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...

Im grenzüberschreitenden Warenverkehr (v. a. Reiseverkehr o. Postverkehr, aber auch Übersiedlungsgut) werden häufig Exemplare von Tieren oder Pflanzen eingeführt, deren Einfuhr dem Washingtoner Artenschutzübereinkommen CITES (Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of...

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 channeled and smuggled to Europe mostly on a land passage (or very short maritime routes), cocaine is mostly produced...

More and more countries and economic regions are applying the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System Convention). This article examines in the update 2011 the new countries that are using the worldwide uniform language of trade since 2007 and 2008 and that are...

More than 200 countries and economic regions worldwide are using the nomenclature of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System Convention, HS) and are basing their customs tariffs thereon. The number of HS headings (four-digit-code) and HS-subheadings...

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...

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...

The fundamental rules for the classification of goods into a customs tariff which is complying to the Harmonized System for the description and coding of goods (HS) are according to general rule 1 solely the six general rules of classification, the terms of headings and the notes (and according...

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...