferences) to engineers (to design products that fit a new definition of value).
Although few seriously question the free market economy and liberal individualism in manners and customs, we feel uneasy about forsaking these values.
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