This is now swipping a paper cup coffee at Customs canteen after filing customs valuation declaration (amedament) to ladies appraisers. Having fished the mission, I walked into Customs’ small museum exhabiting things from old archive to the latest copy bags seized at airports and international post office.
What I wanted to inspect was an old handwritten English dictionary in the mid 19th century.
My predecessors
were hard working people and they had made their dictionaries by themselve by possibly partially infringing copy rights of original text.
The next to the dictionaries is the customs tariff in1868, or the first years of Meiji era.
The tariff table is so thin and could be simple. After 150
years it has become inches thick and complicated. And trade ficilitation agreements making origin rules and items definitions beyond IoT solution.
