10th century: Believed appearance of a customs service in Kievan Rus.
16th century: The appearance of ‘customs charters.’ These were legislative acts by the state of Muscovy involving forced selection of members of the merchant class as ‘customs heads.’
1649: Passing of the Sobornoye Ulozheniye, a legal code forbidding trade by foreigners on the territory of Russia, excluding Arkhangelsk.
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