International Customs
Pakistan’s first in-depth newspaper that presents balanced news reports, analysis and reviews regarding Customs, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and Sales/Income Tax Departments beside covering import and export sectors comprehensively. Up-to-the-minute news bulletins regarding Customs and FBR departments are also displayed regularly on both website and face book for the interest of common people
Nigeria lifts embargo on importation of textiles
LAGOS: The Nigerian government has lifted the embargo on the import of textile materials into the country, according to media...
Canada to defend supply management for dairy, poultry while pursuing trade deals: Harper
OTTAWA: Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada will defend its supply management system for dairy and poultry while still pursuing...
India’s oil import to fall 21.7% to $88b during current fiscal year
NEW DELHI: India's crude oil import bill is likely to fall by 21.7 per cent this fiscal to US$ 88...
Kenya’s president contributes $10m bailout to national sugar producer
NAIROBI: Kenya's president handed 1 billion shillings ($10 million) to cash-strapped Mumias Sugar as part of a state bailout and...
US customs arrests 2 men for smuggling drugs worth of $452K
TUCSON: U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrested two alleged smugglers with a combined $452,000 worth of drugs in separate...
Argentina, Cuba reaffirm to improve bilateral relations, promote cooperation projects
HAVANA: Hector Timerman, Argentine Foreign Minister, and Marcelino Medina, Cuba’s first deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, reaffirmed mutual support to...
Alabama-based Tractor Company seeks to build assembly plant in Cuba
WASHINGTON: Two U.S. businessmen are trying to become the first Americans to set up a manufacturing operation in Cuba in...
Kenya’s Lake Turkana Wind Power project aims to start supplying Sept. 2016
NAIROBI: Kenya's Lake Turkana Wind Power project aims to start supplying some electricity as early as September 2016, once a...
Qatar’s Ezdan Group wins Forbes’ award
DOHA: Ezdan Holding Group has won Forbes magazine’s coveted “best Qatari company for diversified investments” title. At the award ceremony,...
US Airbnb aims to expand its operations in Cuba
NEW YORK: Online home-rental service Airbnb says it is exploring a significant expansion of its operations in Cuba two months...
Indonesia becomes international drug market due to rise of smuggling
JAKARTA: The Jakarta Police said here the other day that Indonesia had turned into an international drug market as seen...
Canadian exports decline as Mexican auto industry strengthen
OTTAWA: Americans love their cars, and U.S. light vehicle sales have climbed in the past few years, bouncing back to...
Cuba spends $1.6m on detention, housing and repatriation of migrants in 2014
HAVANA: The government has confirmed that during 2014 it spent over $1.6 million on the detention, housing and repatriation of...
Mexico’s state oil company contained oil, gas leak
MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) contained an oil and gas leak that appears to have sparked...
US Sen. Pat Roberts urges Congress to act quickly in repealing labelling
WASHINGTON: Sounding a bleak tone, U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts told a Senate committee that Congress must act quickly in repealing...
Audit smokes out U.S. $11m ZINARA fraud in Zimbabwe
HARARE: Government could have been prejudiced of over $11 million after the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration failed to deduct $7,5...
$335m trade surplus shows steep drop in Argentinean exports
BUENOS AIRES: A drop in exports has led to the trade balance contracting 72.4 percent in May compared to the...
Taiwan’s export drops 5.9% annually to $35.79b last month
TAIPEI: Cargo vessels are docked at port yesterday. The Ministry of Economic Affairs yesterday announced that the value of Taiwan’s...
Criminal groups create synthetic drugs, threatening to smuggle them into Mexico
MEXICO CITY: Criminal groups created new synthetic drugs that simulate the effects of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine, and are threatening...
US signs loan deal to build 20-megawatt photovoltaic facility in Jamaica
KINGSTON: The U.S. government's development finance institution has signed an agreement with a solar energy company to support a 20-megawatt...
