International Customs

ABUJA: The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, Lagos, has carried out 482 seizures valued at...

Brazil racks up trade deficit of $5.066b in April

BRASILIA: Brazil's trade balance posted a surplus of $491 million in April, although over the first four months of this...

Brazil, South Africa customs sentence 10 Namibian women smugglers to jail

BRASILIA: At least 10 Namibian women are currently imprisoned in South Africa and Brazil for drug trafficking, police spokesperson Edwin...

Brazil aluminium exports rises by 47.5% in April

BRASÍLIA: Brazil’s export volumes of unwrought aluminium were up by 47.5% year-on-year in April, according to preliminary figures from the...

Mexico crude oil exports, output declined in March

MEXICO CITY: Crude oil exports and output fell in March for Mexican oil company Pemex, just as the state-run producer...

US increases import of mangos from Mexico

NEW YORK: The volume of mangos imported from Mexico has outpaced the rate at which the fruit made its way...

Mexico drug cartel attack creats problem for Canadian tourists

TORONTO: Canada’s embassy in Mexico has issued a warning to tourists following a wave of recent attacks by a drug...

US customs find 3 pounds meth hidden in gaming system

NOGALES: Customs and Border Protection officers in Nogales found more than 3 pounds of meth hidden inside a gaming system...

Telecom Argentina announces Net Income of P$1,041m for 1Q 2015

BUENOS AIRES: Telecom Argentina ('Telecom') - (NYSE: TEO; BASE: TECO2), one of Argentina's leading telecommunications companies, announced today a Net...

Argentina soyoil shipments slowed by labor wage strike

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina soyoil shipments were slowed on Tuesday by the start of a wage strike by a union representing...

Argentina traders dread angry calls in govt’s perplexing peso market

BUENOS AIRES: Currency trading in Argentina is like nowhere else in the world, a trying process that involves Excel spreadsheets,...

Argentina-Brazil bilateral trade stalls at $30b for six years

BUENOS AIRES: Bilateral trade between Mercosur main partners Argentina and Brazil, has stalled at an annual 30bn dollars during the...

US customs removes Salvadoran man convicted for homicide

SAN SALVADOR: A 39-year-old Salvadoran man convicted for homicide in his home country was removed to El Salvador by U.S....

Hungarian projects economic growth at 3.1% in 2015

BUDAPEST: The state secretary for budgetary affairs told television channel M1 that the Hungarian government has raised this year’s economic...

Hungary’s OTP bank to buy a small bank in another country

BUDAPEST: OTP Bank will acquire a small bank “within two months”, chairman-CEO Sándor Csányi said in an interview with VS.hu....

Hungary posts €848 million trade surplus in February 2015

BUDAPEST: Hungary had €848 million trade surplus in February 2015, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said in a second reading...

Polish banks to loosen lending criteria in Q2 of 2015

WARSAW: A survey on the credit market situation carried out by the central bank NBP showed the Polish banks expect...

Spanish bank recovers only 5 percent of €51.3b

MADRID: Spain has recovered only five percent of €51.3 billion ($57.2 billion) of state aid given to the country's banking...

Spanish Jobless claims decline in April by 118,923 to 4.33m from March

MADRID: The third straight month of falling unemployment, jobless claims declined in April by 118,923 to 4.33 million from March....

Spanish Customs launches 2 boats to counter smuggling activities