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• n  money collected under a tariff
• n  accepted or habitual practice
• n  a specific practice of long standing
• n  money collected under a tariff
• n  habitual patronage

• As rector of his city's historic San Fernando Cathedral for 12 years, Elizondo became a leader in bringing Mexican religious customs and traditions into the Catholic service.
• The seed of a South American customs union was planted last week.
• A leader bringing Mexican religious customs and traditions into the Catholic service.

• customs duty
• custom
• impost
• usage
• usance
• tradition

News & Articles

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• Immigration enforcement head John Morton announces resignation
  WASHINGTON – Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton announced his resignation Monday, after more than four years at the head of the agency.        
  June 17, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• US Customs’ Beetle Discovery in Texas Is a Port First
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at the Brownsville, Texas, port of entry have intercepted a shipment of solid wood packaging materials from Russia that was contaminated with live Monochamus galloprovincialis beetles.
  June 14, 2013 - Journal of Commerce Online
• The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Institute of Research Against Counterfeit Medicines (IRACM) issue a new ...
  PARIS, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A customs operation of an unequalled scale was carried out in April of this year in 23 African countries.  More than one billion articles and in particular 550 million ...
  June 13, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Roza Otunbayeva in Sky News
  She told the Russian daily Kommersant: "There were very many deaths in the countryside, and our customs dictate that we bury our dead right away, before sunset."
• Michael Hayden in Reuters
  When the soul of a nation finally speaks, the institutions that arise may reflect customs and traditions very different from our own. America will not impose our own style of government on the unwilling. Our goal instead is to help others find... President Bush http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFh0u2JMmcpgHHAEOKNoPb27FyIcg RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/01/1b401c44-11ea-4f2c-a7a0-81c0154a03ac.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGWUHqezeXGELmCraNDXSR0r_Y-cw Jan 20, 2005 24427 32682 customs They are bringing operatives into that region for training -- operatives that wouldn't attract your attention if they were going through the customs line at Dulles (airport outside Washington) with you when you were coming back from overseas,"...