And it has an edge: it embraced new technology early on, being one of the first to computerize customs clearance and other port operations.
The General Administration of Customs, while announcing the first quarterly trade deficit since the first quarter of 2004, blamed rising prices for boosting imports.
Or the first joint police-customs unit, painstakingly put together in the late 1980s but also short-lived?
Tax dodgers are being named on a list published by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for the first time, as their affairs come under greater scrutiny.
Postal inspectors, customs and other revenue agents were some of the first federal law-enforcement officers in the years after the Revolution.
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Of course, when U.S. troops first arrived here in 2001 to oust the Taliban, customs regulations were the last of their concerns.
On the very first morning of the sequester, the U.S Customs and Border Patrol, also under DHS Secretary Napolitano, reduced staffing at several major international airports, leading to wait times in excess of two hours for 70 flights arriving at JFK, and 55 flights at Miami International Airport.
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Berbers were the first inhabitants of North Africa, and many still follow older customs and practice ancestral crafts.
Late on the first morning, Wadsworth had been obliged to introduce the collector of customs to the notebook.
Wadsworth had first inquired, by pointing to his fee scale, if the collector of customs wished for a portrait of the entire family, matching portraits of himself and his wife, or a joint portrait, with perhaps miniatures of the children.
Customs data showed that China imported 9, 300 tonnes of polysilicon from the EU in the first half of the year, an increase of 30.8% from a year earlier.
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The first inklings of trouble didn't come until we sauntered through the airport to the customs area.
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Sun Dahong, the police chief who heads Yunnan's anti-drug enforcement, says that the province is the first to set up a special force of 13, 000 armed police, soldiers and customs guards to stop drugs getting in or, once in, from getting out.
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The government made economic advances under the first administration of President YUDHOYONO, introducing significant reforms in the financial sector, including tax and customs reforms, the use of Treasury bills, and capital market development and supervision.
The world of First Century Palestine - the stone houses and grand temples, the fishing boats, the clothes and customs, even the plants - were extensively researched and are authentically recreated in the models and animation.
The first step towards the 19th-century unification of Germany was, after all, the formation of a customs union, the Zollverein.
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