Agreed, the United States has markets for labour and capital, an approach to government and all manner of other customs and economic institutions that are peculiarly well-adapted to embracing radical economic change.
And they may have great products, but they may not have the infrastructure to be able to navigate a whole bunch of other countries' customs and regulatory impediments.
The agency pursues the cases it receives from police, customs and other agencies through the civil courts.
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In the airport corridor in London, as the trail wends toward customs, other travelers seem unaware of his presence.
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Two other accords, on customs co-operation and on trade in chemicals used for illicit drugs, were signed in The Hague.
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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In the past, and during the time of sanctions, the lack of a proper port, customs and other facilities meant that smuggling was widespread.
That agenda had included plans to reduce the costs of doing business across borders by 5% over the next few years by, among other things, streamlining customs procedures and speeding up applications for export permits.
Also today, the Assembly designated 30 July as the International Day of Friendship and invited all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system, and other international and regional organizations, as well as civil society, to observe it in an appropriate manner, in accordance with the culture and other appropriate circumstances or customs of their local, national and regional communities.
And it has an edge: it embraced new technology early on, being one of the first to computerize customs clearance and other port operations.
"Crittenden was told by U.S. Customs agents that other reporters and soldiers returning from Iraq have been and will be subject to similar searches, " the paper's statement said.
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.
"With the rapid pace of globalization, corporate America has got the message that global growth requires talent with in-depth knowledge of the languages, customs and geography of other parts of the world, " she says.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Panalpina bribed customs officials in Nigeria and other countries and has requested documents from the oil service companies and Royal Dutch Shell, according to securities filings.
They note that customs had to borrow officers from other sections to beef up its patrols.
At the Miami International Airport, visitors arriving from a Cuban airport are seven times more likely to be stopped and subjected to further customs inspections than are visitors from other countries.
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And we have expanded our interagency task force to include enforcement partners such as the FBI and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, along with many other Federal agencies.
One course might be to stop pretending it is just another member of the Organisation of African Unity or Southern African Development Community, and start developing bilateral relations with other African countries, perhaps extending the South African Customs Union free-trade agreement to them.
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).
Import quotas have largely been replaced with customs duties, and subsidies, tax breaks and other special favours for farmers scaled back.
After 20 minutes, we had made good headway on figuring out how to blame each other for this disaster when the escort came loping out of customs, followed a minute later by an apparently flustered Rekers.
"TECS really is the backbone or the mainframe, the real operating system for Customs and Border Protection that has the information from other law enforcement agencies, " said Kathy Kraninger, a former Homeland Security official and now a security consultant.
Currently, electronics and other finishing touches are installed in Hong Kong, which means the yachts incur customs duties for Chinese buyers.
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Other the past few weeks MPs have been hearing evidence from police officers, customs officials and representatives of the tobacco and fuel industry on the extent of smuggling in Northern Ireland.
The panel also will urge increasing the presence of U.S. inspectors from Customs, the Border Patrol, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and other agencies in countries that are major exporters to the United States, an administration official said.
But there was also the undocumented version, consisting of fables, family customs, and hearsay passed along by my grandmother Bari Bauwa and the other women of the house.
We also will and grant that all other cities, boroughs, towns, and ports shall enjoy all their liberties and free customs.
The OTS's remit covers UK taxes and duties administered by HM Revenue and Customs, but it will not deal with tax credits or taxes administered by other bodies nor will it have any influence on setting tax rates.
He was almost unaware of the laughing tumult that broke out when the other two examined the drawing, and then of the silence that fell when the collector of customs, drawn by the sudden noise, entered the kitchen.
The AFGE represents 12, 000 of the TSA's nearly 40, 000 transportation security officers in many personnel matters, while also overseeing the broader collective bargaining of nearly 40, 000 other government employees at the Department of Homeland Security, including the Coast Guard, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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