Basics of the International System of Customs and Tariffs

Although customs and tariffs operate from a national perspective, it is the overarching international structure of classification, valuation, etc. that is imposed upon the national schemes that provide international customs and tariffs with a comprehensible global consistency whose understanding is of great importance for those dealing in international commerce.

It is this global scheme of customs and tariffs laws and practices that the author describes so thoroughly and well. Having mapped out for the reader that global scheme, he then describes the many types of variances and exemptions from the global scheme that must be understood as well.

Basic Guide to International Customs and Tariffs provides a highly readable description of its subject and a unique global perspective not encountered in other books dealing with the same topic.

Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

G. Gregory Letterman has lived and practiced law in Asia, Australasia, Latin America, and Europe, as well as in the United States. He has had broad and extensive global experience in international commercial legal matters while working for the U.S. government, law firms, and corporations and teaching at law schools. He is the author of multivolume legal treatises on international commercial law and of books and articles on various aspects of international commercial law. He is the managing editor of a quarterly journal on international contract law.