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.

More countries and economic regions are applying the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System Convention). Here is an overview for 2014 of the new countries which are using the worldwide uniform language of trade now and will apply the tariff scheme from 2015.

The customs sanctions of the EU-27 are not harmonized – the sanctioning of customs offences is still the task of the twenty-seven Member States and their national legislation. The US has attacked the purely national customs sanctions of the EU as break of the WTO rules in the WTO Dispute...

The Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) status is being introduced around the globe in more and more countries in order to combat terrorism by better security measures in World Trade. This paper gives an overview about existing AEO programmes and new AEO programmes which are about to start in...

Mit der VO (EG) Nr. 273/2009 hat die Kommission angesichts von zahlreichen Gerüchten endlich Klarheit hinsichtlich der Geltung der neuen Vorschriften für die Summarische Eingangsanmeldung und Summarische Ausgangsanmeldung geschaffen: die Vorschriften, die ab dem 1. Juli 2009 gelten sollten,...

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 2009, the new countries which are using the worldwide uniform language of trade since 2007 and 2008 and which are...

Diese tabellarische Übersicht der Zollbefreiungen fasst den aktuellen Rechtsstand zusammen (Stand: 1.8.2017). Diese Neufassung berücksichtigt insbesondere die vollständige Geltung des Unionszollkodex (UZK) - VO (EU) Nr. 952/2013 mit den beiden DVOen UZK-DA - VO (EU) 2015/2446 - und UZK-IA -...

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...

Der Unionszollkodex (UZK) (VO [EU] Nr. 952/2013 des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates vom 9.10.20132 wird mit Wirkung vom 1.5.2016 den bisher geltenden Zollkodex der Gemeinschaften (VO [EWG] Nr. 2913/92) vollständig ersetzen. Viele Vorschriften fallen weg oder werden vollständig neu...