International Customs

SAO PAULO: Imports of liquefied natural gas to Brazil rose 28% during 2014, totaling 13,472,255 cubic meters, up from 10,514,012...

SEOUL: South Korea’s imports of iron and steel products from China increased 34.9 percent year-on-year to 13.4 million tonnes last...

WASHINGTON: US Border Patrol agents from the Calexico Station seized a 2006 Chevy Suburban and arrested seven individuals on Tuesday...

KATHMANDU: Nepal police arrested media industrialist Himal Rai, pulisher of Action Times Weekly and owner of Heart FM, on the...

MOSCOW: The agreement aimed at developing aspects of cooperation and work jointly to combat smuggling and irregularities that harm the...

KABUL: Afghan counternarcotics department seized at least three tonnes of drugs and set ablaze in central Parwan province, said the...

BERLIN: German consumers feel they are experiencing deflation for the first time since the height of the global financial crisis...

ANKARA:  The dollar-euro parity, which is expected to hit an all-time law, is causing anxiety among exporters. According to the...

BANGKOK:  Thailand joined the UNODC-WCO Container Control Program and became the first country in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...

NEW YORK:  Smuggler found a new way of smuggling drugs by remote controlled devices. Tijuana Municipal police seized a broken...

MUSCAT: Oman government is in the process of establishing a mega dairy project with a sizeable capital investment of OMR100...

MUSCAT: The value of trade between Dubai and Oman reached AED16bn during the first nine months of 2014, according to...

DUBLIN: Irish home property price grew 15% in the year to September 2014, compared to a euro zone average of...

MOSCOW:  Russian ministers presented President Vladimir Putin with a 1.375 trillion rouble ($21 billion) anti-crisis plan including 250 billion roubles...

MELBOURNE:  Six people some with alleged links to the Comancheros outlaw motorcycle gang - have been arrested following this morning’s...

ROME: The Italian government said police had seized more than 5,000 ancient artefacts in a record 45-million-euro haul after dismantling...

RANGOON:  Minister of Commerce Win Myint has said that the volume of goods being smuggled across Burma’s borders with China...

SAN YSIDRO: Drug smugglers have reached new heights. An overnight crash of a drone just south of the border has...

COLOMBO: World Cup winning Sri Lankan Cricket hero Arjuna Ranatunga has been nominated the country’s ports and shipping minister following...

TEXAS:  US Customs and Border Protection officers at the Brownsville Port of Entry intercepted two loads of alleged narcotics. CBP...