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customs-tariff legislation and custom-house establishments. 533
that it is not intended to send back the goods cither to the country of
production or of purchase or to any foreign agent of the producer or seller.
Laboratory of the Customs Training School, Stockholm.
The Customs Establishments. The Royal Board of Customs
(Generaltullstyrelsen) has charge of the local Customs administration, of the
Coastguard and of the Erontier-guard. The Customs Service (Tullverket)
looks after the collection of Customs-revenue — i. e. customs-duties on
imports, tonnage dues, fees for bonded-warehouses, transit-warehouses,
free victualling stores, and customs-refunds — and also the tax on sugar
imported from abroad and dues for lights and beacons. The Customs
Service has also to collect certain statistical information concerning
trade and navigation, to see to the observance of the laws that aim at
preventing the introduction of infectious diseases into the kingdom, or
that provide for prohibition or control in the import or export of certain
goods, as to goods with incorrect statement as to place of origin, poisonous
substances, meat, margarine, certain forest productions; and in the event
of a ship going on shore or suffering shipwreck, the Department has to
exercise supervision and protect the rights of the Crown.
The Royal Board of Customs is divided into four sections: the secretariate,
the exchequer office, the audit office, and the examination and information
office. Besides exercising a general guidance and control over the entire
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