The customs disputes, fuelled by US president Donald Trump, are leaving their traces.
Israel's chilly trade relationship with Jordan and the Palestinian Authority warmed slightly this week as the three neighbors held their first face-to-face discussions of import barriers, border customs disputes and obstacles to regional investment.
The US government alleged that Diageo paid some $2.7 million in bribes over the course of six years to secure sales authorizations, circumvent tax and customs disputes and to obtain new liquor business, netting over $11 million in profit in the process.
For a year, I settled minor customs disputes, bailed drunken American airmen out of the Tripoli jail and played a lot of beach volleyball.
A spokesman for Pinchuk said: "Interpipe... does face issues in respect of exporting to Russia, a major market, as a result of the customs treaty dispute with Ukraine.
The next day it was delivered to his house outside Boston, minus the flutes, plus a note telling him that the "agricultural products" and "bamboo cases" he carried had been destroyed.American customs officials dispute this account.
World events and political decisions, social customs and moral disputes are immensely influenced by faith, for good and ill.
Last month, because of the dispute, Japanese customs officials blocked imports of Samsung SDI's plasma displays.
The Home Office settled a dispute with customs and immigration workers, which averted a threatened strike at ports and airports.
A dispute over customs with its two neighbors, Moldova and Ukraine, has all but sealed the region's borders to trade.
