US customs rescues toddlers, thwarts maritime smuggling attempt
MIAMI: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) personnel from the Key Largo Marine Unit interdicted...
US Customs offers travel tips for upcoming holiday travel period
EL PASO: U.S. Customs and Border Protection is reminding international travelers planning to cross the border for the upcoming Christmas...
US Customs busts up cocaine smuggling attempt at El Paso port
EL PASO: U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the El Paso port of entry alertly made a 15-pound...
Mexico probes China, Taiwan cold-rolled steel imports
MEXICO CITY: Mexico's Economy Ministry is launching an anti-dumping investigation into imports of cold-rolled flat steel from China and Taiwan,...
China allows wheat imports from 4 Russian regions
MOSCOW: Russia and China signed protocols on phytosanitary regulations for imports of Russian agricultural products to China. "As to the...
Philippine to challenge ban on GM imports
MANILA: The Philippine government will challenge a ban on imports of genetically modified products ordered by the country's top court,...
US, India trade to discuss WTO issues
NEW YORK: Just a day before the end of the WTO Ministerial conference, trade ministers of India and the US...
Africa: Trade deals must be prepared to support global action to save climate
CAPE TOWN: Two decades ago, the birth of the World Trade Organisation rang alarm bells in the environmental community. Would...
Russia suspends trade zone with Ukraine in tit-for-tat escalation
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin has ordered the suspension of Russia’s free trade zone with Ukraine, following up on threats that Kiev’s...
Shipping Company signs deal for $100m port
ROME: The Mediterranean Shipping Company committed to the construction of a $100m private island cruise port, set to get underway...
Port Authority poised to lead $14b Gateway Tunnel Project
TRENTON: The Port Authority is poised to take a lead role in the multiagency effort to build a new rail...
20,000 hoverboards coming via single UK port ruled illegal
NEW YORK: Trading Standards officers are finding it impossible to cope with the tens of thousands of illegal or dangerous...
India, Iran trying to seal Chabahar port deal by January
NEW DELHI: India and Iran are trying to iron out irritants and conclude contract by January for the expansion project...
New Jersey authorities seize 610 heroin packets in bust
PATERSON: Narcotics detectives seized more than 600 glassine packets of heroin during a drug bust that began in the city’s...
UK seizes 32,000 dangerous hoverboards
LONDON: The UK government has seized over 32,000 dangerous hoverboards out of 38,800 that have been inspected at UK entry...
US border agents discover $220K in meth hidden car’s fuel tank
NEW YORK: Agents with the El Centro Sector Border Patrol have arrested a 21-year-old man, a Mexican citizen, after discovering...
Smuggling, counterfeits resulted in Rs 39,239 crore loss to India
BENGALURU: Smuggling and counterfeiting of goods in India has cost an estimated loss of Rs39,239 crore to government in 2014,...
Singapore customs impounds shipment of smuggled elephant tusks
SINGAPORE: The customs authorities have intercepted a massive half-ton illegal shipment of elephant tusks going through Singapore, it said in...
Former cruise ship employee guilty of smuggling cocaine
TAMPA: A man who was part of a group of cruise ship employees who smuggled cocaine into Tampa from Honduras...
Italian woman arrested for ‘running mafia gang’s cocaine smuggling network
ROME: Italian police have arrested a woman who is accused of taking over the infamous Cosa Nostra mafia after her...
