International Customs

HAVANA: Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, recently held a hearing on opportunities and challenges for...

Cuba wants greater CARICOM market access but region slow to act

HAVANA: For more than a decade now, Cuba and the 15-nation Caribbean trade group have been trying to refine a...

Japanese business interest in Cuba to intensify due to restoring US-Cuban relations

HAVANA: Japanese business interest in Cuba is likely to intensify because of the thaw in US-Cuban relations, Japan's foreign minister...

Argentina port strike likely to raise inflation rate

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s main grains port of Rosario was paralyzed by an open-ended wage strike by boat captains needed to...

Nigeria customs seizes goods worth N294m, 36 suspects Arrested

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

19 Nigerians attempt shipping drugs to Asia in spite Indonesian execution

ABUJA: The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has said it saved 20 people from the death penalty in Asia by...

Nigeria-India crude oil trade surges by 2.5% to $16.98b

ABUJA: Bilateral trade between India and Nigeria between 2013 and 2014 increased by 2.5 per cent to $16.98 billion, mainly...

Jamaica announces strengthening trade ties with Cuba

HAVANA: The Jamaican government announced the strengthening of trade relations with Cuba and Costa Rica through a pair of bilateral...

Jamaican gas station owners launches their own marketing company FESCO

KINGSTON: Five gas station owners have banded together to form their own marketing company and retail chain, which is already...

Brazil plans to address farm subsidies concerns with U.S

BRASILIA: After finally turning the page on a dispute over spying that hampered attempts to deepen trade ties, Brazil and...

Brazilian pig iron export prices slashes for May negotiations

BRASÍLIA: Brazilian pig iron export prices slipped again for May negotiations amid a dearth of overseas demand, sources said. Bids,...

Canada, US plan rail for transporting crude oil

NEW YORK: Canadian and U.S. regulators will require railways to transition to tougher tank cars and bring in new braking...

Canada customs seizes variety of prohibited items this year: officials

OTTAWA: Canada Border Services Agency staff seized a variety of prohibited items so far this year, including butterfly knives, brass...

1% population of US, Canada, Uruguay consuming smuggled cocaine: report

WASHINGTON: The consumption of cocaine powder in North America is concentrated in the United States and Canada, and in Chile...

Prices of dwellings fall 0.2% in Q1 of 2015

HELSINKI: The Prices of old dwellings in housing companies went down by 0.2 per cent in the whole country in...

Hungarian Raiffeisen to close its 45 branches, to lay off 15% of its workforce

BUDAPEST: The Austrian CEO Heinz Wiedner reportedly told a press conference in Budapest today that the company would lay off...

Competition office fines HUF 1.6m to dietary supplement manufacturer

BUDAPEST: Hungaryʼs Competition Office (GVH) fined dietary supplement manufacturer Dr. Fachet Egészségügyi és Szolgáltató HUF 1.6 million on charges of...

Hungary’s Unemployment rate down by 0.5% YoY as 4.1m people work in country

BUDAPEST: The Central Statistical Office (KSH) shows that the 3-month rolling jobless rate was 7.8% in January-March, up from 7.7%...

South African Amplats plan to retrench 474, as a part of destructing

CAPE TOWN: Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) is to retrench 474 workers as part of a restructuring plan. The company first...

Outsourcing affects over 1,000 Telekom’s employees in South Africa