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Ec Customs Classification Rules: Should Ice Cream Melt?, Edwin A. Vermulst
Ec Customs Classification Rules: Should Ice Cream Melt?, Edwin A. Vermulst
Michigan Journal of International Law
This Article will demonstrate that these classification conflicts seldom have definitive solutions by examining European Community (EC or Community) classification rules in light of the international framework. This approach is justified because the EC's customs classification system, centered on the Combined Nomenclature (CN), is based on the most commonly used international system of classification, the Harmonized System (HS).
Hidden Agenda: The Expansion Of Product Scope In International Trade Proceedings, Timothy A. Harr
Hidden Agenda: The Expansion Of Product Scope In International Trade Proceedings, Timothy A. Harr
Michigan Journal of International Law
Part II of this Article examines current legal standards. It concludes that U.S. product scope rulings are nominally made pursuant to a set of objective legal/factual standards, but that because of the breadth of these standards, the Commerce Department has considerable discretion in making such decisions. Part III examines recent Commerce Department product scope rulings, which highlights a policy goal of prevention of evasion by foreign suppliers. The Department, which technically has no authority to expand the product scope and no formal authority to consider evasion, is uncomfortable with this current situation. This has caused the Administration to propose amendments …
Recent Trends In Transport Rate Regulation, Leonard S. Goodman
Recent Trends In Transport Rate Regulation, Leonard S. Goodman
Michigan Law Review
The object of this Article is to describe the trends in the Commission's work during the 1960's in some of the areas of rate regulation that could not be settled by mere reference to costs, and in other areas of changing rate policy. This was a prolific period for the Commission, one that involved many rate innovations and a sense of new direction in certain aspects of rate regulation. The present discussion of the Commission's rate work is in no sense complete; and there is no intention to make it so. By emphasizing the decisions of the recent decade, I …