Global trade and customs – a journey around the world of customs

Karlis Ketners
Karlis Ketners
Professor, BA School of Business and Finance, Riga, Latvia, Latvia
Zsolt Szatmári
Zsolt Szatmári
The Managing Senior of the VAT Knowledge Team, IBFD Amsterdam, Netherlands
Published 22 Jan 2021
Global trade and customs – a journey around the world of customs
Case law
Profession
Highlights from the Global Trade and Customs book: different cultural approaches to litigation; import VAT/GST in countries with multi-level VAT/GST systems; customs value and transfer pricing. The editor of the book Zsolt Szatmári also reveals challenges of a multi-jurisdictional comparative study. Dr. Karlis Ketners shares the reader‘s perspective.

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