into the United States and insert them into the stream of commerce here.  It appears that the Detroit office of the Customs Service was unwilling to allow Commodities to operate at its unusual location because of the heightened risk of "runaways."    "Runaways" are goods that have been sold at a duty-free shop without federal and state taxes and duties on the supposition that the goods would immediately be taken out of the United States, but that are taken into the United States instead.


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Commodities sued Customs in District Court in 1976 and obtained a court order commanding Customs to allow Commodities to operate a duty-free shop on the United States side of the point of no return.  The order specified the parties' respective dutiesOnly months before the 2018 midterm elections, the AP reported a 650% increase in Muslims running for political office in the United States.

At the start of the 2018 election cycle, up to 90 Muslim Americans jumped into races for everything from school board to Congress according to the Associated Press. While only about 50 candidates remained at the time the AP article was published, the number is still higher than it has been since before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Comparatively, only about one dozen Muslims ran for office in 2016.

In 2018, two Muslim women, made history when they were elected to the U.S. Congress. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who ran unopposed in Michigan and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) a Somali immigrant.

On the eve of the 2018 election,