Nineteenth meeting of national customs directors of Latin America, Spain and Portugal

First meeting on European soil. The Nineteenth Meeting of National Customs Directors of Latin America, Spain and Portugal was held in Palma, Mallorca, Spain, from 2 to 6 November 1998. The opening session stressed the importance of this being the first meeting held on European soil, and members were urged to pool their efforts to develop closer cooperative ties between the region's customs services.

Seventeenth meeting of national customs directors of Latin America, Spain and Portugal

The seventeenth Meeting of National Customs Directors of Latin America, Spain and Portugal was held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia from 27 to 31 January 1997. The meeting was attended by representatives from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela. Observers from Australia, France, Japan and the United States were also present. Representatives of the following international organizations also attended the meeting: Association of Customs Agents of Uruguay, International Association of Professional Customs Agents (ASAPRA), Latin American Integration Organization (LAIA), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Latin American Convention of Courier Enterprises (CLADEC), Central American Institute of Business Administration (INCAE), Board of the Cartagena Agreement (JUNAC), Organization of American States (OAS), World Customs Organization (WCO), and Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal (PUASP).

Twentieth meeting of national customs directors of Latin America, Portugal and Spain

The twentieth Meeting of National Customs Directors of Latin America, Spain and Portugal was held from 26 to 29 October 1999 in Cancún, Quinta Roo, Mexico. Working groups discussed issues relating to control, harmonization of customs procedures, strategic alliances for combating commercial fraud, integrity and the impact of the year 2000 computer problem on customs services. At the plenary meeting of this session, agreement was reached on 30 points.Uruguay, headquarters for the twenty-first meeting: The delegation of Uruguay's offer to host the twenty-first meeting in October 2000 was accepted.

How future trends may affect international cooperation in planning education : the case of Spain and Latin America

Despite the benefits for exc hanging experiences among planners at the global scale, the strong context dependency of urban planning creates in many instances significant difficulties to extrapolate experiences from one geographical context to the other. If progress is to be achieved in international cooperation programmes, differences and commonalities should be assessed before la unching any academic initiative. In that respect, this p aper makes a brief foresight exercise on how future trends and challenges, which may affect the urban pl anning field, should be taken into consideration according to two different contexts: Spain and Latin America. A segmentation matrix is used to expose a nd discuss the different effects of future trends on both contexts. Some tentative conclusions are drawn for the development of international educational programmes

Commentaries on the law of suretyship, and the rights and obligations of the parties thereto, and herein of obligations in solido, under the laws of England, Scotland, and other states of Europe, the British colonies, and United States of America, and on the conflict of those laws.

"List of continental authors cited": p. [xi]-xvi; "American authorities": p. [xvii]-xviii.

Present state of the Spanish colonies : including a particular report of Hispa�nola, or the Spanish part of Santo Domingo; with a general survey of the settlements on the south continent of America, as relates to history, trade, population, customs, manners, &c., with a concise statement of the sentiments of the people on their relative situation to the mother country, &c. /

Printer varies: "H. Bryer, Printer, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars, London."--Vol. I, p. 384; "C. Stower, Printer, Paternoster Row, London."-- Vol. II, p. 356.

Negro slavery, or, A view of some of the more prominent features of that state of society : as it exists in the United States of America and in the colonies of the West Indies, especially in Jamaica.

Mode of access: Internet.

Spain and Spanish America in the libraries of the University of California, a catalogue of books ...

Mode of access: Internet.

A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America : containing I. Some general account of ancient and modern colonies, the granting and settling of the British continent and West-India island colonies ... II. The Hudson's-Bay Company's lodges ... III. Newfoundland harbours and cod-fishery : IV. The province of L'Acadie or Nova Scotia ... V. The several grants ... united by a new charter in the present province of Massachesetts-Bay, commonly called New-England /

Cox,

Notes on the West Indies : written during the expedition under the command of the late General Sir Ralph Abercromby, including observations on the island of Barbadoes, and the settlements captured by the British troops, upon the coast of Guiana, likewise remarks relating to the creoles and slaves of the western colonies, and the Indians of South America, with occasional hints, regarding the seasoning, or yellow fever of hot climates /

Rich,

Lectures on ancient ethnography and geography, comprising Greece and her colonies, Epirus, Macedonia, Illyricum, Italy, Gaul, Spain, Britain, the north of Africa, etc.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Federal and State constitutions : colonial charters, and other organic laws of the states, territories, and colonies now or heretofore forming the United States of America. /

List of authorities: v. 1, p. xv-xxxv.

English colonies in America ... /

Includes index.

Chile of to-day; its commerce, its production and its resources ... detailed information about the commerce of Chile with all the countries in the world, and especially with the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, South and Central America, etc.

Mode of access: Internet.