Year: 2015

SINGAPORE: An illegal shipment of elephant tusks and pangolin scales – worth an estimated S$1.3 million – was seized by ...

NAIROBI: The Kenya Revenue Authority will install a new customs software early next year to replace the faulty Simba system. ...

GREENVILLE: It's been 4 years in the works, but the new U.S. Customs Office puts the "international" in the recently ...

HONG KONG: Untaxed European Union-made cigarettes worth HK$52 million have been confiscated in Hong Kong during a joint operation between ...

MOSCOW: The Russian presidential decree to suspend the implementation of the Commonwealth of Independent States free trade deal in regard ...

DUBAI: Authorities in the UAE collect four per cent customs duty from traders. This will be now transferred to the ...

HAMILTON: A 22-year-old Hamilton man has been sentenced to two years and seven months’ imprisonment for importing and possessing drugs. ...

KARACHI: Pakistan Customs on Wednesday seized more than one kilogram of cocaine from a Nigerian national at Karachi airport. Officials ...

RIYADH: The custom officials at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah have foiled an attempt to smuggle cocaine into ...

SINGAPORE: A key member of a contraband cigarette smuggling syndicate has been sentenced to five years in jail for his ...

NEW DELHI: Industry body Indian Steel Association (ISA) has approached the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) alleging undervaluation ...

ABUJA: The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Colonel Hameed Ali (rtd), on Thursday said 66 officers found to be ...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong Customs detected two suspected cases of distributing illicit cigarettes at public housing estates. A total of ...

NEW DELHI: The Customs Department scored a major success Wednesday when it foiled an attempt by an Indian National to ...

CHENNAI: A CBI team, consisting of 12 members, today raided the airport here in connection with alleged irregularities over smuggled ...

WELLINGTON: Fifteen packets of the drug, worth around $9 million, were carefully concealed to try to avoid detection in a ...

ABUJA: Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) now under intense pressure to expand collections and rev up government revenues severely bashed by ...

TAIPEI: There were 25,572 projectors shipped in the Taiwan market during the third quarter of 2015, increasing 7.7% on quarter ...

WASHINGTON: According to Digitimes Research, smartphone shipments for the third quarter of 2015 rose 7.7% year-over-year during the period. That ...

KIEV: Ukraine has imposed a moratorium on the $3 billion Russian debt repayment, said the country’s Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk ...