The pair are alleged to have organised shipments of Chinese garlic to Norway, which is not in the EU and not subject to its tariffs, then across the border into Sweden.

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Countries agreed to lower their most blatant barriers to trade, such as import tariffs or quotas imposed at the border, while intervening at will, with taxes, subsidies and regulations, in their domestic economies.

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They are usually about explicitly protectionist measures, such as import tariffs or quotas, that keep out foreign goods at the border.

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