Brexit: Is Boris Johnson telling the truth about Northern Ireland border checks?
This article originally published in October has been updated to take account of the controversy surrounding the prime minister’s latest comments. Boris Johnson has repeated claims that there will be “no checks” between Northern Ireland and Britain under his new Brexit deal – despite evidence to the contrary from trade experts, official documents, and the […]
Ukraine vows to enhance customs collaboration with EU to tackle smuggling
The Ukrainian government has adopted new legislation to strengthen customs cooperation with the European Union in order to better combat corruption and smuggling, including tobacco products, the Mission of Ukraine to the EU has told EURACTIV. At the 21st EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv on 8 July, EU Council chief Donald Tusk and Commission President Jean-Claude […]
New Rail Lines, Customs Agreements Changing Trade Between China And Europe
The world’s longest direct link rail journey recently ended after a train from the coastal Chinese city of Yiwu completed a journey to Madrid, Spain that spanned over 8,000 miles. The railway, dubbed the “21st-century Silk Road” by Li Qiang, governor of Zhejiang province, where Yiwu lies, passes through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany and […]
The Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Singapore has entered into force on 21 November 2020
t is the first “new generation” bilateral Agreement signed with a Southeast Asian country. The Free Trade Agreement contains a chapter on Customs and Trade Facilitation and introduces facilitation in the field of customs, new commitments to modernisation and simplification of customs procedures and improvements to speed up physical controls of the goods. It also strengthens the cooperation […]
Ukraine and Slovakia to jointly create logistics terminals
Ukraine’s Minister of Infrastructure, Volodymyr Omelyan, the Slovakian State Secretary of Finance Ministry, Dana Meage, and Slovakian Minister of Transport, Arpad Ersek, agreed to elaborate the possibility for the developing of logistics terminals in Kosice and Mukachevo and decided to create a working group, which will include representatives of the railway companies from the two […]
EU – Hong Kong Customs cooperation
The volume of trade between Hong Kong and the EU makes cooperation between their customs authorities very important to the facilitation of legitimate trade flows and the preservation of supply chain security. On 13 May 1999, the then European Community and Hong Kong, China signed an Agreement on Cooperation and Mutual Administrative Assistance in Customs Matters (CCMAA). See Official Journal L […]
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