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FUCAFF is the acronym for the Federation of Uganda Customs Agents & Freight Forwarders, an exclusive umbrella association for member clearing firms or companies registered in Uganda. With the slogan Fostering Tax Compliance with Stakeholders , it was formed in 2009 after UCIFA and its offshoot UFFA to coordinate with URA .
Global map of countries by tariff rate, applied, weighted mean, all products (%), 2021, according to World Bank.. This is a list of countries by tariff rate.The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Membership to UFFA is for both local and foreign companies involved directly and/ or indirectly in freight logistics (Shipping, Customs clearance, Cargo handling, Warehousing plus Transporting). As of 2017, the association boasted of a total of 115 members [1] handling over 90% of Uganda import and exports.
The first recorded customs tariff was from 136 in Palmyra, an oasis city in the Syrian desert. [1] Beginning near the end of the 20th century, the procedures used throughout most of the world for customs valuation were codified in the Agreement on Implementation of Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994.
[1] [2] Traditionally, customs has been considered as the fiscal subject that charges customs duties (i.e. tariffs) and other taxes on import and export. In recent decades, the views on the functions of customs have considerably expanded and now covers three basic issues: taxation, security, and trade facilitation. [3]
A tariff is a tax imposed by the government of a country or by a supranational union on imports or exports of goods. Besides being a source of revenue for the government, import duties can also be a form of regulation of foreign trade and policy that taxes foreign products to encourage or safeguard domestic industry. [1]
It is designed to end re-exportation; but it may also inhibit imports from countries outside the customs union and thereby diminish consumer choice and support protectionism of industries based within the customs union. The common external tariff is a mild form of economic union but may lead to further types of economic integration. In addition ...
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987, creates the goods nomenclature called the Combined Nomenclature, or in abbreviated form 'CN', established to meet, at one and the same time, the requirements both of the Common Customs Tariff and of the external trade statistics of the European Union. [1]