The World Customs Organization (WCO, Organization Mondiale des Dounaes, OMD) is an intergovernmental organization of 176 Member States that was founded as European Customs Cooperation Council in 1952. The first Kyoto Convention on simplification of customs procedures is one of its most important...

From 1948 to 1994, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Secretariat received 124 indications of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) relating to the trade in goods, and since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, more than 240 additional RTAs (covering trade in...

More and more countries and economic regions are applying the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System Convention). This paper examines in the update 2012 the new countries which are using the worldwide uniform language of trade.

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...

§ 32 ZollVG wurde mit dem Gesetz zur Änderung des ZollVG vom 10.3.2017 umfangreich geändert. § 32 ZollVG ist überschrieben mit "Nichtverfolgung von Steuerstraftaten und Steuerordnungswidrigkeiten; Zollzuschlag". Die Vorschrift des § 32 ZollVG typisiert bestimmte Bagatellverfehlungen, für...

New gaps are emerging worldwide in all customs tariffs that are using the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System Convention) following the technical revision as of 1 January 2007. Thirty-four headings are not in use for the next four to five years. This...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die historischen und aktuellen Entwicklungen der Weltzollorganisation (WZO), einer zwischenstaatlichen Organisation mit 184 Mitgliedern, die internationale Zollangelegenheiten und die Zusammenarbeit von Staaten in diesem Arbeitsfeld regelt. In den letzten zehn Jahren...

Im grenzüberschreitenden Warenverkehr (v.a. Reiseverkehr o. Postverkehr) liegt die Aufmerksamkeit bei der Kontrolle von Tieren oder Pflanzen auf der Einfuhr von exotischen Exemplaren, die dem Washingtoner Artenschutzübereinkommen CITES (Convention on the International Trade in Endangered...

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...