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This paper is organized as follows. In chapter two, Samson Bilangna and Marcellin Djeuwo from the Cameroon customs administration present the history and the outcomes of the performance measurement policy launched by their administra-tion: the General Directorate of Customs signed 'performance contracts' with the frontline customs officers in 2010 and with some importers in 2011. In chapter three, Jose-Maria Munoz, an anthropologist, offers a complementary view of the introduction of figures in the Cameroon tax administration. The fourth chapter ends the book's first part, which focuses on performance measurement. Xavier Pascual from the French customs administration describes the system implemented by his administration to measure the collective performance of customs units and bureaus. In chapter five, Anne-Marie Geourjon and Bertrand Laporte, who are both economists, and Ousmane Coundoul and Massene Gadiaga, who are from the Senegalese customs administration, present the use of data mining to select imports for inspection. This project is being developed in Senegal and embodies the concept of risk analysis. Sharing the same global aim to make controls more efficient, economists Gael Raballand and Guillermo Arenas from the World Bank and anthropologist Thomas Cantens from the World Customs Organization suggest, in chapter six, using mirror statistics to detect potentially fraudulent import flows. Mirror statistics calculate the gaps of foreign trade statistics between two trading partner countries. To conclude the second part on the integration of measurement in information systems, Soyoung Yang from the Korea Customs Service (KCS), in chapter eight, offers a case study on KCS's implementation of a single window system. With respect to risk analysis, the concept of single window is widespread in the trade and customs environments, but few concrete achievements have been presented and analyzed.

Refers to No. 6 and reviews position summarized in various telegrams regarding Polish Customs Inspectors: describes latest incident when Polish Customs Inspector charged with abduction: transmits account of series of reprisals connected with house property owned by Danzigers in Poland and by Poles in Danzig.

The second half of the eighteenth century was a period of dynamic change in many fields of governance in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. One of the aims of the reformers was to strengthen the state’s economy and to increase the revenue of the Treasury. In this context, reform of the customs (1764) system was of particular importance as it was meant to ensure efficient collection of customs duties. This article aims to answer the question of how the customs and border control infrastructure was created and developed, by focusing on the borderland between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Prussia over a period of several decades (1760s-1790s). Comprehensive and detailed reports (1769, 1788, 1793) on the border control infrastructure reflect the condition of the customs system, as well as the inspectors’ recommendations for how it could be improved. Sources such as these are not widely used in historiography, and until now there have been no attempts to compare different descriptions of the condition of the customs system. Analysing these sources allowed us to map, highlight and assess the changes to the border control infrastructure. In this article, GIS (Geographic Information System) was used as one of the analytical tools to demonstrate the interaction between border control infrastructure entities and the space of the Lithuanian-Prussian borderland. Results show that the that the development of the border control infrastructure was intensive, not extensive. It is evident that officials, even though they were well aware of illegal activities, rationally evaluated the cost-benefit ratio to the state’s resources and the potential for possible losses. The selected research approach can be applied to study other borderlands and reveals just how significant the spatial localisation of written source data can be in borderland research.