Abstract
This chapter describes the different aspects of Western European customs union. The European Customs Union Study Group, which had recommended, inter alia, the introduction of a system of customs valuation and uniform tariffs was also responsible for setting up the Customs Cooperation Council in Brussels in 1950. The Councils main task was the harmonization of the European tariff system—an important one, as harmonization is one of the means of moving toward free trade by forming an economic association in which tariffs are essentially of no further significance. Franco-Italian customs union aimed at creating a tariff union and, eventually, an economic union and it was hoped that other European states would adhere to the treaty, thus opening the way for a uniform European system. The experiment was probably made too soon, and therefore fell victim to economic problems created by the war. The French parliament rejected the project which was finally abandoned at the Conference of Santa Margherita in 1951.
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