But many - including the elimination of most customs barriers - take effect with the new year.

Although customs barriers have been removed, travelers still must often show travel documents.

Sudan will, therefore, be able to send us its sugar, free from customs barriers, by virtue of the fact that it is a poor country.

"Customs barriers in the socialist community are necessary because of complications in the economic situation."

Well, following decades of non-existent customs barriers, Africa continues to grow poorer.

However, it is currently the European customs barriers, particularly in the agricultural sector, that are a major obstacle to development.

Multinational companies are already beginning to concentrate production in a few low-cost countries as they prepare for European customs barriers to fall next year.

In their greed they have erected artificial immigration and customs barriers, preventing the free movement of people.

Even today, we are told that it would cost the Inland Revenue about £250 million, because of the reduction in customs barriers.

Customs barriers are not, however, the most important problem for the ACP countries.

We will erect the customs barriers again.

Inter-departmental customs barriers were put into the trading.

This means that member states have removed customs barriers between themselves and introduced a common customs policy towards other countries.

Border lines and customs barriers had fallen.

If much of this information disappears after 1992 (with the demise of customs barriers), the problem to which it relates will not.

Is there anyone in Latvia who wants to return to a Europe where there are customs barriers between nations?

Within "old" Prussia itself, the customs statutes from 1818 reduced domestic customs barriers.

After that date, all of France formed a single unit from the point of view of customs barriers.

This, it hopes, will help overcome customs barriers and create revenue flows to ease exchange-rate worries.

What is the point of liberalizing trade by limiting tariff and customs barriers if this leads to ecological disasters?

Signs flashed above the entrances, the mass of the most recent arrivals ebbing away through the multiple customs barriers.

The removal of customs barriers in respect of the developing countries, which will help these countries, is progressing slowly.

Safety standards have gradually become fairly uniform and customs barriers have fallen, meaning that moving cars across borders poses few problems.

Functionally, it removed many internal customs barriers, while upholding a protectionist tariff system with foreign trade partners.

Broadly speaking, there are two categories of obstacles, customs barriers, whether tariff or quantitative, and more technical barriers.