US Customs embarked on a major modernization initiative of its Information Technology systems. Drawing in data from Customs trade systems, targeting inspectors review manifest information as well as strategic and tactical intelligence to determine which shipments and containers are “high-risk.” This entails a considerable level of communication and data sharing between various government agenci...

This paper reports on an ongoing study of an initiative to build e-Customs capabilities in eastern Africa. The EU’s customs capability building unit is trying to “export” e-Customs solutions to developing countries in order to strengthen the competiveness of companies based in these countries. Following the international development, eCustoms (with the improved control and traceability possibil...

A paperless trade and Customs environment brings real benefits for both business and governments. Increasing internationalisation of business and supply chain security considerations increase pressure for the automation of trade and customs procedures. The European Commission has recently developed a vision for a paperless trade and Customs environment. It argues that implementing this vision, ...

All countries would agree to immediate global free trade if countries were compensated for any terms-of-trade losses with transfers from countries whose terms-of-trade improve, and if customs unions were required to have no effects on non-member countries. Global free trade with transfers is in the core of a Kemp-WanGrinols customs union game. (52 words)

E-government aims to ease administrative processes based on an electronic handling. While larger enterprises can often benefit from electronically integrated governmental transaction services, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) regularly face certain obstacles. For instance, this can be observed in the context of ecustoms transactions. According to a United Nations study, an inefficient c...

This article studies value assessments of IT solutions in public as well as in private contexts and aims to identify benefits of business-to-government innovations. The work analyzes the case of the implementation of European common e-customs solutions. Over the last few years, e-customs has become a widely studied topic within the European Union. However, only a little research has been conduc...

This article studies value assessments of IT solutions in public as well as in private contexts and aims to identify benefits of business-to-government innovations. The work analyzes the case of the implementation of European common e-customs solutions. Over the last few years, e-customs has become a widely studied topic within the European Union. However, only a little research has been conduc...

For more than 15 years, the EU customs policy has required the implementation of IT trans-European systems to enable the exchange of information between national customs administration, the Commission, and in some cases traders. Since 2003, when the Commission issued a Communication on a simple and paperless environment for customs and trade that was subsequently endorsed by the Council, the ef...

The medieval systems of law in Italy and Europe have been proposed as a sort of virtual laboratory to deal with the issue of ensuring that the principle of equality in the rule of law be compatible with the recognition of indigenous peoples’ customs. The legal framework of the medieval communes sought to strike a balance between the general interest in having legal certainty and uniformity with...

INTRODUCTION Globalization requires the European Union (EU) to reduce the administrative burdens on companies involved in cross-border trade if the EU is to remain a competitive economic zone. Two important foci in the EU electronic customs MultiAnnual Strategic Plan are the implementation of Authorized Economic Operators (AEO) and the Single Window vision. The Multi-Annual Strategic Plan aims ...