Customs Regimes and the Materiality of Global Mobility

Governing the Port of Rotterdam

Bibliographic Data

ID3759580
AuthorsB Chalfin (0000-0001-9748-4715, University of Florida, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume50
Issue12
Pages1610-1630
Publication date2007-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764207302471
OpenAlexW1975781669
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited35

Focusing on customs operations at the Port of Rotterdam, this essay investigates the problematic of commercial governance at a historical moment characterized by the unprecedented volume and velocity of cross-border and transoceanic trade and an increasingly globalized security mandate. Although Netherlands Customs officers, facilities, and regulatory authority are visibly evident at the Port of Rotterdam, Customs operates largely through forms of indirect control rather than direct oversight. These trends reflect the influence of the World Trade Organization and World Customs Organization as well as International Maritime Organization and U.S. Customs and Border Protection provisions. They also belie a strongly neoliberal move toward minimal or consolidated government, backed up when necessary by security. They equally entail processes of private government involving the delegation of responsibilities to private authorities, the ceding of commercial privilege to select firms, and dependence on information and management models from the private sector

Business · Government (linguistics) · International trade · Mandate · Materiality (auditing) · Political science · Port (circuit theory) · Private sector · Economic Zones and Regional Development · Engineering · Law · Maritime Security and History · Public Administration · World Trade Organization Law

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