Trade facilitation plays a vital role for the development of global economies. A reduction in the flow of goods internationally exchanged impact negatively on the revenues of the States (due to the reduced level of duties and other tax collected). In order to balance the revenue collection objective with the facilitation of trade, the World Customs Organisation has developed the "Revenue Package", a collection of guidelines, recomandations and measures to make more efficient and effective the collection of duties by Customs.

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The EU Commission has  adopted special guidelines dealing with the problem of those goods (in particular medicines) moving under the transit regime in the EU territory and seized by customs in one of its member States, being covered by a patent right.

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