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There have been several customs unions around the world, but none as successful as the EU’s.
May’s government has said that leaving the customs union will enable the UK to make its own trade deals.
If the UK, including Northern Ireland, is out of the customs union, and the Republic of Ireland is still in, there will have to be a hard border.
And May’s government has proposed no plausible alternative solution for managing the relationship between two different customs regimes without a border.
This month, the country closed the United States’ military transit center near Bishkek, and declared its intention to join the customs union that preceded the EaEU by the end of this year.
Russia’s foreign ministry has just announced that, as of January 1, citizens of post-Soviet countries that are not members of the customs union and the EaEU will no longer be allowed to enter Russia without passports.
At a recent Eurasian Economic Commission session in Sochi, Belarus and Kazakhstan rejected the Kremlin’s proposal to introduce customs duties for goods imported from Ukraine if the country signed the EU association agreement.
The Belarusian government considers it to be Ukraine’s sovereign right to sign agreements with the EU – a flat contradiction of Russia’s stance – and appears likely to introduce customs fees of its own for electronic goods imported from Russia.
It took some time, but Yanukovych’s determination to press on with the European integration efforts begun by his predecessor, Viktor Yushchenko, has become increasingly clear – in the face of repeated calls (and sometimes thinly veiled threats) by Russia to join its customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan.
But US customs authorities will still have to incur the cost of monitoring all steel imports to ensure that they are not misclassified.
His three main policy instruments toward the post-Soviet states are the customs union implied by his proposed “Eurasian Union,” Gazprom, and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
Currently, Putin’s top priority is to persuade as many countries as possible to join the customs union, but so far only Belarus and Kazakhstan have done so.
But the other post-Soviet countries resist, because a customs union with Russia would force them to raise their import tariffs, hindering their trade with other countries.
In fact, in October 2011, Russia initiated such a new multilateral free-trade agreement in the post-Soviet space; but, owing to the Kremlin’s single-minded pursuit of the customs union, only Belarus and Ukraine have ratified it, leaving its relevance in doubt.
The Central Asian countries’ opposition to a customs union with Russia reflects their growing trade with China.
In Europe, Moldova, Ukraine, and the Caucasian countries prefer free-trade agreements with the European Union, which the customs union would preempt.
Moreover, the customs union makes it almost impossible for Russia to conclude any free-trade agreement with the EU.
The current Ukrainian government would happily hand over half of its pipeline system to Gazprom in exchange for a lower gas price, but Putin demands that Ukraine also join the customs union.
Although it surrendered control of its gas pipelines to Gazprom, it is still charged a usurious price in the face of Russian demands that it, too, join the customs union.
Regional identity, cultural diversity, and traditional arts and customs have been buried under concrete, steel, and glass all over China.
Is it to buttress GDP growth when the UK is no longer part of the European single market and customs union?
Simplifying customs procedures and opening up markets for public procurement could bring further benefits.
Paying bills is difficult, not only because Israel is slow in transferring customs revenues, but also because promised aid from Arab countries often never arrives.
In Venezuela, importers must wait six months after goods have cleared customs to buy previously authorized dollars.
Brexit, therefore, would leave Northern Ireland outside the EU’s customs union, and the Irish Republic inside it.
Hence May’s agonized efforts to secure a deal that prevents a “hard” border with customs checks.
To avoid this outcome, May’s plan provides for Britain to leave the EU but remain “temporarily” in the customs union, pending the negotiation of a free-trade agreement with the EU, with the “backstop” of a guaranteed open border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, come what may.
Likewise, the ten MPs of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Union Party, on whose support the government now depends, are torn between wanting free trade with the South and fear of being sucked into the Irish Republic if and when the rest of Britain leaves the customs union.
The DUP has denounced all talk of a special arrangement or “backstop” to enable Northern Ireland to remain in the customs union in lieu of a UK-EU free-trade deal.
Syria’s aid to Saddam in maneuvering around the United Nations’ oil-for food program brought Iraqi money to inhabitants of the border region, who have always been closer in customs, dialect, and outlook to their Iraqi neighbors than to their fellow Syrians.
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