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Free zones may reduce or eliminate taxes, customs duties, and regulatory requirements for registration of business. Zones around the world often provide special exemptions from normal immigration procedures and foreign investment restrictions as well as other features.
A customs officer in Amsterdam Airport Schiphol checks the luggage of an incoming traveler. Vienna Convention road sign for customs. Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country.
The thirtieth or thirtieth customs (Hungarian: harmincad, Croatian: tridesetnica, Latin: tricesima) was a tax on foreign trade in the Kingdom of Hungary. Origin [ edit ]
Convention (norm), a set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted rules, norms, standards or criteria, often taking the form of a custom Mores, what is widely observed in a particular culture, considered to be practiced by persons of good moral character
The United States Customs Service was a federal law enforcement agency of the U.S. federal government.Established on July 31, 1789, it collected import tariffs, performed other selected border security duties, as well as conducted criminal investigations.
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
Customs may be revoked by a competent ecclesiastical legislator, in the same way and for the same reasons as other ordinances are abrogated. A later general law contrary to a general custom will nullify the latter, but a particular custom will not be abrogated by a general law, unless a clause to that effect be inserted.
A customs territory is a geographic territory with uniform customs regulations and there are no internal customs or similar taxes within the territory. Customs territories may fall into several types: A sovereign state, including a federation; A trade bloc that has a customs union