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customs agency

authority or agency that is responsible for tariff collection and control of movement of goods
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Summary

customs agency ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,427 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: customs control[2]
  • Item operated: Openbaar Entrepot, Leuven[3]
  • Subclass of: specialist law enforcement agency[4], revenue authority[5]
  • Commons category: Customs services[6]
  • Industry: trade[7]
  • Unicode character: 🛃[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Customs services[9]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: government=customs[10]
  • Described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[13]
  • Topic has template: Template:Customs services[14]
  • Different from: Dogana[15]
  • Practiced by: customs officer[16]
  • P14692: Big Brother Brasil 13[17]

Why It Matters

customs agency has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Alois Hitler Armenian Customs Service Bundeszollverwaltung taula Zakat, Tax, and Customs Authority

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 23d ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nhk one news topic id → E0000000664
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Nhk one news topic id: E0000000664"
  2. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Big Brother Brasil 13
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → ESD
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q297400, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0010057-celni-organy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0010057-celni-organy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
  5. 23w ago · GeertivpBot bot · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Item operated → Openbaar Entrepot, Leuven
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Item operated: Openbaar Entrepot, Leuven, #pwb Copy label Add beheert (P121)"
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