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Theresa May’s Trump CardBRUSSELS – In the same week that British Prime Minister Theresa May outlined her vision for a “hard” Brexit from the European Union – withdrawing from the single market and the customs union – incoming US President Donald Trump met with Michael Gove, a leading Tory Euroskeptic.
Such foreign-policy decadence threatens to undermine the EU’s claim to be a community of values, not just a glorified customs union.
Opting out of the values and customs of free societies is problematic, but it is ultimately acceptable.
Rather, the question was argued in terms of culture and faith, with Jewish beliefs and customs deemed incompatible with modern, enlightened Western values.
STAR safeguards the flow of goods and people through measures that secure ships, aviation, and travelers – thereby enhancing cross-border security, customs networking, and protection of corporate supply chains.
Add a free-trade agreement, or even a customs union with Jordan, and you have the makings of a Middle Eastern Benelux (the grouping of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg that formed the economic kernel of what became the original European Community).
In order to avoid the establishment of a hard border – meaning a return to customs and police-inspection stations at all border crossings – the final Brexit treaty will have to include legal and political commitments from both sides.
Specifically, May has confirmed that Britain will be leaving both the EU single market and the customs union.
Possible subjects for that commission's agenda include: financial, fiscal and customs harmonization; transport infrastructure; natural resources and regional development.
Mao also ordered the country to destroy the “Four Olds”: old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits.
Then, in 1963, Turkey entered into an Association Agreement with the European Economic Community; in 1995, it entered into a customs union for manufactured goods with the EU.
Today, about two-thirds of the people polled in ten European countries say they admire America for its popular culture and progress in science and technology, but only a third think the spread of American customs in their country is a good idea.
Truck drivers, who protested against long waits at customs stations, helped spur the effort.
The Bali package commits WTO members to moving toward lowering non-tariff trade barriers – for example, by establishing more transparent customs regulations and reducing trade-related paperwork.
These efforts should be accelerated, and the international community should support African countries’ own efforts to reduce illicit financial outflows, especially through improper trade invoicing, and to strengthen tax and customs administration.
G20 members should codify IUU fishing as the transnational crime that it is and place it under the jurisdiction of Interpol, with police, customs agencies, and justice ministries playing a more active role in enforcement.
We have established a single customs territory, slashing red tape and removing non-tariff trade barriers.
Ukraine has just elected as its president Viktor Yanukovych, who is unlikely to pursue a NATO integration agenda, and if follows through on his commitment to join a customs union with Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, membership in the EU would be precluded.
In addition to military decommissioning, the Good Friday Agreement brought together antagonistic communities by mandating smooth trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, under the aegis of the EU customs union.
Failing an agreement, “the territory of Northern Ireland would be part of the customs territory of the European Union.”
For its part, the UK government insisted that it can address the border issue by remaining in close alignment with EU customs rules and deploying customs-monitoring technologies that have yet to be invented – which is to say, by magic.
If the province were to remain in the EU’s customs and regulatory orbit, there would have to be a border in the Irish Sea.
That would jeopardize not just the workings of the UK’s internal customs union, but also the constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The EU rejected British offers to remaintemporarily in the customs union after Brexit, because that would allow the UK to enjoy the benefits of tariff-free trade without having to permit the free movement of EU citizens.
Emphasis has now shifted to how the entire UK can remain in the customs union, with the proviso that “one day” it might be able to escape.
Similar attempts to bully Georgia were made, and former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili talked about joining Putin’s customs union.
They claim that the early British scholars and administrators who documented Indian customs and translated the early sacred texts were bamboozled by the Brahmins--the first Indians to learn English and thus the only available intermediaries--into believing that the Hindu social order was caste-based.
In contrast, neighboring Kenya was formed by colonial rule from dozens of different peoples or tribes, with different linguistic backgrounds and customs.
Not even Mao Zedong, with the fury unleashed during China’s Cultural Revolution, could make the “Four Olds” (old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas) vanish.
When the May government announced its commitment to follow through with Brexit, it made clear that it would also depart the Single Market and the customs union, without thinking through the implications for the UK’s borders.
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