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Home Affairs announces plans for Border Management Agency2 comments

Mike Poverello wrote 4 days ago: Minister for Home Affairs, Naledi Pandor, in her recent budget debate  (click hyperlink to view full … more →

Tags: Border Management Agency, Border posts, capacity building, Co-operative border management, customs

Non-Tariff Barriers - SADC Secretariat requested to intervene in Mozambique

Mike Poverello wrote 1 week ago: The SADC, COMESA and EAC Tripartite alliance has been urged by various Zimbabwean, Zambian and Malaw … more →

Tags: Border posts, COMESA, customs, Customs Compliance, Non Tariff Barriers, SADC, SINGLE WINDOW, trade corridors, trade facilitation

The Golden Age Is Over: Stacking Up Borderlands Sources in Dandong2 comments

Adam Cathcart wrote 2 weeks ago: North Korea’s Dandong fleet hovers in the Yalu | image via QSL.net Visiting Dandong is indeed … more →

Tags: Borderlands, chinese capitalism, Cross-border business ties, DPRK-Soviet Relations, North Korean capitalism, Sino-DPRK Relations, Sino-US relations, Special Economic Zones, Chinese business in North Korea

Homeland Security’s proposed new Canada-U.S. border fee prompts alarm

Kristie Pearce wrote 4 weeks ago: A U.S. proposal to charge a new fee for every vehicle or pedestrian crossing the U.S.-Canada border … more →

Tags: News, The Border, Canada-U.S. border, Homeland Security!

EAC Traders Encouraged to Grab AEO Business Opportunities

Mike Poverello wrote 4 weeks ago: The EAC business community has been asked to take advantage of the Authorized Economic Operator (AEO … more →

Tags: AeO, customs, Export, freight forwarders, trade facilitation, transit, Africa, Authorized Economic Operator, EAC

Chinese diaspora hurtles UK towards Milkageddon1 comment

hongkongblogger wrote 1 month ago: It’s rainy season again. Not rainy like those insipid drizzly squalls we used to get back in Blighty … more →

Tags: baby formula, benny hill, China, Dead Pigs, Hong Kong, Milk Powder, "Milk Wars", Parallel Trading, Pollution

First-ever Global Arms Trade Treaty!2 comments

Andrea M. Ewart, Esq. wrote 1 month ago: International law has firmer rules for the trade of commodities like bananas and electronics than it … more →

Tags: Africa, International Development, International Organizations, International Trade Law, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, Public International Law, Arms Trade Treaty, Child Soldiers

Deceived: Savers and Investors Lose Money in Cyprus Deal; Time To Kill The Euro? EU?4 comments

johnib wrote 1 month ago: European Union The punishment regime imposed on Cyprus is a trick against everybody involved in this … more →

Tags: News, France, Politics 2, Italy, Unemployment, GDP, Spain, Eurozone, Egypt

URA Introduces Electronic Cargo Tracking System

Mike Poverello wrote 1 month ago: A goods-laden vehicle arrives at a Uganda border where a declaration is made for transit to another … more →

Tags: customs, Information Technology, Logistics, RFID, seals, Allen Kagina, cargo seals, kampala, Nakawa

The Gender Agenda in Trade1 comment

Andrea M. Ewart, Esq. wrote 2 months ago: In many developing countries, the informal economy is at least as important as that economy which ca … more →

Tags: Africa, International Trade Law, Latin America and the Caribbean, womens rights law, cross-border traders, East Africa Women Cross Border Traders Association, gender agenda, Informal economy, International Trade Center

South Africa Now the Major Export Market for Zim Tobacco

Mike Poverello wrote 2 months ago: Zimbabwean auctioneers selling tobacco This should bring happiness to the local Ministry of Health. … more →

Tags: customs, tobacco, South Africa, Zimbabwe, China, Tobacco Industry

SARS Customs launches its Water Wing

Mike Poverello wrote 2 months ago: SARS plans to operate jet skis (such as pictured above) along its vast river borders. [Picture - SAR … more →

Tags: Border posts, Co-operative border management, customs, Non Intrusive Inspection, South African Customs, Africa, cape town, Customs officers, Hugo Taljaard

Inside track to the local Tobacco 'Cabal'

Mike Poverello wrote 2 months ago: With much international focus on tobacco and tobacco products its great to read something outside of … more →

Tags: contraband, corruption, customs, illicit goods, Integrity, Advocacy, Google, health, South Africa

AU considers continental Customs Connectivity

Mike Poverello wrote 3 months ago: The African Union (AU) Technical Working Group on Interconnectivity has developed a ‘draft … more →

Tags: customs union, Data Model, information exchange, Information Technology, IT Inter Connectivity, revised kyoto convention, SACU, SADC, SAFE Framework

Beit Bridge afloat!2 comments

Mike Poverello wrote 3 months ago: I received the following pictures purportedly of traffic under siege at the Beit Bridge border post … more →

Tags: customs, Border posts, South Africa, beitbridge, Zimbabwe, limpopo river, border-checkpoint, flood waters, Limpopo Bridge

Beitbridge handles half a million travellers over festive season1 comment

Mike Poverello wrote 3 months ago: The queues at Beit Bridge Beitbridge Border Post recorded a sharp increase in the number of travelle … more →

Tags: customs, Passenger processing, SADC, beitbridge, Beitbridge Border post, Christmas, Immigration, SARS, South Africa

NRA/BURS - Customs Connectivity Passes Test 1 comment

Mike Poverello wrote 3 months ago: The first live demonstration of an end-to-end customs connectivity solution was successfully complet … more →

Tags: Border posts, customs, customs declaration, information exchange, IT Inter Connectivity, SACU, trade corridors, Africa, ASYCUDA

U.S Fiscal Cliff Deal Gives Canadian Renewable Energy a Tax-Credit Reprise

beyondtheborderobserver wrote 4 months ago: The Globe and Mail Richard Blackwell Some Canadian renewable energy companies with activities in the … more →

Tags: Media Articles, News Articles, fiscal cliff, renewable energy in Canada

Considering a Reset of China's 'Special Relationship' with North Korea: Huffington Post Live1 comment

rogercavazos 金大健 wrote 5 months ago: Abby Huntsman, pictured with SinoNK’s Adam Cathcart, leads a conversation about the past, pres … more →

Tags: chinese capitalism, Chinese Communist Party, Collapse Scenarios, Cross-border business ties, cultural relations, Diplomacy, DPRK–ROK Relations, Economic Reform, Kim Jong-Il


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