customs
Example Sentences
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"We are better looking to the single market rather than the customs union for our further alignment," Sir Keir said.
From BBC
Olive Young, South Korea's biggest cosmetics retailer which plans to open its first store in the US this year, imposed a 15% customs duty on American orders.
From BBC
"We also reject the attempts by traditional elders who want to resolve this case through clan customs or behind closed doors."
From BBC
The plan worked better than expected, and what began in 1951 as a six-country European customs union covering coal and steel evolved over decades into the EU.
Yet some that can’t clear customs because of missing or incomplete information are returned—or destroyed.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.