July 31, 2019
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A basket of wire and paper - a textile article?

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The terms used in customs legislation are often different from the usual ones, for example: computers are called automatic data-processing machines; “ivory“ refers to the tusks of elephants, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and wild boar, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals. Let's look at how under the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/927 the basket of wire and paper has become a textile product.

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