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Rules on investment and customs clearance, among other things, triggered the collapse of the WTO talks, but they are at the forefront of discussions at ASEAN.
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Meanwhile, the SPL vowed to investigate whether the way Rangers used employee benefit trust payments (EBTs) for players, which were the subject of a separate HM Revenue and Customs probe, breached its own rules.
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Under the rules of the Southern African Customs Union, a fledgling free-trade area, cars made in Botswana can be exported to South Africa almost duty-free.
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Abraham often speaks publicly for the different sects in the ultra-orthodox community, which has strict rules governing clothing, social customs and interaction with the outside world.
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Temple Mount and the western wall would become pavilions in which the strictest rules are observed and the most colourful customs preserved.
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NAFTA's complex rules of origin, moving instead towards a customs union with common tariffs on goods from other countries (to be set at the lowest level of any of the three).
ECONOMIST: North America
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The EU wants rules on investment, competition policy, government purchases and customs clearance.
ECONOMIST: The Mexican marathon
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But there are no rules for this emerging world of social media, only customs and habits, which is one of the things that makes it a fascinating mess.
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Washington operates by customs and behavioral norms as much as it does by laws and parliamentary rules.
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Some of these rules make sense on their own terms (who could be against swift customs clearance or transparent government procurement?) but they would be costly for poor countries to implement and monitor.
ECONOMIST: The Mexican marathon
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The second task is to accept that, if they are serious about being a customs union, Mercosur's members must accept that they no longer have complete freedom to change their own trade rules.
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