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...false point of origin is a favorite trick. One German steel firm shipped East German steel to the duty-free port of Antwerp, filed off its origin markings and cleverly forged papers to make it appear as if it came from Belgian mills, from which it could be imported at a low duty within the Common Market. East German machines are sometimes shipped to Amsterdam, where they are doctored and remarked as Swedish products to make a big saving on import duties. Some Germans have become "meat millionaires" by working the same dodge to bring in canned Yugoslavian horse meat...
Bogus Honey. Germany has tried to check the third-country gambit by routing all import certificates through the Customs Criminal Institute of Cologne, the only one of its kind in Europe. To ferret out forgeries and check suspicions, the institute's Falstaffian head Dr. Ludwig Franzheim, and his staff have a central smugglers' file of 62,000 names, a list of 7,000 suspicious shipping agents and boat owners, and dossiers on 6,000 unreliable truckers. But, mourns Franzheim, "intellectual smuggling dominates today," and already the smugglers have found ways to beat the tariff collectors by falsifying customs...
...other game interests Latin Americans so much. The continent's futbol madness began as a respectable British import. In the 1840s, the citizens of Argentina's port of Buenos Aires watched in fascination as the crews of British ships idled away dockside hours kicking a ball around. In Peru, where other British sailors spread the fever, the saying is that "the only good things we owe the British are soccer and Scotch." And of the two, soccer is by far the more intoxicating. It appeals to a Latin sense of rhythm, of masculine grace and strength...
...measure now goes back to the Senate for its consideration, possibly Tuesday or Wednesday, A speedy decision is needed since officials of the Export-Import Bank have agreed to delay action on wheat deals until the Senate acts on Mundt's bill. The bank has agreed to underwrite sales of $25 million of U.S. wheat to communist Hungary...
...daily. Therein lay the rub. Because it was obligated to buy the companies' oil, Y.P.F. had to cap many of its own wells, complained angrily that the total cost of the oil to the government oil company was now more than it once paid to import oil. This the private companies denied, and in the conflicting figures no one could be sure who was right, but the nationalists talked loudest...