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The Maritime Analysis and Operations Center (Narcotics) in Lisbon – a background paper on the foundation and successes of the EU’s prime law enforcement body for the prevention of Transatlantic narcotic drug smuggling

Weerth, Carsten - In: Customs Scientific Journal (2022) 1, pp. 55-59

Narcotic drugs are smuggled from the Americas to Europe and many parts of the World. While opium, cannabis, hashish or other drugs are mainly coming out of Asia or Africa and are channelled and smuggled to Europe mostly on a land passage (or very short maritime routes), cocaine is mostly...

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Cocaine Smuggling by Help of Narco-Submarines from South America to Europe and Africa: A Proven Case – A Last Wake-Up Call for Customs Services Around the World

Weerth, Carsten - In: Customs Scientific Journal CUSTOMS (2020) 1/2020, pp. 37-42

The drug cartels of South America and organized crime have long been known to use semi-sub speedboats, Narco-Torpedoes and Narco-Submarines for smuggling cocaine from South America to Mexico and eventually to the United States of America. The drug trade is increasing strongly and organized crime...

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Cocaine Smuggling by help of Narco-Submarines from South America to Africa and Europe: A call for a higher awareness of an existing smuggling pathway

Weerth, Carsten - In: Customs Scientific Journal (2020) 2/2020, pp. 33-49

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Customs Mutual Assistance Agreements in the light of Article 12 TFA – a Global Perspective

Weerth, Carsten - In: Customs Scientific Journal (2019) 1, pp. 79-96

Customs co-operation at international, regional and global levels is aimed at ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations and improving trade flow control through the exchange of information on Customs aspects such as transit, export and import declaration data, origin and...

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Globally Uniform Harmonized System Nomenclature? Waivers for Developing Countries and Membership Development: Situation 2017

Weerth, Carsten - In: Customs Scientific Journal CUSTOMS 7 (2017) 1, pp. 50-62

The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS) is the most successful legally binding instrument of the World Customs Organization (WCO) with 156 contracting parties. More and more countries and economic regions are applying the HS nomenclature worldwide. But not all member states...

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The World Customs Organization - A History of 65 Years of Growth and its Legal Milestones

Weerth, Carsten - In: Customs Scientific Journal CUSTOMS 7 (2017) 2, pp. 17-24

The World Customs Organization (WCO, Organization Mondiale des Dounaes, OMD) is an intergovernmental organisation that was founded as European Customs Co-Operation Council in 1952 in Brussels/Belgium. It governs all Customs co-operation matters from tariff nomenclature, over universal Customs...

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The Johannesburg Convention on Mutual Customs Assistance - is a new tool failing earliy?

Weerth, Carsten - In: Customs Scientific Journal CUSTOMS 6 (2016) 2, pp. 35-46

The Johannesburg Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Customs Matters as of 2003 is a crucial breakthrough and important legal tool for the implementation of risk analysis systems by customs authorities governed by the the World Customs Organization (WCO) around the globe. However...

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